Eric Chavez emerging as favorite to replace Sosh

[Chuck]

Former All-Star third baseman Eric Chavez, a special assistant in the #Los Angeles Angels front office, has emerged as the favorite to replace Mike Scioscia as the Angels manager in 2019

— Bob Nightengale (@BNightengale) September 25, 2018

Make it happen, Eppler! I'm not a Scioscia hater, but I think it's time for a change.

[beatlesrule]

[failos]

[Angelsfan1984]

[Second Base]

I'm good with it. 

[IEAngelsfan]

As long as he manages the team better than his injuries (as a player), I'm on board.

[red321]

4 minutes ago, IEAngelsfan said:

As long as he manages the team better than his injuries (as a player), I'm on board.

Has a manager ever had to go on the DL because they pulled a hamstring while exchanging lineup cards?

[IEAngelsfan]

1 minute ago, red321 said:

Has a manager ever had to go on the DL because they pulled a hamstring while exchanging lineup cards?

There's always a first.

[Troll Daddy]

I’m not buying into Chavez just yet ... 

[Jobu]

Chavez DL jokes are the new lasagna jokes.

 

This is gonna be great.

[Angelsfan1984]

1 minute ago, Jobu said:

Chavez DL jokes are the new lasagna jokes.

 

This is gonna be great.

You need a manager who understands his players...who would understand his injured players more than a guy who lived on the DL

[Troll Daddy]

I have no clue what Chavez brings to the table  ... zero experience is the new phase nowadays 

 

[Troll Daddy]

We would be better off giving the job to Pujols ... think about it

[Jobu]

[Chuck]

9 minutes ago, Troll Daddy said:

We would be better off giving the job to Pujols ... think about it

[Chuck]

22 minutes ago, Troll Daddy said:

I have no clue what Chavez brings to the table  ... zero experience is the new phase nowadays 

You contradicted yourself with your Pujols take. 

Chavez has more coaching and managing experience than Pujols and is a propionate of advanced stats/metrics. He was a good ball player when healthy. Understands what defense means to success. 

[Troll Daddy]

13 minutes ago, Chuckster70 said:

You contradicted yourself with your Pujols take. 

Chavez has more coaching and managing experience than Pujols and is a propionate of advanced stats/metrics. He was a good ball player when healthy. Understands what defense means to success. 

I said that tongue in cheek ... sorry if I’m not supporting your guy . 

Although, Pujols might bring more to the table by being out of the lineup and salary off the books. He just might also be instrumental in a Trout extension. 

My guy is the hard nose Darin Erstad who will bench you if you’re not playing the game right. He’s not a players coach which I like. 

[m0nkey]

How does one emerge as a favorite at this stage?

[Jeff Fletcher]

3 minutes ago, Troll Daddy said:

I said that tongue in cheek ... sorry if I’m not supporting your guy . 

Although, Pujols might bring more to the table by being out of the lineup and salary off the books. He just might also be instrumental in a Trout extension. 

My guy is the hard nose Darin Erstad who will bench you if you’re not playing the game right. He’s not a players coach which I like. 

How do you know?

[Troll Daddy]

Just now, Jeff Fletcher said:

How do you know?

We talking Erstad?

[Jeff Fletcher]

1 minute ago, Troll Daddy said:

We talking Erstad?

Yes. How do you know how he’d treat major league players as the manager?

Edited September 25, 2018 by Jeff Fletcher

[m0nkey]

Bob Nightengale reported:

 

 

20 minutes later:

[T.G.]

If Erstad as a manager is anything like Erstad as a player then we can bank on him having one great year and then living off that one great season for a long time.  People won't notice the drop off in production because he's gritty.

[Troll Daddy]

21 minutes ago, Jeff Fletcher said:

Yes. How do you know how he’d treat major league players as the manager?

We don’t know but we do know how he treats his current team and we know how he played the game. 

https://bustedcoverage.com/2018/05/14/of-course-darin-erstad-benched-one-of-his-players-for-pimping-a-home-run/amp/

My bet is that if Pujols doesn’t run hard on a ground ball  ... he’ll be riding the pine. 

Trout would love Erstad imo

[mulwin444]

13 minutes ago, Troll Daddy said:

We don’t know but we do know how he treats his current team and we know how he played the game. 

https://bustedcoverage.com/2018/05/14/of-course-darin-erstad-benched-one-of-his-players-for-pimping-a-home-run/amp/

My bet is that if Pujols doesn’t run hard on a ground ball  ... he’ll be riding the pine.