Question for Yankeees fans

I am a Cardinals fan. They just fired their manager. Do I want them to hire Girardi? 

 And hoe about the article in the New York Times today about how loathsome the Yankees are?! 

I am not a Yankees fan, but I am a baseball fan.

There are plenty of good managers out there.  Girardi is certainly one of them.  But he also is said to have lost the clubhouse the last few years.  Not sure if that was just him getting stale in the same place for too long, or if it speaks to his trouble with the new generation of players--he seems to be old school.

OTOH, he has a .554 winning percentage and while most of that was with a well-stocked Yankees team, he also was pretty darned successful with the less stocked Marlins in 2006.  

What is interesting to me about Girardi is that he was let go by both Miami and the Yankees after very successful seasons, which seems to give credence to his losing either the clubhouse or the C-Suite.

As was once said about a football coach, "He's the type of guy you hire if you want to win, but not too much."

No matter what your resources are, a 10-year run where you never go below 84 wins is impressive. However, before last season, the four previous Yankee seasons, they won 85, 84, 87 and 84 games, missing the playoffs three times and losing in the WC game to Dallas Keuchel.

He's a very smart person who studied engineering at Northwestern and is a stickler about doing things in the old-school baseball way that is falling out of favor among both players and front offices. Girardi won't hurt you and if the right players are there, he did lead a team to a world championship. He's a good manager and always has his teams ready, but his kind of all-knowing style wears on you over time unless there is Belichick-like success.  

Aaron Boone sent a runner last night in a questionable situation last night and he got thrown out. In his postgame interview, Boone said in retrospect that he probably made the wrong call. Discussing the situation today, the Yankee announcers couldn't hold back their amazement that Boone admitted such a thing. I think that's a reaction to 10 years of Girardi.

Stoughton said:

Girardi won't hurt you and if the right players are there, he did lead a team to a world championship.

Ouch.

Stoughton said:
As was once said about a football coach, "He's the type of guy you hire if you want to win, but not too much."

No matter what your resources are, a 10-year run where you never go below 84 wins is impressive. However, before last season, the four previous Yankee seasons, they won 85, 84, 87 and 84 games, missing the playoffs three times and losing in the WC game to Dallas Keuchel.

He's a very smart person who studied engineering at Northwestern and is a stickler about doing things in the old-school baseball way that is falling out of favor among both players and front offices. Girardi won't hurt you and if the right players are there, he did lead a team to a world championship. He's a good manager and always has his teams ready, but his kind of all-knowing style wears on you over time unless there is Belichick-like success.  

Aaron Boone sent a runner last night in a questionable situation last night and he got thrown out. In his postgame interview, Boone said in retrospect that he probably made the wrong call. Discussing the situation today, the Yankee announcers couldn't hold back their amazement that Boone admitted such a thing. I think that's a reaction to 10 years of Girardi.

 At least he rarely used a single-inning reliever try to go 2 innings. Boone keeps doing the same thing and expecting different results.

I have coffee with Al Leiter every few weeks. If you have questions, I can ask him.

Dennis_Seelbach said:

  At least he rarely used a single-inning reliever try to go 2 innings. Boone keeps doing the same thing and expecting different results.

 Not only did Boone do that today (with four off days coming up!), but after Green let the game away, Boone left him in. It was almost as if he was punishing him or something. Why not bring in a rarely used guy to get an out or two?

Stoughton said:

Dennis_Seelbach said:

  At least he rarely used a single-inning reliever try to go 2 innings. Boone keeps doing the same thing and expecting different results.

 Not only did Boone do that today (with four off days coming up!), but after Green let the game away, Boone left him in. It was almost as if he was punishing him or something. Why not bring in a rarely used guy to get an out or two?

 agreed!   

Formerlyjerseyjack said:
I have coffee with Al Leiter every few weeks. If you have questions, I can ask him.

 Al and I went to the same high school. Central Regional High School, Bayville, NJ. I think he graduated with my kid brother. 

Can you ask Al Leiter why the Yankees don't get rid of Michael Kaye, who is a pompous know nothing douche, hated among Yankee fans?

Robert_Casotto said:
Can you ask Al Leiter why the Yankees don't get rid of Michael Kaye, who is a pompous know nothing douche, hated among Yankee fans?

 This is a team that continues to employ Sterling and Waldman, for Pete's sake.  They make Kaye sound like Howie and Josh.