Details just coming in. Press Conference tomorrow morning.

 

 

I’m surprised but congrats to Don. 

 

 

Shocked but if they think this is the right move I gotta commend them for having the balls to do this. They want continuity and I can appreciate that. I wouldn't think Donnie is the best choice but if they don't want to keep starting over I can see why they did this. 

 

 

 Really surprising.  

 

At the end of the day, though, Donnie isn’t the reason we will lose 100+ games and he won’t be the reason (if) we win 82-90 games in 2021. 

 

 

Uh. ... ok then.

 

Get someone else to manage the pitching decisions and I'll be OK with this.

 

 

 Really surprising.  

 

At the end of the day, though, Donnie isn’t the reason we will lose 100+ games and he won’t be the reason (if) we win 82-90 games in 2021. 

 

This is fair.

 

 

Uh. ... ok then.

 

Get someone else to manage the pitching decisions and I'll be OK with this.

 

This is fair too.

 

I mean... Don Mattingly isn't the worst manger in the world but it sure feels like we could have several more wins if he wasn't making the on field decisions.

 

With that said... has Donnie done a great job with leading the clubhouse through down times? Has Donnie gotten guys to play hard even though two almost 100 loss seasons? Definitely yes to those two. 

 

I just cant stop thinking how ballsy this move is. It's almost never that a rebuilding team sticks with the same manager from start to (hopeful) finish... it also goes against the grain for the Marlins as an organization. 

 

Also, remember when asked if Donnie was sticking around and Jeter was like "he's still under contract right?" Such a different tone set with this move. 

 

 

Just heard that Mattingly got resigned. And now I see he was extended as well. Luck guy.

 

 

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So I guess Miggy Ro and Mattingly were kind of a package deal then.

 

 

I saw the news like an hour ago. They are now finally gonna talk about it on MLBNetwork after the commercial break.

 

 

I couldn't imagine this. 

 

 

Uh. ... ok then.

 

Get someone else to manage the pitching decisions and I'll be OK with this.

 

I'm personally on board with his bullpen management. Every fan base thinks their manager (especially this year) is terrible at bullpen management. But frankly, Donnie's decisions this year and last are all defendable in my book.

 

I know that's not the Cool Guy opinion to have, but frankly there were times where his only options were all bad options, and that just happens with rebuilding bullpens. 

 

 

Uh. ... ok then.

 

Get someone else to manage the pitching decisions and I'll be OK with this.

 

But I always think it's not all on the manager, if the bullpen is good then the outcome would always be good no matter who you put in the mound, but if the bullpen suck then the outcome would be always bad no matter who you put in the mound…

 

 

I don't know it's a right decision or not, but I just know Mattingly looked like a good manager in the LA with a great roster and looked like a suck manager in the Miami with a suck roster …

 

 

This also means the front office didn't think any of the available managerial candidates were any better than Donnie.

 

 

I'm personally on board with his bullpen management. Every fan base thinks their manager (especially this year) is terrible at bullpen management. But frankly, Donnie's decisions this year and last are all defendable in my book.

 

I know that's not the Cool Guy opinion to have, but frankly there were times where his only options were all bad options, and that just happens with rebuilding bullpens. 

 

 

 

This also means the front office didn't think any of the available managerial candidates were any better than Donnie.

 

Probably. I expected Jeter would choose young, tame and unknown(definitely cheap to add) person in this industry, like Twins' Rocco Baldelli. 

 

But It seems not to work well. 

 

 

It would be very interesting to predict the total amount of money in Donnie's new contract, because many baseball people said before the high salary would be the key factor if Donnie was let go. 

 

 

It won't surprise me if this team win all the remaining games of this season, because Rojas was happy, Donnie was happy and all the other players were happy because they all like Rojas and Donnie. 

 

 

Cool! I really like Don and was certain he’d be gone after this year. 

 

 

It won't surprise me if this team win all the remaining games of this season, because Rojas was happy, Donnie was happy and all the other players were happy because they all like Rojas and Donnie. 

 

If only it was that easy. 

 

 

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49 minutes ago, SilverBullet said:

 

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This is a dumb take by Mish.  No manager was going to change this team from a 100 loss team or last year’s from a 98 loss team. Don makes some bad decisions but with a shit roster to work with, his job wasn’t to win games really. It was to help mold a young roster into a winning one. It was to keep a good clubhouse. It was to keep guys fighting and clawing even in the dog days of summer.  The clubhouse seems to love him and they do try and win even while having one of the worst records in baseball. Their failure to win isn’t on him. I would say he did a good job based on what was expected of him.

 

 

1 hour ago, SilverBullet said:

 

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Sometimes it feels like Mish was just a casual fan and not a professional baseball people …