10/19: Girardi to Manage the Marlins
Posted by: James
Joe Girardi has agreed in principle to be the manager of the Florida Marlins. He also had talks with the Tampa Bay Devil Rays but it looks all but done that he will be added on as the skipper in Florida.
Honestly, I don't know how Joe went from former major league catcher (with a great triple against Greg Maddux in Game 6 of the 1996 World Series - my lasting memory of him) to a primo head-coaching candidate so quickly. If I remember correctly, he was also talked about heavily for a couple of jobs last year as well. It seems somewhat odd that Girardi has to wait practically no time before his day in the sun... but the hiring of other former Yankee coaches took a good long time in coming (ex. 11 years on the Yankee coaching staff for Willie Randolph before his shot). Regardless, Joe inherits a pretty nice situation in Florida with a solid, mostly young, team that fell just a bit short of the wildcard in a very competitive NL East. I wish him well and hope to see some good coaching battles between two well-liked former Yankee coaches.
Honestly, I don't know how Joe went from former major league catcher (with a great triple against Greg Maddux in Game 6 of the 1996 World Series - my lasting memory of him) to a primo head-coaching candidate so quickly. If I remember correctly, he was also talked about heavily for a couple of jobs last year as well. It seems somewhat odd that Girardi has to wait practically no time before his day in the sun... but the hiring of other former Yankee coaches took a good long time in coming (ex. 11 years on the Yankee coaching staff for Willie Randolph before his shot). Regardless, Joe inherits a pretty nice situation in Florida with a solid, mostly young, team that fell just a bit short of the wildcard in a very competitive NL East. I wish him well and hope to see some good coaching battles between two well-liked former Yankee coaches.
Seamus wrote:
Anyway, the question that I was pondering was, who becomes the next Yankees' bench coach? Is it Mattingly? If it is, do we need another hitting coach? Some will throw Piniella's name around, but I don't see him accepting a job as a bench coach. Probably too firy for the job anyway.