Butcher and Baylor fired

[Thomas]

Mike DiGiovanna â€@MikeDiGiovanna  57s57 seconds ago

#Angels have fired pitching coach Mike Butcher and hitting coach Don Baylor.

 

[ettin]

What!!!!!???? Oh my.

[Angelsfirst]

Wow, here we go..

[FabulousFabregas]

Hopefully the Fat Man is next.

[Angelsfirst]

Bring in Salmon or Bengie for hitting coach?

[Tyler]

Wow! Third base coach next please.

[Oz27]

No complaints here. We had way too many underperforming players on both sides.

 

Stating the obvious I know, but bringing Bud Black back would be awesome.

[FabulousFabregas]

[Ohtaniland]

Lol that they fire everybody except who they need to fire.

[laagamer]

Oh shit. Nice.

[laagamer]

Lol that they fire everybody except who they need to fire.

Silly CALZONE, you can't fire Arte. He owns the team.

[Jobu]

I'll enjoy reading about this every time Scioscia talks about how there's no friction between him and Eppler.

[FabulousFabregas]

Prediction: Bud Black and Darin Erstad hired as replacements.  If Angels tank next year Erstad or Black replace Scioscia.

[bloodbrother]

How did DiSar survive the first wave of firings?

[ettin]

I've been sitting here for a few minutes processing this and I'm still surprised Baylor was fired. Butcher is even surprising to a degree considering his relationship with Scioscia.

Scapegoat city?

Stunning. If Scioscia wasn't fully on board with this, I can only imagine what's next.

Edited October 14, 2015 by ettin

[FabulousFabregas]

How did DiSar survive the first wave of firings?

He waved Eppler home.

[Oz27]

How did DiSar survive the first wave of firings?

Yes that is concerning. Surely it's still coming, right?

[FabulousFabregas]

I've been sitting here for a few minutes processing this and I'm still surprised Baylor was fired. Butcher is even surprising to a degree considering his relationship with Scioscia. Scapegoat city? Stunning. If Scioscia wasn't fully on board with this, I can only imagine what's next.

Scioscia fires Eppler and is named Manager/GM/Dictator of Angels.

[Oz27]

I've been sitting here for a few minutes processing this and I'm still surprised Baylor was fired. Butcher is even surprising to a degree considering his relationship with Scioscia. Scapegoat city? Stunning. If Scioscia wasn't fully on board with this, I can only imagine what's next.

Yeah if he lost his shit to such an extent about Hatcher, imagine how he is going to feel about losing two coaches because a GM we hired five minutes ago fired them.

[disarcina]

We need to get Bud Black back and while we are at it, perhaps get Ron Roenecke back as well -- how we let the Dodgers get him after his firing from Milwaukee is beyond me.

 

Yes -- I would move Gary DiSarcina to some other organizational role -- minor league player development or something ---

 

Halos seemed to lead the league the past two years on runners thrown out at third base and home plate -- and during a time when the somewhat new (now two years old) "Posey Rule" makes it a lot more difficult to get thrown out at the plate because catchers can't do their job and block the plate anymore,

[Ohtaniland]

I've been sitting here for a few minutes processing this and I'm still surprised Baylor was fired. Butcher is even surprising to a degree considering his relationship with Scioscia.

Scapegoat city?

Stunning. If Scioscia wasn't fully on board with this, I can only imagine what's next.

What's next is coming just as soon as Mattingly gets fired. Scioscia will be jumping ship.

[bloodbrother]

I mean, the 3B coach isn't really that big of a deal but DiSar is THAT bad of a 3B coach that he needs to go.

[disarcina]

I don't see Darin Erstad coming here -- he seems to have a pretty good gig in Nebraska.........not sure if he'd give that up to live in S. Cal and travel all the time.

[seenoevil]

Sosh had them fired ha

[tdawg87]

This is weird.