For anyone who is promoting Price, may I ask what makes you think he would be a good manager?
For anyone who is promoting Price, may I ask what makes you think he would be a good manager?
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Castellini denied a report that Baker was fired after Jocketty told him hitting coach Brook Jacoby was going to be fired. Baker reportedly said: "If you're going to fire someone, fire me." "That's somebody's imagination," Castellini said. "If he had that discussion with somebody, it wasn't me. That's No. 1. No. 2, that would never enter into a decision whether you would fire Dusty or not. That has never come up. We have never discussed Brook as far as next year or the year after. Those discussions come."
http://news.cincinnati.com/article/2...-Jacoby-report
Well, according to BOB, Baker is making stuff up.
Everything is perfect, but there is a lot of room for improvement. --- Shunryu Suzuki-roshi
If what Cast says is true that's more proof to me that Walt was pretty much a sleep at the wheel. Everyone with any sense knew that Jacoby needed to go. Even Baker mentioned the pupils had stopped listening to the teacher in so many words. So if Jacoby's firing never coming up speaks volumes to me that Walt is somewhere snoring in an office. I find it hard to believe Walt never talked about possible changes for next year. Sounds like Cast is doing some spin.
Last edited by KoryMac5; 10-05-2013 at 05:29 PM.
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As far as Price goes sounds to me like he is level headed and a great communicator. He knows the Reds players well, and did spend several seasons being tutored by Baker and Melvin. I am not big on needing past managerial experience.
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OK. I suppose it is possible that Jocketty was discussing the coaches with Baker, and Baker---being Baker---defended Jacoby's performance.
The point is, if Bob C. is to be believed, Jacoby didn't enter into the decision to fire Baker. But Baker spinned it like that was what happened.
Everything is perfect, but there is a lot of room for improvement. --- Shunryu Suzuki-roshi
But my point is how does Jacoby not enter into the discussion? Doesn't that say a lot about the Front Office if you're not going to talk about changes going forward. I would have much rather Cast stuck with his first point that Baker was fired due to the lackluster performance. Not bringing up Jacoby at the end of the season makes me think we have a front office that is lackluster as well.
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