rico43
<B>Director of Minor League Reports</B>
This is making the leap of assumption that Fredi Gonzalez's days are numbered in Atlanta. As low as expectations have been for 2016, the Braves are playing so far below them that it boggles the mind.
Fredi's priorities have been towards fixing the broken communications between he and his replay monitor guy, but only after calls were passed on in two close losses. He is gone sooner or later, and there will inevitably be an interim guy, who projects to be Terry Pendleton.
But long term? Who is best? Rather, who do we want?
Elsewhere I have landed squarely in the camp of David Ross to be the man. He is still under a players' contract in Chicago, where he just caught Arietta's no-hitter, so unless we want to compensate them, we would have to wait until next year.
The cheaper, safer and not-terrible choice in house would seem to be Eddie Perez, who has been winter ball tested for years and who has always been the loyal soldier. You know the players would love him as skipper, but is that what they really need right now?
Off the wall choice would be Joe Torre, but Hank Aaron would have to be out of the organization before that could possibly happen (see No. 10 in my series). That's a non-starter.
Thoughts?
Fredi's priorities have been towards fixing the broken communications between he and his replay monitor guy, but only after calls were passed on in two close losses. He is gone sooner or later, and there will inevitably be an interim guy, who projects to be Terry Pendleton.
But long term? Who is best? Rather, who do we want?
Elsewhere I have landed squarely in the camp of David Ross to be the man. He is still under a players' contract in Chicago, where he just caught Arietta's no-hitter, so unless we want to compensate them, we would have to wait until next year.
The cheaper, safer and not-terrible choice in house would seem to be Eddie Perez, who has been winter ball tested for years and who has always been the loyal soldier. You know the players would love him as skipper, but is that what they really need right now?
Off the wall choice would be Joe Torre, but Hank Aaron would have to be out of the organization before that could possibly happen (see No. 10 in my series). That's a non-starter.
Thoughts?
