[情報] Pirates Fire Clint Hurdle
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Pirates Fire Clint Hurdle
By George Miller | September 29, 2019 at 12:49pm CDT
The Pirates have fired manager Clint Hurdle, according to a report from Ken
Rosenthal of The Athletic. Hurdle had two years remaining on his current
contract.
As Rosenthal notes, general manager Neal Huntington will retain his position
spearheading the organization’s baseball operations. Meanwhile, the coaching
staff will be determined by the incoming manager.
The move comes as something of a surprise, as just days earlier Hurdle
himself asserted that the Pirates assured him that he’d keep his position as
the club’s manager. However, later that day both Hurdle and Huntington were
curiously noncommittal on the future of the skipper.
Hurdle, 62, was installed as the Pittsburgh manager prior to the 2011 season
and finishes his Pirates career as the fourth-winningest manager in franchise
history. He’s led his Pirates teams to an overall 735-720-1 record in his
nine years at the helm, including three consecutive postseason appearances
from 2013-2015. The team peaked with 94- and 98-win seasons in 2013 and 2015,
though they were unable to make it out of the Division Series in that
three-year stretch—and, in 2014 and 2015, they were eliminated in the
one-game playoff.
Not far removed from that stretch of success, this season has been an
especially trying one in Pittsburgh. After winning 82 games a year ago, the
club has taken a step backwards and will have a final chance today to reach
the 70-win plateau. Between a clubhouse altercation involving Kyle Crick and
Felipe Vazquez, numerous on-field brawls, and a suspension to Keone Kela for
a confrontation with a coach, it would seem that the clubhouse has escaped
Hurdle’s control.
Whether he’s at fault for those off-field issues is questionable, but the
on-field results haven’t done Hurdle any favors. His Pirates found
themselves just a game under .500 at the All-Star break, but proceeded to hit
a colossal cold spell en route to a 4-24 stretch into mid-August.
Pittsburgh will join the Giants, Padres, and Cubs among the teams now with a
vacant manager position. It seems that wholesale changes to the coaching
staff may be in order, with pitching coach Ray Searage among those with an
uncertain future. Huntington issued the following statement regarding the
decision:
Words cannot express how much respect and appreciation I have for Clint as a
person and a leader … We will be forever grateful for his dedication to the
Pirates organization on and off the field … As an organization, we believe
it was time for a managerial change to introduce a new voice and new
leadership inside the clubhouse.
Hurdle雖然約還沒滿
但也被fire了
當初剛來時
真的蠻感謝他
嘗試一些新觀念
也讓13~15有不錯的球季(但結局...)
今年不只成績不理想
也發生太多問題(Crick, Vazquez, Kela)
會走是不意外啦...
但憨丁居然沒一起走=_="
(是說三壘指能順便換一換嗎)
來期待新總a吧
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