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Post by 88bulldog on May 18, 2018 14:35:51 GMT
Zaidi gave him a vote of confidence
Dodgers GM gives manager Dave Roberts vote of confidence
3:48 PM ET
ESPN
The Los Angeles Dodgers are making history with their poor start, but manager Dave Roberts' job appears to be safe.
General manager Farhan Zaidi said Thursday that the team's front office has "confidence" in Roberts' performance this season. The Dodgers entered Thursday 16-26 and in last place in the National League West. It's the earliest the club has been 10 games under .500 since 1929.
"We, again, have all the confidence in him in the world," Zaidi said on Mornings With Keyshawn, Jorge and LZ on ESPN Los Angeles. "We said that during spring training when people asked about it. [We] haven't seen anything in this first quarter of the season that has done anything to our confidence level with him."
The Dodgers ended a six-game losing streak with a 7-0 win over the Miami Marlins on Thursday.
On Monday, team president Andrew Friedman said he is responsible for the Dodgers' early-season struggles -- not Roberts.
"There is no doubt in my mind that he is the right guy to lead this team going forward," Friedman told the Los Angeles Times. "The way our minds work is not to assign blame to anyone at this point. It's to hunker down, all together, and try to solve problems.
"I'm very comfortable in saying that, if we had to assign blame at this point, it should be me who is taking that, and not Doc."
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Post by 88bulldog on May 18, 2018 14:38:17 GMT
This guy doesn't buy it...
Can't Believe Los Angeles Dodgers Won't Fire Manager Dave Roberts, But Just Wait
Terence Moore , Contributor
This is a tough one.
Well, it really isn't.
Since those running the Toronto Raptors had enough guts to whack Dwane Casey last week after another dismal performance for one of his teams during the playoffs -- you know, despite his peers naming him their NBA coach of the year for the regular season -- Los Angeles Dodgers officials blew it this week by giving manager Dave Roberts a vote of confidence.
OK, OK. It's unofficially called "the dreaded" vote of confidence, which often is followed within months, weeks, days or even hours of whoever makes such a statement firing the guy anyway. So Roberts likely will be gone sooner rather than later, and that's good.
If you're shaking your head over what you've just read, you're probably into old-school thinking, which says that's bad. During Roberts' rookie season managing the Dodgers in 2016, he had a Major League Baseball record 28 guys on the disabled list, and he made 606 pitching changes, another unprecedented mark. Still, they reached the National League Championship Series.
Then came last season, when Roberts led the Dodgers to within a Game 7 of winning their first World Series title since 1988, but the Houston Astros had something to say about that.
Enter that new-school thinking about Robert's job status going from stable to shaky, and this goes back to the late Al Davis, the legendary owner of the Oakand/Los Angeles Raiders. During the nearly three decades his franchise was an NFL powerhouse into the 1980s, he was ahead of his time when he used to tell everybody, "Just win, baby."
Let's return to Roberts, who took the Dodgers to the NLCS during his first year in LA, but it wasn't as if they won the thing. They dropped a six-game series to the Chicago Cubs. Now they've followed what they didn't do against the Astros last year during the World Series with the worst start for a historically strong Dodgers franchise since 1929.
None of this other stuff matters for the Dodgers. Three-fourths of their infield (third baseman Justin Turner, shortstop Corey Seager and second baseman Logan Forsythe) missing most of the early season due to injuries. A terrible bullpen after management tried to save a few bucks during the winter by watching standouts Brandon Morrow and Tony Watson leave through free agency. Aches and pains throughout the starting rotation, including to Clayton Kershaw, maybe the game's best pitcher.
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Post by Blunashun on May 18, 2018 15:28:11 GMT
"A terrible bullpen after management tried to save a few bucks during the winter by watching standouts Brandon Morrow and Tony Watson leave through free agency."
A few bucks? What a moron.
The things Dave has done this season that might have gotten him in a bit of hot water with the front office was complaining about the lack of depth in spring training, & calling Cody Bellinger out in public. Otherwise, what was he supposed to do? Jansen got off to a terrible start, Turner fractured his wrist, the Dodgers MVP (Cory Seager) is out for the year. Ryu was pitching for a contract & he's gone now too. Tom Koehler got hurt. Chris Taylor was limping along until just recently. Kershaw has his mandatory DL time. I'd like to see the Dodgers run more. The homeruns aren't coming like last year. Try putting pressure on the opposing team's defense. But I don't think Friedman & Zaidi are fans of that.
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Post by 88bulldog on May 18, 2018 15:43:44 GMT
"A terrible bullpen after management tried to save a few bucks during the winter by watching standouts Brandon Morrow and Tony Watson leave through free agency." A few bucks? What a moron. The things Dave has done this season that might have gotten him in a bit of hot water with the front office was complaining about the lack of depth in spring training, & calling Cody Bellinger out in public. Otherwise, what was he supposed to do? Jansen got off to a terrible start, Turner fractured his wrist, the Dodgers MVP (Cory Seager) is out for the year. Ryu was pitching for a contract & he's gone now too. Tom Koehler got hurt. Chris Taylor was limping along until just recently. Kershaw has his mandatory DL time. I'd like to see the Dodgers run more. The homeruns aren't coming like last year. Try putting pressure on the opposing team's defense. But I don't think Friedman & Zaidi are fans of that. Yup, good points. And I don't even think what he did with Cody was all that wrong. He took him out, what was he supposed to do about it with the media? Lie? I don't think he should be fired right now. And if he should be I want to know who the choices are to replace him... |
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Post by Blunashun on May 18, 2018 15:45:59 GMT
"And if he should be I want to know who the choices are to replace him..."
DDF?
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Post by 88bulldog on May 18, 2018 16:11:15 GMT
evidently it was just pure hatred for that man, because he never had this bad of a start yet he was killed the entire time he was here.
not even 2011, his worst season, was this bad.
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Post by Blunashun on May 18, 2018 19:36:40 GMT
evidently it was just pure hatred for that man, because he never had this bad of a start yet he was killed the entire time he was here. not even 2011, his worst season, was this bad. Don wasn't a "real" Dodger though. Whatever that means. |
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Post by joseph on Sept 25, 2024 13:33:27 GMT
I am sorry to tell you the way things have gone this year I am really upset this manager has no clue on how to win games all he does is is right in his book. He never puts the right group of players on the field
he has good players on the bench who are hitting the ball and the two strike out kings playing. He never players small ball never bunts at the right time. Its a shame we lose game because of his lack of thinking
Kike is a good backup. Try and get a good manager who has baseball smarts
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Post by jrgreene6 on Sept 25, 2024 22:10:40 GMT
I would HONESTLY LOVE to know how this assclown still has a job.
Last night was the 21st loss (according to my log) that HE HIMSELF was 100% responsible for.
Knowing Rojas ain’t exactly Usain Bolt going down the baselines, it appeared that Daisy had a small inkling of sense to ask him to bunt and at least try to move the runners over.
Rojas even squared to do so on the first pitch, which was a strike that he pulled the bat back on.
So, naturally Machado immediately moved from playing behind third to several steps in front.
But instead of keeping the bunt on, DDF II allows Pokey to swing away. Did he really have that much confidence that he could get one by Machado?
Even if the bunt COMPLETELY failed on three tries, LA still has two runners on and only one out with two of the best players in baseball coming up against a struggling Stains reliever who was on the ropes.
I just don’t get it - I REALLY don’t!
No way Daisy and / or Fraudy should keep their jobs after another year of “close - but no cigar”.
Ownership invested a BILLION, that’s BILLION with a B putting together the best team money could buy.
Pitching injuries have taken their toll - but again - one has to look internally as to why this keeps happening to Dodger pitchers.
What they really need is a swift kick in the ass.
I’ll be rooting for ANYONE but the ugly red headed stepchildren down south because LA ain’t getting out of their first round, whether division winner or wildcard.
FIRE DAISY ROBERTS!!!
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