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Originally Posted by Matty Lice
Do good baseball managers even exist? It seems like the good ones are bailed out by good players. Even a guy like Joe Maddon looks like a dope when his moves don't work out. A baseball manager seems like one of those jobs where as long as you limit the **** ups, you are considered to be good. Don't Mark Prior someone's arm off, don't bat the pitcher 8th, etc.
GMs/ownership have so much say in everything now, all the way down to the lineup and rotation, that there's less and less for the manager to do. This is very well what it might have come down to--Cashman might have wanted a good soldier who will fall in line with his day-to-day decisions, and Girardi wasn't willing to be that guy.