Manager Bob Geren Fired by Oakland A's or You Don't F With a Team's Most Valuable Asset

I wonder if there is an opening on Eric Byrnes’ softball team

This season may be lost, but to keep Geren around any longer made no sense. He had lost the team and regardless of what the reason(s) that is not good. I hope better days are ahead.

Geren jotting down life passage moments in his diary while standing in the dugout. Kerouac has nothing on him.

Just ask the Angels or the Rangers if their managers r overated….theres passion and strategy involed, not some low budget pathetic Steinbrenner type…a laBilly Beane.

Manage by numbers and do what ur told…Yippe love the creativity of this…Billy shoud fire himself!!!

I personally believe that Geren isn’t gone for any other reason other than the fact that the A’s young pitching was dropping at a ridiculous rate. Dallas Braden, Brett Anderson, Tyson Ross and Brandon McCarthy all dropping off to injury issues.

None of those pitchers have been overworked. Braden and McCarthy have both had a ton of injuries pre-Geren, including the same injuries they’re currently suffering from.

And, despite what Rob Bowen claims, Geren didn’t ruin a dozen young careers back when Bowen was caddying for Suzuki. The only guy who was potentially overworked was Blanton, and his career has not been ruined.

This is another lateral and pointless move. Nothing will change until Fisher, Wolff and Beane take a hike. They had their little change to build a new home, and it hasn’t happened. Now they need to leave town.

Beane’s true colors have been shown. The irony of “Moneyball” showing in theaters across the country this Fall is truly rich.

Please, please sell the team.

Hey fellas, it is difficult to watch this version of our team. I don’t even watch them anymore with all the finger-pointing going on here. The manager is practically the least of the team’s problems. They are a faint shadow of themselves and a lot of the bloggers (i.e. baseballgirl) are not holding back. I am still a fan and I love this team and this franchise, but something has to give in a significant way. I still say firing the manager is like the firing the waiter if the food is bad. Tyler made a point about the pitching staff and its injuries. Most of today’s pitchers defy proper mechanics. By the time the manager gets these kids, they are all funked up. None of the A’s pitchers throw the ball mechanically right. It hurts to watch them. I saw one premier rookie pitcher pitch last year and I wasn’t surprised when he went down to injury. If I was managing or a coach I’d break ‘em like a pretzel and have them throw properly. Managing is like teaching. Ya’ gotta go for it and put your fingerprint on everything, including the sacred ill-mechanics of some prized prospect. I interviewed a former big leaguer turned coach some 20 years ago one-on-one for more than one hour and he told me about the difficulties of a $50,000 coach telling a millionaire player what to do. I don’t know what the deal with Geren is, but I would recommend Tom Seaver, Nolan Ryan teach them how to throw first, then worry about who the manager is or is not. And that doesn’t even cover the hitting or dare I say, the ballpark too.

with a healthy SP staff but…. he still would have been replaced. BoGer (maybe we should just say booger) has the personality of a potato and seemed ineffective at rallying the troops partially or wholly due to his personality. his in game managing skills certainly didn’t help in getting the players behind him. this all contributed to booger being “relieved of his duties.”

even his move to bat weeks in his first game at the mlb level was a just another poor decision. this is typical booger… no clue. of course weeks did NOT respond with the added pressure and went 0-4 with not even moving his bat in his first AB, a K on 5 pitches.

I’m sorry, but injuries are not a factor in the A’s slide into last place. If you can’t score a single run against awful pitching, you are not going to win. I don’t care how good your pitchers pitch.

I can only think of a few obvious blunders, frankly. One of them was Brett Anderson’s recent start, in which he was left in for an extra inning to get pummeled. Given what’s happening with Anderson, that might support Blez’s theory.

I had moire problems with Geren’s handling of the bullpen, and his penchant to ride one or two guys into the ground. He also, as has been noted many times, got too attached to certain guys in certain situations, even when the attachment wasn’t justified or made no sense in the first place.

Most of the injured starters, Anderson included, were obvious injury risks to begin with. Braden had problems that were compounded by the brilliant medical staff. Ross was considered a high injury risk from the moment he was drafted. McCarthy has been on the shelf repeatedly before joining the A’s. Should we blame Geren for Harden’s injury woes too?

I don’t know the whole story about Beane’s decision to fire Geren, but I don’t think his handling of the starters is it.

Yes!

Melvin

It’s a start.

The message from the Giants couldn’t be truer now… Keep your heads up and we’ll see the Green and Gold in the playoffs! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1TcD95kmGQ

I blame him for my skyrocketing alchol comsuption.

Here’s the only thing I know; The A’s under Geren never had any swagger. They weren’t great teams, but not one guy ever played like he would rip off someone’s arm if it meant he would a big hit with RISP. You know how they say that a dog and its owner start to look alike over time, with Geren the A’s were clearly poodles.

I don’t know that there is a better way to begin my AN posting career than with an “Alleluia!”