Today the big news around baseball is that Jamie Moyer made the Rockies starting rotation for the 2012 season. The stats and such are flying around the Twitterverse. You know, stuff like Moyer is 49 years old xx days and Satchel Paige was xxxx older or Moyer started his big league career before the Rockies were an organization or Moyer proposed to Tug McGraw’s daughter or Moyer’s first purchase with his first big league contract was a Ford Model T. You know, Moyer is old.
The one thing that did catch my eye was this tweet from Patrick Saunders:
#Rockies Moyer thanked Tracy. Tracy said: “I stopped him right there. I said thank you is not necessary because we don’t give handouts here.
Really?
Dan O’Dowd has a record of 852-931.
Jim Tracy has a record of 230-210 (156-168 since the beginning of 2010).
The GM and the Manager blame the players and clubhouse atmosphere for the disaster that was 2011. If the Manager cannot manage his team what is he being paid for?
He is getting paid for the indefinite future because he received an indefinite contract before Spring Training started (whatever that means and whatever that is worth). It sure seems like the team gives free handouts. At least in the front office they do.
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5 comments
Michael
April 2, 2012 at 6:21 AM (UTC -6)
I am sure you guys will look into Tulos plunking yesterday by Ubaldo but I just couldn’t believe the way Tracy was talking about Ubaldo. The organization always raved about his work ethic and class and Tracy in a weird leading way said that the clubhouse problems from last year are because of Ubaldo. I don’t remember hearing anything about this during his trade or the offseason, does anyone else?
Travis Lay
April 2, 2012 at 7:36 AM (UTC -6)
I believe Logan is writing something about Tubaldogate 2012 later today.
I dont care about what Tracy said yesterday, in fact I like it. What I really dont like is how it is up to the players to police the clubhouse and motivate each other. What does Tracy do, then, besides ruin the team’s chances with his poor in-game management? If Ubaldo was such an issue last year why didn’t the team do something about it? Put him on the DL, send him down, whatever?
Tracy is as much to blame for last year as anyone else. If there is trouble with your team (in sports or real life) as a manager you need to settle it and ensure your team can move on. If I had that same riff among my team I would HAVE to step in. What happened to a TWO TIME WS WINNER in Boston? Francona was shown the door for the beer and fried chicken stuff but Tracy gets an extension (indefinite or finite…whatever).
Simone
April 4, 2012 at 9:01 AM (UTC -6)
Ian Stewart is batting .300 with the Cubs in 17 Spring Training games. Am I the only one that thinks letting him go instead of letting him play was a VERY stupid move?
Travis Lay
April 4, 2012 at 9:10 AM (UTC -6)
In these parts you are far from the only one. Many of us last year wanted Stewart playing every day.
Simone
April 4, 2012 at 10:20 PM (UTC -6)
Especially after we knew the season was over (once DLR was hurt)…why not let the kid play and see what he’s made of? Maybe find a way to light a fire under his ass. His defense was great and his batting could have been good with the right guidance, motivation, coaching, and playing time. Instead we got to watch the Tracy/Wiggy love affair all year long.
Ughhhh….makes me sick.
I remember when we drafted Stewart I was up in Casper going to college and went to the Casper Ghosts (at the time they were Casper Rockies) games and liked the kid from the start. I still have an Ian Stewart signed baseball from that year…an official Pioneer League baseball. I wonder if I can at least get some fish bait for it…summer is coming you know.