Lou to the Yanks?

[cheapseats]

Wasn't Girardi credited with alot of pitcher abuse during that season? My memory could be failing at my advanced age. Where did I leave my teeth?

 

Put Josh Johnson back in after a long rain delay.

[NCCubFan]

A team is allowed to trade players to another team for the rights to negotiate a contract with its manager?

 

Isn't that how Lou got to Tampa?

Yes. I believe it was Randy Winn who was traded for Lou's rights.

[BCVM22]

Yes. I believe it was Randy Winn who was traded for Lou's rights.

 

Randy Winn for Lou's rights and Antonio Perez.

[dew1679666265]

Depending on what the Yankees offered, I'd consider it. My biggest fear is that we'd replace Lou with Girardi.

 

Lou for somebody of good value and then hire Torre - that would be awesome, but likely wouldn't happen.

 

I like Lou a lot, but if the Yanks are willing to part with someone of significant value I'd trade him. Especially with Torre sitting in free agency.

[Roast]

 

(1)Piniella refuses to be accountable for a year in which it took him 3 months of the regular season to evaluate talent.

 

in-game management by Piniella was nothing short of abysmal this season. 2see Murton and Soto. Quady should be summarily dismissed. I was at the game last Saturday, and have witnessed his ineptitude all year.

 

players are more to blame for non-production, but contracts negate quick solutions.

 

3. you question the 2006 Marlins reference? look again at what Girardi accomplished with a cast of stand-ins that year. yes, they finished fourth, but that team was alive until the last week of the season.

 

i want Hendry gone.

i want Piniella gone.

i want Rothschild gone.

i want Kendall gone.

 

any other questions?

 

:lol:

 

1. At what point has he ever denied any responsibility for the teams performance? Give me one example.

 

2. People seriously need to stop blaming Lou for Soto. As soon as Soto came up, Lou started him and continued to start him down the stretch over the much more "veteren" predecessor. That's something that Dusty, and many other managers in baseball, would not do.

 

 

3. Stop making things up. The last time they were closer than TEN! games out of first place was April 30 of that season. As for the wild card, they finished ten games out. They were dead long before the last week.

 

So yes, I question your 2006 reference. There was probably a reason he got fired after only one season, and then did not get re-hired the following year.

 

EDIT: Oh, and as for the wildcard, the closest they got was 2 games back on September 11, the last day of their season high 9 game win streak. After which they quickly fell back apart.

[Backtobanks]

IF Torre leaves, Mattingly will be the manager.

[CubinNY]

Girardi is one of the sharpest baseball minds in the game, and a true leader who bleeds Blue.

 

see Marlins. Florida. 2006...

Hahahahahaha

[Roast]

Girardi is one of the sharpest baseball minds in the game, and a true leader who bleeds Blue.

 

see Marlins. Florida. 2006...

Hahahahahaha

 

No-No, don't you understand? Never being closer than 10 games out after APRIL THIRTIETH takes some serious talent.

[USSoccer]

Not only do the terms "True Leader" and "Bleeds Blue" mean nothing, but it takes something special to be fired after one season on the job. Such as destroying Josh Johnson's arm, for one thing.

[Pinktermite]

I find it funny that despite the success of the Cubs this year, there are those willing to trade Lou to the Yankees. This is just absurd. We finally have a manager willing to play rookies and one who will bat the guy that is hitting...

 

Girardi did okay with a pile of scraps at Florida. Both of you guys are probably a little wrong. He wasn't terrible, but he wasn't Casey Stengle either.

 

The Yankees aren't going to give us Cano or Cabrera for Lou. They'll just hire Mattingly or Brenly or even Tony LaRussa if he's available.

 

Let's be realistic here.

[dew1679666265]

I find it funny that despite the success of the Cubs this year, there are those willing to trade Lou to the Yankees. This is just absurd. We finally have a manager willing to play rookies and one who will bat the guy that is hitting...

 

Girardi did okay with a pile of scraps at Florida. Both of you guys are probably a little wrong. He wasn't terrible, but he wasn't Casey Stengle either.

 

The Yankees aren't going to give us Cano or Cabrera for Lou. They'll just hire Mattingly or Brenly or even Tony LaRussa if he's available.

 

Let's be realistic here.

 

The only way I'd even think about trading Lou is if the Yankees made it very much worth my while. It would take a Cano, Hughes, etc type for me to even consider it.

 

I have no issue whatsoever with keeping Lou though.

[Rob]

FWIW, the going price for Lou would probably be Melky Cabrera. Cano is too good to be included, but Melky fits the mold pretty nicely.

 

Then again, from everything I've read, he profiles to be a classic "tweener".

[DivineBovine]

Why is it assumed that Lou would even want the Yankee job. All you can really do is fail. Everyone expects you to win. I thought he liked the thought of winning with the Cubs.