Girardi is out as Marlins Manager

[oyhstah crachah]

Joe Girardi won't return to the Fish next year, mostly due to clashes with management.

The Marlins already have identified possible replacements for Girardi, the report said, including a trio of third base coaches: Fredi Gonzalez (Atlanta), Joey Cora (Chicago White Sox (http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/clubhouse?team=cha)) and Manny Acta (New York Mets (http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/clubhouse?team=nym)).

http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=2598362

[McCarroll21]

Gahh! I wish we could hire him as a coach with the deal to replace Bobby when he leaves. He'll most likely go to the Cubs though.

[Jsh1284]

Girardi is a great leader and I'd like to bring him into the Braves orginization if possible. Its totally ludacris for them to fire Joe because of an Owner's beef. Look what he did with their team!

[oyhstah crachah]

Yeah, the Marlins are messed up... Under no circumstances should you fire a first year coach who has done that good of a job with what they gave him.

[argh]

Good for the Marlins, Girardi is a moron and is fairly incompetant. He's getting a lot of praise for the Marlins successes when it was Beinfest who put together that team.




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http://www.sun-sentinel.com/sports/sfl-hyde27aug27,0,4546043.column?coll=sfla-sports-front

Loria, in fact, might have to stand in line next time he wants to shout at him. Girardi's sin, according to two Marlins sources, isn't that he has been wrong. Everyone's wrong at times. But he has been loud, stubborn wrong.

Right from spring, there have been clashes over future-looking questions in a season in which the future is primary.

For instance, back in spring training, according to two Marlins sources, here's some changes Girardi pushed for: Miguel Cabrera from third to first base; Dan Uggla not at second base but in left field; Josh Willingham at catcher, not Miguel Olivo; Alfredo Amezaga might not have made the team; and young pitchers like Ricky Nolasco and Josh Johnson would have started in the minor leagues.

Whew.

Pick your own reason to worry what might have been.

So you can understand, as Girardi pushed against moves the front office spent a thorny off-season making, how a perfect-storm of problems was brewing. Loria's shouting match with Girardi was to some extent just the boiling point of that.

[hawki]

argh, no one put together the team...they traded everyone and let a lot of young guys play

it was addition by subtraction, not addition by addition

[BGarrett7]

argh, no one put together the team...they traded everyone and let a lot of young guys play

it was addition by subtraction, not addition by additionIndeed.

This team was supposed to be one of the worst in the history of the game when spring training started, no one argued that. We're talking about a team that could have possibly lost upwards of 120 games if things went as bad as they were believed to.

And here we are, with eight games left in the regular season, and this team has a very good chance of ending up at least right at or above .500 if they can finish the final week strong. That is absolutely insane.

Now, whether or not Girardi had a lot to do with that or not, honestly, we don't really know. But, the fact that this team was able to perform the way that they have and have overachieved to almost 40 more wins than they should have is definitely enough to warrant him being able to keep his job for at least one more season.

[vnodnarb]

this may not belong here so feel free to move it if you'd like;

but has anyone seen that freddi gonzalez may take a head coaching job somewhere else next season, ive heard florida and chicago?

[Jsh1284]

Moved:

Yeah vnod, Id hate to see him go ... and reports say a lot of guys in Miami don't want Fredi for some odd reason ... but he's gonna end up being a manager anyways. I'll just hate to see another one of our guys jump ship ... and then coach against us next year. :(

Reminds me of Ned Yost all over again.

[hotcorner33]

Gahh! I wish we could hire him as a coach with the deal to replace Bobby when he leaves. He'll most likely go to the Cubs though.

Oh yeah, it will never happen, though.