Mike Matheny was chosen to replace Tony LaRussa as the Cardinals next manager.  Like the pick of Robin Ventura on the South side of Chicago, the selection of Matheny goes far away from any of the “new” business of baseball conventions being employed by Chicago and Boston in their managerial search.  In-game decisions aren’t the [...]

Bill Madden’s column gives a little more insight into the Yankee decision to bring in Rafael Soriano.  While, yesterday I called it a decision made to appease fans, but one that wouldn’t hurt the Yankees that much, I didn’t take into account the type of teammate Soriano was.  I didn’t know.  But as Madden suggests, [...]

Steve Popper writes this morning about the moves the Mets have made since they have let Jerry Manuel and Omar Minaya go.  The gist of the article is spot on.  Popper raises the question of what is best for the team moving forward and what the fans want.
And this gets to the heart of what [...]

Though Ken Macha of the Brewers was also let go yesterday, his case sits outside that of the Mets and the Pirates.  Why am I lumping these two two franchises together? Because of how ownership approached, well, how they approached their news conferences.
In both the Mets and the Pirates case, the ownership groups announced the [...]

Kevin Towers was named the new General Manager of the Arizona Diamondbacks yesterday.  Its an ironic move, since not only is this the team formerly owned by the man that fired him in San Diego, it is also a team that interviewed him 5 years ago, but chose to go in more of a statistical [...]