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Post by Lark11 on Oct 29, 2015 8:54:17 GMT -5
Bernie Pleskoff @berniepleskoff 2m2 minutes ago There are reports that #Bluejays GM Alex Anthopoulos has been offered a contract extension but has resigned instead. Not confirmed yet.
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Post by yorak on Oct 29, 2015 9:48:02 GMT -5
He got sick of fleecing Walt.
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Post by psuhistory on Oct 29, 2015 14:17:55 GMT -5
GM Anthopoulos Leaving Jays With New President Taking Over By Associated Press/NY Times, 10/29/2015
TORONTO — Toronto Blue Jays general manager Alex Anthopoulos left the team on the day he was selected executive of the year by his peers, rejecting an offer to remain in what might have been a diminished role under its new president.
The team announcement Thursday comes as former Cleveland Indians President Mark Shapiro takes over as Toronto's new president on Monday. Shapiro replaces Paul Beeston, who is retiring.
The Sporting News announced Anthopoulos was named executive of the year on Thursday. He acquired MVP candidate Josh Donaldson in the offseason and traded for David Price and Troy Tulowitzki before the deadline to give Toronto its first playoff spot since 1993.
"I don't know that I've had to make a harder decision in my life, but I did what I felt like I needed to do," Anthopoulos said. "I just didn't feel like this was a right fit for me going forward."
He declined to give a specific reason but said it wasn't about money and that Rogers Communications, the team owner, was generous in its offer to him. However, Anthopoulos didn't sound pleased when he noted that Rogers announced it was a five-year offer.
Anthopoulos declined to say whether Shapiro might have wanted more of a say in baseball operations than Beeston, the outgoing president.
An official familiar with the situation said there was never any conversation with Anthopoulos regarding role or decision making. The official spoke on condition [of anonymity] because he was not authorized to speak publicly about it.
The departure of Anthopoulos comes less than a week after the Blue Jays were eliminated from the playoffs.
Shapiro, who has had several prominent roles in nearly 24 years with Cleveland, becomes the Blue Jays' president and CEO on Monday. He previously served as general manager of the Indians before being promoted to president.
"After an exciting 2015 season, Alex Anthopoulos has reluctantly and regrettably decided that he is not going to return to the Toronto Blue Jays Baseball Club for 2016," Beeston said in a statement.
Edward Rogers, Chairman of the Toronto Blue Jays and a part of the ownership group, said in a statement that Anthopoulos did a fine job over six seasons and turned down a five-year offer.
"We would have loved it if he stayed with the club. Like the fans, we too are disappointed he has chosen not to accept our five-year contract offer, but we wish him the very best," Rogers said. "Alex leaves behind an outstanding front office team and coaching staff that played a key role in shaping the team's great run this season. They will continue to operate in leadership roles next year as we look to build upon the team's success."
Anthopoulos said he found out he was chosen executive of the year just before he got on a conference call with media to talk about his departure with the Blue Jays.
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Post by redsfanman on Oct 29, 2015 18:25:45 GMT -5
www.mlbtraderumors.com/2015/10/marlins-to-dismiss-dan-jennings.htmlMarlins Dismiss Dan Jennings By Jeff Todd | October 29, 2015 at 5:06pm CDT 5:44pm: The Marlins have announced that Jennings has been relieved of his duties. Miami won’t hire a replacement, but will instead shift his former responsibilities over to Hill while also increasing Berger’s role. 5:06pm: The Marlins have decided to “dismiss” now-former general manager and manager Dan Jennings, Barry Jackson of the Miami Herald reports on Twitter. Jennings, of course, was still under contract for three more seasons, meaning that Miami will likely remain on the hook for the $5.6MM left on his contract (though it could be offset when he’s hired elsewhere). Jennings, 55, has been with the Miami organization since 2002. He served as the club’s general manager — working alongside president of baseball operations Michael Hill — from 2013 through the middle of 2015. After the team fired manager Mike Redmond in May, Jennings moved into the skipper’s seat in an eyebrow-raising move that didn’t pan out. Though Jennings wasn’t able to turn around a disappointing club that he had a major hand in compiling, he is said to have managed to earn the trust of his players in spite of the odd situation. And while the Fish weren’t able to match their (arguably unreasonable) expectations, Jennings remains a highly-respected executive. Indeed, Bob Nightengale of USA Today notes on Twitter that Jennings has already drawn interest from other teams looking for assistant general managers. While the move is somewhat surprising, given Jennings’s deep ties to the Miami organization and owner Jeffrey Loria, Nightengale adds that Jennings was hoping to be released from his obligations to pursue new opportunities. It appeared that his front office standing may have been marginalized while he was in the dugout, with the club having handed off some of his duties to VP and assistant GM Mike Berger. Club president David Samson said just weeks ago that Jennings was still the general manager, but it seemed even at that time that there was a lot to be worked out for the relationship to continue. During his time in the GM chair, Jennings played a key role in a number of big moves. Most notably, perhaps, the club extended outfielders Giancarlo Stanton and Christian Yelich, with the former receiving a record $325MM guarantee. ---------- I actually met Marlins President of Baseball Operations Michael Hill briefly this summer (the only baseball executive I've ever spoken with), when the Marlins were in town, shortly after Dan Jennings moved to manager. I asked him something about if that sudden change causes problems, or makes him much busier or something... he just laughed and said Jennings wasn't much of a ... I forget what he called it... front office decision making guy or something... anyway. However he said it, he certainly implied that Jennings wasn't making the big decisions even when he was GM. He sure didn't seem to think that Jennings was irreplaceable or anything like that. So, I'm not surprised Jennings is out. I just wonder if becoming the manager hastened his demise...
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Post by kinsm on Nov 18, 2015 18:36:29 GMT -5
Former Padres skipper and Angels pitching coach Bud Black will return to the Halos as a member of their front office, reports MLB.com’s Alden Gonzalez.
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Post by kinsm on Nov 18, 2015 18:38:37 GMT -5
ESPN.com’s Jerry Crasnick reports that Gabe Kapler and Dave Roberts are the two finalists for the LAD job. Second interviews with finalists are ongoing, with the club expected to make its decision this Friday or Saturday. With Kapler and Roberts apparently the final two names under consideration, Los Angeles seems set to go with a skipper that has not previously run a big league dugout.
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Post by kinsm on Nov 22, 2015 20:40:40 GMT -5
Dodgers are expected to hire Dave Roberts tomorrow.
LA Times
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Post by psuhistory on Dec 3, 2015 20:26:41 GMT -5
Blue Jays Name Ross Atkins General Manager Associated Press/ESPN.com, 12/3/2015
The Toronto Blue Jays have named Indians executive Ross Atkins as their executive vice president of baseball operations and general manager.
Atkins most recently served as the Indians' vice president of player personnel. He joins the front office along with Mark Shapiro, his good friend and a fellow longtime Indians front-office executive who was named president and CEO of the Blue Jays in early July. That led then-GM Alex Anthopoulos, considered the architect of the Blue Jays' first playoff team since 1993, to reject a five-year contract extension to remain on the same day he was named executive of the year. A Canadian, his departure did not go over well with the Toronto's fan base.
Tony LaCava, an assistant to Anthopoulos since 2007, was promoted to senior vice president of baseball operations and assistant GM. He served as interim general manager and was a candidate for the job. Before joining the Blue Jays, LaCava worked with Shapiro in Cleveland in 2002.
Atkins pitched in the Cleveland organization before joining its front office. He worked with the team's pitching prospects before becoming the assistant farm director in 2001. He worked as the club's director of Latin American operations for three years and ran the farm system from 2007 to 2014.
Atkins interviewed in the past for GM openings in Los Angeles and Philadelphia.
Shapiro, a former general manager with Cleveland, became Toronto's new president in November. He replaced Paul Beeston, who retired after years of running the business side of the Blue Jays.
The Blue Jays will introduce Atkins at a press conference in Toronto on Friday.
The Blue Jays have made several offseason moves, including agreeing to a $36 million, three-year contract with lefty J.A. Happ; acquiring 32-year-old righty Jesse Chavez in exchange for Liam Hendriks; and avoiding arbitration by agreeing to a $3.9 million, one-year contract with first baseman Justin Smoak. They also have exercised 2016 options on sluggers Jose Bautista and Edwin Encarnacion and knuckleballer R.A. Dickey.
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Post by psuhistory on Dec 4, 2015 15:00:31 GMT -5
As the market for flax seed futures goes bullish...
Marlins Add Barry Bonds to Staff Associated Press/ESPN.com, 12/4/2015
Barry Bonds is joining the Miami Marlins' staff as a hitting coach, the team announced Friday.
Bonds most recently played in the majors in 2007. He has worked as a special instructor for the San Francisco Giants during spring training the past two seasons.
Bonds holds Major League Baseball's record for career home runs with 762. He hit 73 homers in 2001, an MLB record for a single season, and had a career batting average of .298 over 22 seasons with the Pittsburgh Pirates and Giants.
After retiring, Bonds was indicted in December 2007 for his testimony before a grand jury investigating the Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative and its distribution of illegal performance-enhancing drugs. Bonds told the grand jury he didn't realize the substances he used were illegal PEDs. He was convicted of an obstruction charge in 2011, but an 11-judge 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel overturned the conviction in April.
Bonds has been denied entry into the sport's Hall of Fame by baseball writers largely due to his PED use. This year, he appeared on 36.8 percent of ballots -- less than half the 75 percent needed.
Bonds joins the staff of Don Mattingly, who recently became the Marlins' seventh manager since June 2010. One of the players Bonds will tutor is $325 million slugger Giancarlo Stanton.
The team also said Friday that last year's hitting coach, Frank Menechino, will return as assistant hitting coach. Miami hired Tim Wallach as bench coach and Juan Nieves as pitching coach.
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Post by kinsm on Dec 6, 2015 20:29:25 GMT -5
Lloyd McClendon, who was dismissed by the Seattle Mariners, has been hired by the Detroit Tigers to take over as manager of the Toledo Mud Hens.
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