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You were saying GW?

64424550595542545C370 wrote: https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2021/10/ ... ngler.html



You were saying GW?


When I wrote it, the team wasn't below .500.  Situations change.  Expectations sometimes change with them. 

604641545D51465058330 wrote: https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2021/10/ ... ngler.html



You were saying GW?
It certainly would be no surprise

536D6860736B6B604065726136040 wrote: https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2021/10/ ... ngler.html



You were saying GW?
It certainly would be no surprise


Yeah. They pushed all their chips in, didn't they?

They did, but it hurt that Scherzer chose some other team. Might have changed things some. Wasn't their only issue, but an obvious factor. Gotta play the 162, or some other teams will.

seems like a scapegoat to me, they had high expectations, but was the failure all on the manager?

05222B2B22313222053224470 wrote: seems like a scapegoat to me, they had high expectations, but was the failure all on the manager?
That sometimes happens when a team underperforms. And the Padres had some locker room issues and and an epic collapse. On August 10th they were 67-49. The rest of the way they went 12-34. That's a bad look for a manager and Tingler didn't have enough of a track record to weather the storm. 2020 was his first year as an MLB manager but that was only a 60 game season even though they did well. It's never all the manager's fault. But enough went wrong for them this year that they didn't want him returning at the helm next year.

That 12-34 says it all.  All bets were off once the team fell below .500.  To Surg's implied questions, the bets may have been off before that.  Below .500, and it was going to happen





Not because of payroll.  It was because that Padres roster had too much talent to accept anything less than a .500 result.  Also, to some implied comments, anything less than Second Wild Card may have led to the plank walk.

0C392E2E251C2E2E25222E4B0 wrote: That 12-34 says it all.  All bets were off once the team fell below .500.  To Surg's implied questions, the bets may have been off before that.  Below .500, and it was going to happen





Not because of payroll.  It was because that Padres roster had too much talent to accept anything less than a .500 result.  Also, to some implied comments, anything less than Second Wild Card may have led to the plank walk.
As late as September 9 they were still 10 games over .500 (75-65) and had a 1.5 game lead over the Reds for the 2nd WC spot. Over the remaining 22 games of the season they went 4-18.

Not exactly MOY material there.



What do we have- two vacancies? SDP and NYM?



Will be interesting to see who they select.  Two owners not shy about opening their wallets.  Jedd Hughes/Korn Ferry grinning ear-ear.  Cha-CHING!!!