Tag: American baseball manager
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Cubs shoot Craig Counsell should be David Ross’s new manager.
On Monday, the Chicago Cubs appointed Craig Counsell as manager after dismissing David Ross. A record-breaking five-year, $40 million contract enticed the longstanding Milwaukee Brewers manager to Chicago, according to people involved with the negotiations who spoke with ESPN. The baseball community, which had assumed Counsell would either be hired by the New York Mets…
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Gabe Kapler was fired by the Giants after four seasons and one playoff appearance.
The San Francisco Giants dismissed manager Gabe Kapler on Friday, after a late-season collapse that knocked the club out of postseason contention and raised doubts about the organisation’s future direction. The dismissal comes with three games left in the season and the Giants sitting at 78-81. Farhan Zaidi, the Giants’ president of baseball operations, said…