DOES BOBBY V DESERVE ANOTHER YEAR?

If you assess the season so far, there are a lot of disappointments that have come out of the 2012 season. For instance, the Chicago Cubs hired a general manager from Boston who had a great track record in Bean Town, and expectations were high in Chicago, but look at the standings and the Hub is down. Theo Epstein must have known something that he bailed when the Red Sox are going down the tubes!

Terry Francona had a perfectly good team, then suddenly come the month of September in 2011, and the team begins its descent into bad, that continues to this day. What happened?

 

Meanwhile the Red Sox made what a lot of people felt was a brilliant move, in hiring Bobby Valentine, a proven manager with a decent record, but nowhere near great.

In 16 seasons of managing professional baseball in America, he never finished higher than 2^nd, won only one pennant, and that was as a wild card that took him to a World Series in which he lost in 5 games.

To complicate his status in a tough baseball town, he alienated his players to the point of almost open rebellion and it all played out in the media, where Bobby holds very little respect.

Granted there was dissention in the clubhouse in Boston, and that may still be lingering, before Valentine came to town, so you can’t hold that part against him. He is not the most favored with umpires and certainly will come out and argue for his guys and of course for himself.

 

They have had an awful road trip recently and there seems to be no hope. Should he go? In my opinion, he should go, not because of the Red Sox troubles, but because he is not a great manager. Let’s face it, for 16 years he has never won anything, never a manager of the year and had only two 90+ winning seasons, both with the Mets, so why would anyone think after 16 years he is capable of winning? Maybe being the son-in-law of Ralph Branca gives him some currency with baseball people.

That’s all I wrote, folks!