The Girardi Era Begins

[glorydays]

It looks like a little change of managerial style here. I really had no preference on this one. I hope it is a few years before we run the "keeper or goner" thread on Girardi.

[explorer88]

Oct 24, 2019 10:14:18 GMT -5 glorydays said:

It looks like a little change of managerial style here. I really had no preference on this one. I hope it is a few years before we run the "keeper or goner" thread on Girardi.

Great hire. Middleton basically tells Klentak and McPhail we are not hiring Showalter. Not sure why they are here when the owner basically tells them this is what we are doing. Just get rid of those two clowns.

[MisterD]

Yankees fan here ...

Pros: Definitely really smart in terms of baseball and in general, super analytical, seems like a genuinely good dude, really f'ing cares
Cons: Wound unbelievably tight, seems to maybe freeze up a bit at times

Overall: Definitely an above the median hire and far better than Baker or Showalter would have been. In general will be a net positive but the losses might stand out more than the cumulative wins. His final clash with Sanchez was clearly his fault and I think part of why Boone got the job. I don't know if this makes sense, but Girardi acted like a guy whose job was to win the game whereas Boone acts like a guy whose job is to handle the players who win or lose the game. They both want to end up in the same place, but get there via very different paths.

[theneumann64]

I loved Girardi with the Yankees, although I do understand why they felt the need to move on from him after 10 years (sometimes it's just time for a change). I think it's a great hire for the Phillies. Like MisterD said, he's definitely a little high-strung, which I'm sure can wear on players eventually, but he's got a great mind for the game and I'm sure in the NL, where you have to "manage" more within the context of each individual game, he'll be fine. You could argue his best managerial job ever was his one year with the Marlins in 2006.