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Maddon leaves Rays

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by Elliotte Friedman, Oct 24, 2014.

  1. Elliotte Friedman

    Elliotte Friedman Moderator Staff Member

    Buster Olney reports it. Rays have confirmed it.

    LA-bound?
     
  2. LongTimeListener

    LongTimeListener Well-Known Member

    Gotta be. That isn't a guy who wants out of baseball.
     
  3. Chef2

    Chef2 Well-Known Member

    I just posted it on other thread.....

    Mattingly prolly lining up moving vans right now.
     
  4. JackReacher

    JackReacher Well-Known Member

    Heyman says Maddon not considering LA at all. That Friedman is committed to Mattingly. Uh huh.

    Apparently, his opt out was triggered by Friedman leaving.
     
  5. Chef2

    Chef2 Well-Known Member

    Has Esptein had enough of Renteria?

    Maybe the Royals fire Yost immediately after winning World Series? That would go over well.
     
  6. RecoveringJournalist

    RecoveringJournalist Well-Known Member

    I don't follow baseball nearly as much as some on here, but the second I saw that hit the news, I assumed he was going to the Dodgers.
     
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  7. Jake_Taylor

    Jake_Taylor Well-Known Member

    I'm becoming more and more convinced with Raul Ibanez doing all these interviews during the World Series he's being groomed. Ned's back next year, but if his crazy decisions aren't panning out and the Royals aren't winning, by mid-summer they'll make the switch.
     
  8. LongTimeListener

    LongTimeListener Well-Known Member

    Coaches/managers have that weird hang-up about not being seen as taking another guy's job even when that's clearly what happens. So the Dodgers will get rid of Mattingly and then start talking to Maddon, and he will forever feel like he has plausible deniability because the job wasn't even open when he became a free agent, so how could he have been angling for it?

    Nobody on the outside ever sees it that way, of course, but they do seem to satisfy their own consciences.
     
  9. RecoveringJournalist

    RecoveringJournalist Well-Known Member

    It's really true. This is why there are some college teams that fire a guy midseason if there is a specific guy they want to pursue.
     
  10. Elliotte Friedman

    Elliotte Friedman Moderator Staff Member

    Olney just said he thinks it is the Cubs
     
  11. JackReacher

    JackReacher Well-Known Member

    Everyone is screaming "DODGERS!!!!!" so I'll take the field, please.
     
  12. LongTimeListener

    LongTimeListener Well-Known Member

    So the Rays are pretty much a non-franchise again, right?
     
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