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LA Shuffle?!?

Frayed Knot May 10 2013 03:39 PM

I heard a spot with national baseball writer Richard Justice this morning talking about, among other things, the troubles out west in Angel-land. The upshot of the whole deal are rumors that Mike Scoscia's canning could be coming sooner rather than later despite his long tenure, despite the fact that half his pitching staff is on the DL, that neither Pujols or Hamilton is hitting, plus that minor condition about him being under contract [u:r99819u7]until 2018[/u:r99819u7]. Justice says that even Scoscia himself believes he's on the way out. The team is under-achieving (barely out-pacing Houston), Scoscia reportedly doesn't get along with GM Jerry DiPoto (who didn't hire him) and pre-dates just about everyone above him in the ownership realm as well so he's probably no longer anyone's 'boy'. The fun part is that the one thing that might be keeping him from already being jettisoned is that Angel brass is afraid that he'll be unemployed for about an hour and a half at which point he'd be snapped up by ... the cross-town Dodgers!! The boys in blue are doing almost as poorly, manager Mattingly is not only in his first job but is signed for just this season, and of course Scoscia's LAD roots go back a long time. Don't think anyone would have put him high up on the pre-season guesses for first-guy-canned but it's starting to look like that may be the case. Should be fun to watch.

MFS62 May 10 2013 08:56 PM Re: LA Shuffle?!?

I'm just lovin' the fact that Donnie F'n Baseball has been flopping as a manager, considering all the players the owners brought in. The owners can't be too happy about the curent team record. Later

John Cougar Lunchbucket May 10 2013 09:04 PM Re: LA Shuffle?!?

I guess DiPoto could try trading Sciosia to the Dodgers. That would be bold.

SteveJRogers May 11 2013 06:01 AM Re: LA Shuffle?!?

MFS62 wrote: I'm just lovin' the fact that Donnie F'n Baseball has been flopping as a manager, considering all the players the owners brought in. The owners can't be too happy about the curent team record. Later Except for when it affected the Mets with Wee Willie Small Balls, not sure which makes me more gleefull. Another over hyped former highly touted MFY player or coach failing, or one of Belichick's disciples (since they all brought Bill's attitude with them).

Edgy MD May 11 2013 06:27 AM Re: LA Shuffle?!?

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: I guess DiPoto could try trading Sciosia to the Dodgers. That would be bold. The Dodgers may be interesed in Scoscia, but do they really want him for 2013 and five years beyond? Folks were happy enough with Mattingly his first two years while he was seemingly working with less. It's no surprise that muscling up this year would produce a team that might not gel right away. It might not gel ever, but you'd think that Mattlingly bough some good will keeping the team steady through the ownership turmoil after Torre walked.

vtmet May 11 2013 07:08 AM Re: LA Shuffle?!?

Scioscia has a 10 year contract? Who gives a manager a 10 year contract? If he gets fired, would love to have Scioscia here...until the Angels started buying up big name huge contract players, Scioscia was a pretty solid manager for the California Angels of Anahiem of Los Angeles...

Frayed Knot May 11 2013 07:48 AM Re: LA Shuffle?!?

vtmet wrote: Scioscia has a 10 year contract? Who gives a manager a 10 year contract? Not to mention for a total of $50 million dollars. I'm of mixed mind over Scioscia. On the one hand he obviously has a good and lengthy track record out there and for a while at least led the one team that could beat Torre's Yanquis on a regular basis. On the other (with the caveat that I obviously don't see his teams every day) I was never enamored of how his teams played; they always seemed to me to make a ton of outs on the bases as he employed a kind of old-school style of managing where he was regularly willing to give up outs for bases. I'm afraid I'd find him very frustrating to deal with if he were managing my team even if he turned out to be the greatest clubhouse manager on earth. And even that last part is reportedly part of the problem now as Pujols & Hamilton are being perceived as afforded extra slack due to their status/salaries which maybe isn't sitting well with others.