After a disappointing 83-79 season and missing the playoffs, the Nationals have parted ways with their manager, according to the Washington Post. Williams was the NL Manager of the Year in 2014.
After a disappointing 83-79 season and missing the playoffs, the Nationals have parted ways with their manager, according to the Washington Post. Williams was the NL Manager of the Year in 2014.
I like how these stories say the Nats were the "preseason favorites" to be in the World Series.
Yeah, a bunch of people at ESPN engage in group think and repeat each other and you become a "preseason favorite"
Hey, remember when the Nats held Strasburg out of the playoffs because they would be back every year?
LMFAO
Yeah, a bunch of people at ESPN engage in group think and repeat each other and you become a "preseason favorite"
Hey, remember when the Nats held Strasburg out of the playoffs because they would be back every year?
LMFAO
Uh-huh:
Monday, the Nationals fired Williams after the disastrous expiration of his fleeting tenure, an unraveling that began in October last year. In Game 4 of the National League Division Series, the season died and Williams’s credibility within his own clubhouse irrevocably shattered.
In the seventh inning of a tie game, with the Nationals facing elimination, Williams tabbed rookie Aaron Barrett to pitch out of a jam. In the other dugout, according to a person familiar with the situation, Giants Manager Bruce Bochy turned giddily incredulous that Williams had not instead chosen all-star Tyler Clippard, whom Bochy feared because of his experience and ability to face both left-handed and right-handed hitters. As Barrett warmed up, the person said, Bochy expressed to one of his coaches that Williams’s decision had just given the Giants the series. Two walks and a flurry of wild pitches later, the winning run scored and Bochy’s prediction came true. Clippard never saw the mound, and neither did Drew Storen or Stephen Strasburg.
Afterward, Williams said he had chosen Barrett because Barrett had performed that role — been a “seventh-inning guy” — all season. Storen and Clippard were being saved to protect leads. Strasburg was available only in an emergency, Williams said, and that was telling. Seventh inning, tie game, opponent rallying, season on the brink — that is the emergency. Williams’s reliance on orthodoxy prevented him from seeing it. There is an epitaph for Williams: He did not notice the emergency until it was over.
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Do you even watch baseball?
Not saying managers are meaningless.
The good great ones are good for about +3 wins vs the bad ones probably -3.
The Nats did not lose the NL East because of Williams.
They have bigger issues on that team.
Nats under 93.5 wins was free money
The good great ones are good for about +3 wins vs the bad ones probably -3.
The Nats did not lose the NL East because of Williams.
They have bigger issues on that team.
Nats under 93.5 wins was free money
Pretty much the same response he gave to why he trotted Papelbon back out after the dugout fight: "He's our Closer" then Pap gets lit up cuz he's all shook from the engagement...
I do believe that Matt Williams becomes a very very good maybe even great Manager eventually perhaps even among the Legends of Baseball Mgmt. he just did not have a great start. If he is given the opportunity I believe that he learns from mistakes made and makes a very very good choice of Manager.
