Cubs Manager Search (Ross to be hired - Kaplan)

[Transmogrified Tiger]

I'm not very impressed with Roberts the tactician(although admittedly that's in the playoffs which are a slightly different animal), but if I'm going to live up to my words about caring the most about player development, I can't ignore that the Dodgers have been the absolute gold standard at it. Yes they've had plenty of top prospects, but they've all hit, and they also have been able to resurrect careers too(Muncy, Turner, Hill, Morrow, etc)

 

To clarify, we never meant to impute any type of competence to Dave Roberts' managerial abilities. TT Inc apologizes for the error and the person responsible has been sacked.

[champaignchris]

I'm not very impressed with Roberts the tactician(although admittedly that's in the playoffs which are a slightly different animal), but if I'm going to live up to my words about caring the most about player development, I can't ignore that the Dodgers have been the absolute gold standard at it. Yes they've had plenty of top prospects, but they've all hit, and they also have been able to resurrect careers too(Muncy, Turner, Hill, Morrow, etc)

 

To clarify, we never meant to impute any type of competence to Dave Roberts' managerial abilities. TT Inc apologizes for the error and the person responsible has been sacked.

 

Did Roberts just Grady Little himself out of a job?

[cl smooth]

And now Gabe Kapler is available. Phillies just fired him.

[GaryWoods]

And now Gabe Kapler is available. Phillies just fired him.

 

I'd prefer Gabe Kaplan.

[JennieGarthAlgar]

Bet the Phillies hire Girardi

[Cubswin11]

Bet the Phillies hire Girardi

I hope he ends up there or on the Mets

[Cubswin11]

Ross is interviewing today, fwiw

[UMFan83]

Ross is interviewing today, fwiw

 

Going to be interesting to see the teamwide mutiny if Ross gets hired. No one wants to have that horsefeathers anywhere near the team on a regular basis again.

 

#wherehaveyougoneMarinersRevenge

[HawkeTrackler]

Ross is interviewing today, fwiw

 

Going to be interesting to see the teamwide mutiny if Ross gets hired. No one wants to have that horsefeathers anywhere near the team on a regular basis again.

 

#wherehaveyougoneMarinersRevenge

 

 

I feel like I'm missing something here.

[Brian]

Ross is interviewing today, fwiw

 

Going to be interesting to see the teamwide mutiny if Ross gets hired. No one wants to have that horsefeathers anywhere near the team on a regular basis again.

 

#wherehaveyougoneMarinersRevenge

 

 

I feel like I'm missing something here.

 

viewtopic.php?f=2&t=1004&p=153045#p153045

 

and the posts around that one

[Cubswin11]

 

Going to be interesting to see the teamwide mutiny if Ross gets hired. No one wants to have that horsefeathers anywhere near the team on a regular basis again.

 

#wherehaveyougoneMarinersRevenge

 

 

I feel like I'm missing something here.

 

viewtopic.php?f=2&t=1004&p=153045#p153045

 

and the posts around that one

That thread and the Bums anthology should be required reading before anyone posts on here

[Irrelevant Dude]

Happy for Dave Martinez.

Me too. Even though he only played with the Cubs for a few years, he was one of my favorite players as a kid. I thought, as most did, that he was toast earlier this season. I'm really glad the Nationals stuck with him and turned things around. It also provides a future counter-argument to the "fire the manager to give the team a spark" school of thought.

[jersey cubs fan]

 

 

I feel like I'm missing something here.

 

viewtopic.php?f=2&t=1004&p=153045#p153045

 

and the posts around that one

That thread and the Bums anthology should be required reading before anyone posts on here

Pretty sure that Raisin Bran box was never even opened. Probably threw it away 6 months later.

[jersey cubs fan]

Happy for Dave Martinez.

Me too. Even though he only played with the Cubs for a few years, he was one of my favorite players as a kid. I thought, as most did, that he was toast earlier this season. I'm really glad the Nationals stuck with him and turned things around. It also provides a future counter-argument to the "fire the manager to give the team a spark" school of thought.

"Fire the manager to give the team a spark" is more of a thing you do with guy who has been around a while and isn't getting the same production as before. It wouldn't have been the issue with a guy after one year. That's more of a "we've made a huge mistake" move.

[Sammy Sofa]

I still wish "raisin brain" had taken off as an insult. I'm weirdly (lamely) proud to have been part of this 1-2-3-4-5 series of spectacular body blows:

 

http://www.northsidebaseball.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=1004&p=153045#p153103

 

Also:

 

http://www.northsidebaseball.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=1004&start=125#p154178

[Brian]

Hopefully they use this jersey for his intro presser

 

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Hope he's paying attention to the weather forecast

[Backtobanks]

Another candidate?

 

Third base coach Fredi Gonzalez has informed the Marlins that he has decided to “explore other options,”

[Cubswin11]

[Omar]

Ozzie Guillén is available.

[Sammys Boombox]

I’m just going to go on the record and say that I think David Ross is a recipe for disaster. I’m very opposed.

[UK]

I’m just going to go on the record and say that I think David Ross is a recipe for disaster. I’m very opposed.

 

If managers had a significant impact I would agree but it would likely be a marginal at best impact between him and someone better.

 

With that said, he's definitely not choice #1.

[David]

I’m just going to go on the record and say that I think David Ross is a recipe for disaster. I’m very opposed.

 

That's a weirdly strong stance.

 

Why?

[jersey cubs fan]

I have to say, as ridiculous as the theory is, I really would love to see a situation where Lester is openly defying Ross, refusing to come out of games, and picking and choosing his starting dates. Then Bryant can go all Roger Dorn pointing out that his contract states he doesn't need to play the outfield and never has to field bunts. Rizzo shows up drunk every day and is peer pressuring Ross into drinking with him in the clubhouse and Ross goes on to have a legendary press conference where he spills the beans about being in over his head and can't stand the front office and thinks half the team sucks.

[David]

Not that it's necessarily causal, but most of the best teams in baseball have a younger front office puppet with limited experience (or, initially, none) managing them. I'm not sure I see what can be so disastrous.