The Mets Will Not Play Joe Maddon’s Angels

[G-Fafif]

Angels fire Joe Maddon. Phil Nevin is LAA's interim skipper.

[Edgy MD]

Whoah.



Nevin has been a longtime managerial prospect with a lot of JV experience who's been waiting for a big league chance.

[Benjamin Grimm]

The Mets will be getting to Anaheim just in time for the Angels' new-manager winning streak.

[roger_that]

Benjamin Grimm wrote: The Mets will be getting to Anaheim just in time for the Angels' new-manager winning streak.

Seriously. Teams tend (in my imagination, at least) to play much better initially for a new manager than they had been for the manager who just got fired.



I wonder if there's any truth to this.

[Edgy MD]

The first exception that pops to mind is the 1988 Orioles, who went 0-6 under Cal Ripken, saw him replaced by Frank Robinson, and then went on to lose 15 more on their way to an 0-21 start.

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

Maddon was basically bulletproof at one point. A name his destination type of skipper



Just goes to show ya.

[Frayed Knot]

Benjamin Grimm wrote: The Mets will be getting to Anaheim just in time for the Angels' new-manager winning streak. Seriously. Teams tend (in my imagination, at least) to play much better initially for a new manager than they had been for the manager who just got fired. I wonder if there's any truth to this.

It's working for the Phillies right now.

[Ceetar]

manager firings are usually knee-jerk reactions after a stretch of bad luck and bad results, it's likely most of these teams would start playing better regardless. The trick is when you knee-jerk fire your manager early in a season after a collapse, that you don't keep the interim guy who also collapsed (twice) for years and years and years.

[Edgy MD]

And if there was anybody with a comparably bullet-proof rep, it was Girardi. OK, it was Terry Francona, and then Girardi.



Fun Fackt I Had Forgotten: This was Maddon's third tenure for the Angels. He twice took over in September following a firing back in the 20th Century — first in 1996 and then in 1999. Name the two managers he finished the season for!



My sources say that Maddon is pissed he won't get to wear the City Connect uniform.

[Lefty Specialist]

One of those managers was Terry Collins.



Yeah, I though Maddon was untouchable. He's been stroked, though.

[nymr83]

The Athletic had a post firing interview up with him. He comes off as old school and hostile to analytics - unlike Buck who is old school but seems to have embraced the new Mets philosophy that you need to blend it all together in todays game. These philosophical differences may have led to the firing with the losing streak as the easy excuse