Joe Maddon

The Guardians and Rangers split the doubleheader, tying 9-9 on the scoreboard. So, they will play again today to decide a winner. Winner goes to the World ...

Jose Ramirez likely would have doubled twice, or maybe even three times, in the later game, but he was robbed over and over again. Winner goes to the World Series, according to this sentence I just made up. The Guardians and Rangers split the doubleheader, tying 9-9 on the scoreboard.

The team announced that Phil Nevin has been named interim manager. The Angels were 10 games above .500 two weeks ago, but have since fallen to 27-29. The 12- ...

Maddon went on to a successful nine-year run with the Tampa Bay Rays, and in 2016 he led the Chicago Cubs to their first World Series championship in more than 100 years. I would really rely on the sentiments of the coaches and the players.” The 12-game losing streak ties a franchise record for a season, putting the Angels in danger of missing the postseason for the eighth straight year.

ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — Swapping out their manager didn't change the Los Angeles Angels' fortunes Tuesday night.

Boston took the lead with three runs in the second. Trout — who came into the game with one hit in his last 29 at-bats — then drove Garrett Whitlock’s sinker over the wall in center field for his 14th home run of the season and a 2-0 advantage. This is the first time Nevin has managed in the majors. José Suarez made his first start since April 30 and went a season-high five innings. He has seven years of managerial experience in the minors. Red Sox: Chris Sale (right rib stress fracture) did not throw his scheduled bullpen due to a stomach bug. Then I got to second base and a little achy and tried to be smart about it. “The bullpen did an amazing job. Interim boss Phil Nevin lost his managerial debut and Angels star Mike Trout exited with left groin tightness as Los Angeles tied the franchise mark for its longest skid set from 1988-89. There was no scan or MRI done after Trout left the game. “You saw the effort from everyone. Somebody needs to do it so why not me?”

Angels dismiss Joe Maddon on the heels of a 12-game losing streak.

2005 — Freshman Samantha Findlay hits a three-run homer in the 10th inning to lead Michigan to a 4-1 win over UCLA for its first NCAA softball title. I want to be able to do that, and I want to bring that juice each and every day to practice and fuel the team.” The shot clock was last reduced, from 45 to 35 seconds, in 1993-94. From Helene Elliott: Darvin Ham was still new to the coaching business in 2011, working his third professional job and first with an NBA team. “It’s not your way or my way but what’s the best way to go forward? Williams has already been hired as the associate head coach of the Auburn women’s basketball team, a role he accepted last month and was expected to start in mid-summer. “After a thorough evaluation of the state of our team, the Sparks and GM/Head Coach Derek Fisher have agreed to part ways,” managing partner Eric Holoman said in the team’s statement. The five-year veteran is coming off a historic season. He and manager Dave Roberts conversed for several minutes, Roberts keeping an arm draped around the outfield most of the time. “He’s very well liked in the clubhouse and organization. “On behalf of our ownership group, I want to thank Derek for his efforts and contributions to the Sparks franchise. He was manager Mike Scioscia’s bench coach when the Angels won the World Series in 2002

The team announced that Phil Nevin has been named interim manager. The Angels were 10 games above .500 two weeks ago, but have since fallen to 27-29. The 12- ...

Maddon went on to a successful nine-year run with the Tampa Bay Rays, and in 2016 he led the Chicago Cubs to their first World Series championship in more than 100 years. I would really rely on the sentiments of the coaches and the players.” The 12-game losing streak ties a franchise record for a season, putting the Angels in danger of missing the postseason for the eighth straight year.

Despite losing the last 12 games he managed, Joe Maddon doesn't feel as though he was the problem. It was analytics I tell ya! The Angles fired Maddon on.

He finished his Los Angles tenure with a 157-172 record. “It’s not to point the finger at just one particular person. “It’s been kind of difficult overall.

Having a six-man rotation isn't ideal, but Maddon far from blameless.

If the Angels have a stopper, they have to wait an extra day to see him on the mound and if the slide continues, it’s another six games before they can try again. It may take another whack or two before the Angels can figure out what a team with a six-man rotation and a limited pen by the rules looks like so it can compete. The Angels are 10th in MLB in innings from their starters for the year, but 23rd the past two weeks during this run of confusion and sadness. Maddon certainly didn’t use his pen very creatively, as he only has one multiple-inning guy out there in Jaime Barria. Considering that the Angels have to roll with six starters, which means one less reliever than most, they probably need more than that. Still, there is something about the way the Angels have to build their team thanks to Ohtani being around. It’s not on Maddon that 2021 MVP Shohei Ohtani has been a walk or a strikeout of late and not much else.

The LA Angels will be under new management as the team fires Joe Maddon during the ...

Now, Phil Nevin might bring the polar opposite of what Joe Maddon is in that Nevin brings a fiery presence and is not afraid to let an umpire here it. It might have been the right time to get a new look at things with time to still save their season. There's no doubt that Maddon is probably one of the nicest guys in baseball and understands player chemistry.

Maddon does have a better winning percentage than Bochy, Piniella and Leyland, but he's behind Baker and Scioscia. There is, of course, the possibility that a ...

They were a wild card in 2018 and that marked the first time in franchise history the Cubs were in postseason play four consecutive seasons. The turnaround was already in process -- so, to be clear, it would be folly to give Maddon even close to sole credit -- but he still took over a Cubs team that won 73 games in 2014. Then Piniella, Leyland and Scioscia would be contemporaries in a similar ballpark in the discussion and I believe it's worth throwing Johnson in that mix as well. The Rays were still the Devil Rays when Maddon took over prior to the 2006 season and they were the embarrassment of baseball. The circumstances illustrated above certainly push him up into the territory where a discussion is worthy, but he's in line behind Bochy -- along with Baker and Terry Francona (he wasn't mentioned above because he's an easy and obvious yes) once they retire. It should also be noted that Hall of Fame managers are inducted via era committees and never go through a BBWAA vote, which means it'll be a panel of 12 voters. There is, of course, the possibility that a number of the above names gets into the Hall of Fame at some point in the near future. Though Maddon has a great track record, he now hasn't had a winning record since 2019, hasn't made the playoffs since 2018 and hasn't been to the divisional round of the playoffs since 2017. They each won one World Series. Maddon was 32-35 in the playoffs while Herzog was 26-25. In 2008, the Rays won 97 games and the AL pennant. Of course, Davey Johnson won 1,372 games with a .562 winning percentage. In parts of 19 seasons, Maddon won 1,382 games, which is 31st in MLB history, but he'll be 32nd soon enough ( Padres manager Bob Melvin has 1,380 right now). While Maddon is ahead of a decent number of Hall of Famers here, sitting outside the top 30 doesn't exactly make him a volume candidate.

They haven't won since, however, and with their losing streak reaching 12 games, on Tuesday they fired manager Joe Maddon and named Phil Nevin as interim ...

Brooklyn-based Jay Jaffe is a senior writer for FanGraphs, the author of The Cooperstown Casebook (Thomas Dunne Books, 2017) and the creator of the JAWS (Jaffe WAR Score) metric for Hall of Fame analysis. It’s not his fault that Trout and Ohtani went into slumps, a couple key players got injured and a solid rotation hit a rough patch, but every manager is hired to be fired, as the saying goes, and in this case, the Angels couldn’t resist the easy move. This year’s middle infield, which entered the season ranked 26th at second base and 23rd at shortstop in our preseason Positional Power Rankings, has combined for 0.5 WAR, with Andrew Velazquez hitting for a 42 wRC+ as the regular shortstop and Wade and Luis Rengifo getting most of the work at second. The bullpen, however, is another story, ranking dead last in the AL with a 4.30 FIP, and 13th with both a 4.29 ERA and a 22% strikeout rate. I said you just try to reduce the information you’re giving, try to be aware of who’s giving the information and really be aware of when it’s time to stay out of the way. While he’s been conservative about letting his starters face batters for a third time — the Angels entered Tuesday ranked 19th in the total number of batters faced under such circumstances — his pitchers held opponents to a .296 wOBA in that context, the majors’ fifth-lowest mark. He didn’t have the same luxury on the Angels; Tyler Wade is no Ben Zobrist, and Rendon no Kris Bryant. With their stars-and-scrubs rosters and injuries galore, in both 2020 and ’21 Maddon’s lineups had the platoon advantage in less than 50% of their plate appearances, and only this year are they above that mark. That’s a lot of bad fortune at once, and it particularly didn’t help that the Yankees — the hottest team in baseball and off to the majors’ best start in 21 years — teed off on both Noah Syndergaard (2.1 innings, five runs) and Shohei Ohtani (three innings, four runs). After the latter got only three swings and misses via his 75 pitches, Maddon suggested he was tipping his pitches, telling reporters, “I’m not accusing anybody of anything except that they’re good at it. We’ve struggled on the mound, we’ve struggled at the plate, we’ve struggled defensively, we’ve struggled baserunning. The losing streak is the longest in the majors this year and the longest single-season skid in franchise history; it matches a wraparound streak of 13 straight that spanned from late 1988 to early ’89 (a stretch that encompassed the entirety of the Moose Stubing managerial era, such as it was). The current streak, which offsets what had been the team’s best 44-game start since 2004, has dropped the Angels to 27–30, 9.5 games behind the first-place Astros and 2.5 out of the third Wild Card spot. They haven’t won since, however, and with their losing streak reaching 12 games, on Tuesday they fired manager Joe Maddon and named Phil Nevin as interim manager for the remainder of the season, then dropped their 13th straight game with a 10-inning loss to the Red Sox. He explained afterward that he cramped up while legging out the double, told Nevin, “I need to be a little careful with this,” and did not seem overly concerned beyond that.