Effectively Wild Episode 206: When Does it Make Sense to Fire Managers?/What We Think about Hot Streaks

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley

Sports, Baseball

4.8 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 20 May 2013

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Ben and Sam talk about the circumstances under which they’d feel comfortable recommending that a manager be fired, then discuss different beliefs about hot streaks.

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0:00.0	Good morning and welcome to episode 206 of Effectively Wild, the daily podcast from
0:16.4	baseball prospectus, I am Ben Lindbergh, joined by Sam Miller. How was your weekend?
0:23.0	Fine, how was yours?
0:24.3	Pretty good. I went on a Star Trek, the next generation binge.
0:29.2	Cool. Cool. Cool. It was pretty cool.
0:35.1	Okay, so what do you want to talk about today? Hot streaks.
0:41.4	Okay, and I want to talk about a couple different managers who are kind of under scrutiny
0:49.6	right now and something that we had sort of planned to talk about in the email show last
0:55.2	Friday, but didn't, which is whether we would ever recommend firing a manager knowing what
1:01.6	we know. I believe that you're contractually obligated to say hot seat.
1:07.6	Yes, that is right. Well, only one is really on the hot seat. The other one is kind of just
1:13.5	drawing, drawing fire for one particular issue. Okay. Yeah. Why don't you start?
1:22.2	Okay. So the one of those two managers who was really on the hot seat apparently is
1:29.2	Don Mattingley. Ken Rosenthal wrote a story. I think it was late Sunday night, or yeah,
1:38.2	at some point Sunday, who said, he says, now I'm convinced that Mattingley is going to get fired
1:44.6	and the sooner it happens, the better. He seems to think that Mattingley has this one series
1:51.4	coming up. The Dodgers have Kershaw and Grinky and Ruse starting against the brewers, and he thinks
2:00.2	that if it doesn't go well for the Dodgers, Mattingley will be out just sort of based on obviously
2:08.0	how the team is playing and how it was expected to play and just kind of Mattingley's comments
2:14.7	and just seeming to be frustrated and a scout telling him that he's not the right guy for the job
2:20.8	because he's laid back and this team needs a guy with fire and all that sort of thing.
2:26.0	Also, he pre-dates the new ownership group so that doesn't help.
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