He should be fired.....and he had a big hand blowing the series vs SF Giants last year in a pivotal game with his idiotic pitching changes/bullpen use.
Letting Papelbon on the mound after he choked out Harper put a nice red bow on his incompetent handling of that ball club.
...yeah, he may have been teetering on getting fired before but that really sealed his fate, IMO. ...the GM shouldn't get a pass either...his contractual moves are almost as mind boggling as Cashman's...other than Harper they don't have much on offense...and signing Scherzer to that insane contract may hamstring them down the road...they also have some other players that will have to be paid...Zimmerman/Strasburg, for example.
I loved him as a player & probably would have been the 1st to break Maris HR record had it not been for the strike (1994) but as a manager he was way out of his league so this comes as no surprise.
His firing was predicted bout half way through the season along with several others. One surprise firing in reverse was Ausmas,.
...I was talking about Jordan Zimmerman, the pitcher...he's a FA next year. They probably could/should have locked him up before signing Scherzer.
this entire Team is a mess, less Harper, and Yep, Zim should of been tied up, before Max, IMO...... Werth is a Werth-less POS...... His MLB Photo looks like it was obtained via Mugshots.com On the field Werth, with his hair all over his face, looks more like a Charlie Manson Clan Member, than a ball player.....over payed, and can't play to save his ass.....! In 05, at Chavez Ravine, as Bum OF'r, .... Werth was often mis-judging fly balls, over his head, in front of him, laterally, and was a defensive/offensive joke, still is IMO......2005: 395 AB's - 114 Strikeouts.... 99 RBI's in a year his season high, followed by 85, then downstairs......
Scherzer has always hit me as a talented "dig me" rather than a team player. Granted he looked good with his no hitters but he also tanked some games that Washington Needed. On that team Harper was the man in '15, guy blossomed into a damn fine player.
As Code commented in the other thread enough of this already. We're not going to have another stretch where every thread turns into the same arguing.
Scherzer will earn $35M per over his last 3 years, ages 35 through 37 Werth is due $21M in 2016 & $21M in 2017. He'll be 37 in May & this past year his numbers were 12/42/221 Zimmerman is due $78M over the next 5 years & has missed 168 games over the last 2 seasons.
so the coach is responsible for what the players do or don't do? this is not a statement being made to encite, but to discuss, lets be constructive, not destructive
i clearly see what the players aren't doing, how come you don't see what the other most import factor of the game is not doing to win a game? do you really believe this team should win every game by the long ball?
...how come you don't see that using your logic, if your coach had only worked with you a little more...you might have been something?
