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Originally Posted by DJ's left nut
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.
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I watched too many guys get sent and thrown out by 15ft this year to agree with that. It was little league bad.
And look I want Mabry gone (the most obvious and doable in my opinion), Matheny gone, the popcorn vender gone and the beer vender gone.
But like I said you cant do it all at once in the middle of the season.
Hard to complain they aren't doing anything then complain when they do something.
And we all know Matheny isn't getting canned unless they go on to lose 100 games and that may not be enough.