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Originally Posted by Marcellus
Maloney was a God awful 3rd base coach. Terrible isn't even the word for it.
You cant fire everyone at once but you have to do something.
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They have a metric that tracks a teams performance on close plays at the plate and this year the Cardinals were actually a tick better than average.
Now I'm not sure that makes him a good 3b coach, but I'm not convinced he was a bad one either. It's just a completely thankless job in that nobody remembers when you send a runner home and he gets there just ahead of the tag. And nobody cares if you give someone the go sign and they weren't hustling hard to the bag so they try to speed back up and **** it up.
Maloney wasn't anywhere near the top 5 in terms of damaging impact on this club. Even if he wasn't good at his job (and maybe he wasn't), it's mattered very little in the grand scheme of things.
Certainly not enough to call a press conference to fire him while John Mabry and Mike Matheny get to keep their jobs.
It's bush league. And that doesn't surprise me coming from an organization that called a player up only to tell him while he was driving to the ballpark that he should turn around and drive back to Memphis because they changed their mind.
This team and its leadership is a festering pile of shit from the top to the bottom. They need to fire every mother****ing one of these complacent assholes.