10/20 21:13: Don Mattingly looks like he may have gotten the experience that he needed in a bench coach. According to Ken Gurnick of MLB.com, former Kansas City Royals manager Trey Hillman has emerged as the front-runner to be bench coach on Don Mattingly’s staff. The 47-year-old Hillman, who managed the Royals from [...]
10/21/10
Here are a few manager, general manager and coaching notes to be aware of:
According to a Major League source close to The Denver Post’s Troy E. Renck, former Colorado Rockies manager and now Texas Rangers bench coach Clint Hurdle has been contacted by an unnamed team about its managerial vacancy.
FOXSports’ Ken Rosenthal says Tampa Bay [...]
10/15/10
Current first base coach of the San Diego Padres, Rich Renteria, is on the Florida Marlins’ radar to possibly manage the club in 2011, according to MLB.com’s Joe Frisaro.
The Marlins are familiar with the 49-year-old Renteria since he managed four season in the Marlins’ Minor League system starting in 1998. He has also played as [...]
09/17/10
Here’s the latest from The Boston Globe’s Nick Cafardo:
Derek Jeter’s upcoming free agency is either going to be “very easy or very complicated.” One AL executive said, “Derek Jeter is a two-year, $8 million-a-year player in the open market. The Yankees hold all the cards. I’m sure everything will be done with great [...]
09/05/10
On Ken Rosenthal’s lastest full count video, he covers the coaching carousel around the league and various other topics:
By now, we are all aware that Bobby Cox the manager of the Atlanta Braves will be retiring at seasons end. The Braves have been rumored for months now to want Fredi Gonzalez to take over. [...]
09/04/10
The agent of Los Angeles Dodgers’ outfielder Matt Kemp, Dave Stewart, spoke out about the unfair treatment of his client.
It’s almost like it’s open season on Matt, and it’s not right,” Stewart said in a phone interview (via Bill Plaschke of the Los Angeles Times). “It’s a bunch of back-seat crap.”
“I’m almost to the point [...]
08/13/10
When several Yankees talked about their warm feelings for former manager Joe Torre, Alex Rodriguez dodged the questions.
“No more of those questions,” Rodriguez said. “Any more questions about anything else. I’m not going to get into that.”
Erik Boland of Newsdays says,
“In Torre’s 2009 book “The Yankee Years” he described Rodriguez as nearly obsessive in all [...]
06/24/10
6/20 21:09: Lexi Belle aka Jessica McCumber has posted a couple more tweets:
2 anyone who is snooping around trying to figure out if i am dating a Dodger player.i am NOT. he is not on the team. stop with the insanity
(Twitter source)
f**k the blogger who called me out and posted my real name and also [...]
06/21/10
Jeff Zrebiec of The Baltimore Sun says Orioles president of baseball operations Andy MacPhail doesn’t have any interviews scheduled for the team’s managerial vacancy, but that could change.
“I would be shocked if anything happened at the earliest by the All-Star break,” MacPhail said. “We still have guys to talk to. There are still a lot [...]
06/15/10