Friday, July 02, 2004
No Time Like the Present
Bob Brenly was fired today as the D'Backs manager, having compiled a record 41 games over .500 in his three and a half years as manager and having taken his first team to a World's Series championship. I won't belabor the question yet again of managerial responsibility -- after all, it was Bucky Showalter who'd built the team, much as he built the early part of the Yankees dynasty for which Brian Cashman and Joe Torre get credit.
But usually these kinds of firings are done at the nadir of a team's performance. The Diamondbacks indeed had an 11-game losing streak broken this week -- followed by a two-game winning streak.
So I have a "tracer" type of question to ask -- how many managers have been fired following a team victory? How many were fired on a winning streak? How many have been fired with a winning record overall? And how many have been fired with a winning record during the season they were fired? (This last obviously doesn't apply to the Diamondbacks and Brenly.)
Anybody? Post on the message board.
posted by The Crank 1:26 PM
