The Baseball Manager

Posted on: July 29, 2010 by admin No Comments

The baseball manager seems to get a ton of blame for what goes on within the entire baseball team that they coach. For example, if a pitching change was made, then the relief pitcher came in and blew the game, many people may just blame the manager for the change made, rather the pitcher who could not do his job. There are two ways to look at it, but the case of the manager being blamed is typical when a team has a losing record or has been struggling. So where do you draw the line? At what point is it the fault of the player who should be doing his job, rather the manager going to the bullpen for one of his relief pitchers.

Well, what was mentioned before was that the manager will take more blame if the team is doing poorly, then he will if the team is playing well. So if you strive to one day be a team manager, you will have to learn that no matter what happens, good or bad, you will be the one being looked at. You will be blamed for everything that happens, so you better do what you can to get your team in order.

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Don’t Fire The Manager

Posted on: April 23, 2010 by admin No Comments

It seems that when a team really has a poor year, the manager is the first person to get the blame. Often time managers are the captain of the ship. If it goes down, they go down with it. There is no bailing out, there are no excuses. Sure, the team could have had plenty of injuries or they just really played poorly, but sometimes that doesn’t matter.

More than in the past, lately it seems that managers of some teams are given very little time to turn a team around. If they do not, they get fired and the team is off to the next guy. So if you think it’s fair or not, it really seems to matter very little. If a team slumps, you might be saying good-bye to that manager.

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