Mottola and Murphy Leave Coaching Staff

[fatcowxlive]

Are you kidding me?

 

What the actual f***. Why is Mottola getting fired? s***, even with Bautista and Rasmus out in the last ~1.5 months the offence was still good.

 

So is Pete Walker staying? I mean the starting ERA is through the roof, and yet Motolla get fired??

 

This is why our franchise is going nowhere

[RickyWalks]

I'm so excited for 2014!

[BabbaGanoush]

Promoting DeRosa into pseudo-retirement would probably be a greater net benefit to the 2014 Blue Jays than hiring any single specific free agent hitting coach out there.

IDK, call me crazy but I like to think that coaches actually have some value. Especially hitting coaches paired with young hitters.

[imsorry4beatinU]

soooo our Starting pitchers were s*** show but we get rid of our hitting coach who made progress with players

[Olerud363]

Watch Cito come out of retirement to coach...He'll turn those wussy oppo hits from Lawrie in to homeruns for sure!

 

Don't joke about that. Cito got fired in 97... He was literally gone for only two seasons... then he was hitting coach again by fall of 99.

[The_DH]

We only need one more pitcher.

[Angrioter]

Promoting DeRosa into pseudo-retirement would probably be a greater net benefit to the 2014 Blue Jays than hiring any single specific free agent hitting coach out there.

 

Are you kidding me?

 

What the actual f***. Why is Mottola getting fired? s***, even with Bautista and Rasmus out in the last ~1.5 months the offence was still good.

 

So is Pete Walker staying? I mean the starting ERA is through the roof, and yet Motolla get fired??

 

This is why our franchise is going nowhere

 

FO debate

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wz-PtEJEaqY

[Abomination]

Watch Cito come out of retirement to coach...He'll turn those wussy oppo hits from Lawrie in to homeruns for sure!

 

NOT funny... I'm going to have nightmares about that for the next 6 months.

 

As others have said, there has to be more to this. Glad to see Murphy gone, but Chad seemed like a perfect fit.

[Convo]

Chad is a pretty good looking man. I imagine he slept with somebody's wife.

[Angrioter]

Chad is a pretty good looking man. I imagine he slept with somebody's wife.

 

I'll steal you quote

[Angrioter]

Chad is a pretty good looking man. I imagine he slept with somebody's wife.

 

[Jays]

You know how we look at the phillies organization? That's how the rest of the mlb looks at us

[o2cui2i]

Why the f*** would Mottola be fired?

 

because it makes the least sense to anyone who has a clue?

[GD]

You know how we look at the phillies organization? That's how the rest of the mlb looks at us

 

Only we aren't quite in the stage of "WHY DON'T THEY REBUILD ALREADY?"

 

But we will be.

 

We will be.

[o2cui2i]

Only we aren't quite in the stage of "WHY DON'T THEY REBUILD ALREADY?"

 

But we will be.

 

We will be.

 

most would say that AA is in denial, but that would be insinuating that he had some idea of what he was doing.

[kgm1]

This is hard to believe . I was thinking thank god we will finally be rid of Murphy and Mottola can do his thing . This just doesn't make sense. Must have not got along with the rest of the staff

[o2cui2i]

This is hard to believe . I was thinking thank god we will finally be rid of Murphy and Mottola can do his thing . This just doesn't make sense. Must have not got along with the rest of the staff

 

CM's views go against everything that JPA thinks and AA's gut tells him that JPA is a baseball god, so CM goes and JPA stays. blame the gut.

[fatcowxlive]

 

LOL nice way to turn that post into recognition on Twitter LOL

[o2cui2i]

pitching and defense sucked all year so obviously you blame your hitting coach. makes perfect sense when you think back to AA saying that Bonifacio was the key to the Miami deal? sphincter says what ?

 

oh my God!! there's a drunken mad man at the wheel and he's driving us straight into the abyss.

[Abomination]

I suspect this was Gibbon's decision rather than AA's. Maybe Chad and Gibbons simply didn't get along.

[o2cui2i]

I suspect this was Gibbon's decision rather than AA's. Maybe Chad and Gibbons simply didn't get along.

 

yeah, because it's obviously the hitting coaches fault that half the team cant hit because it cant have anything to do with the front office's inability to evaluate talent.

[jays_fever]

You guys are still making the mistake of caring to much. Nothing this organization makes any sense..why would they all of a sudden start to use logic and reason now

[Abomination]

yeah, because it's obviously the hitting coaches fault that half the team cant hit because it cant have anything to do with the front office's inability to evaluate talent.

 

I'd love to know exactly what you think you read from my post...

[Candy Maldonado]

I still don't understand why they kept putting Melky in the outfield when he could barely move.

[Abomination]

I still don't understand why they kept putting Melky in the outfield when he could barely move.

 

They did that the previous year with Yunel and Johnson too. The pitcher feels the slightest thing and they're out 6 weeks. A batter can barely walk and they're playing the field regularly. Doesn't make sense.

[flafson]

I guess we will know sooner or later if that was a bad call or not. If it was, it will probably be AA's head that will come off next year.

[ElNik2013]

This is hilariously sad. I know several have said 'why Mottola and not Pete Walker' and it makes some sense given the rotation's struggles, but I would say that it's wrong for AA to fire anyone at all because it was his decision to bring back Gibbons. It was his decision to hire rookies as hitting and pitching coaches. It was his decision to let go of a well-regarded coach in Butterfield by keeping him in limbo. It was his decision to replace Murphy as the hitting coach with Mottola, but still kept him around as the 1b coach because he didn't have the balls to flat out fire him.

 

I know it's too much to ask of the media types that cover this organization, but I just dream of someone taking AA to task for his moves beginning with the Happ trade, I won't hold my breath though.

[ElNik2013]

I'll preface this by saying that I never read Jays content from the media that isn't posted here, but I really don't recall ever seeing/hearing AA be asked a tough question about a questionable move. Has anyone in the media ever grilled him?

 

I don't read much outside of links posted here either so I don't recall anyone grilling him. I've wondered if it has something to do with his being Canadian, I know it may sound silly, but it makes me wonder. Maybe because they called him the "wunderkind", they feel they'd be admitting to being wrong about him, who knows. The guy has really gone full retard. I do suspect Beeston is very involved in a lot of the dealings, but still.

[o2cui2i]

I'll preface this by saying that I never read Jays content from the media that isn't posted here, but I really don't recall ever seeing/hearing AA be asked a tough question about a questionable move. Has anyone in the media ever grilled him?

 

Rogers owns all the media and the last time any of their pundits question the jays Wilner almost got fired for it. they dont ask question he would actually have to answer because they'd have to leave Canada to work in media if they did

[o2cui2i]

I don't read much outside of links posted here either so I don't recall anyone grilling him. I've wondered if it has something to do with his being Canadian, I know it may sound silly, but it makes me wonder. Maybe because they called him the "wunderkind", they feel they'd be admitting to being wrong about him, who knows. The guy has really gone full retard. I do suspect Beeston is very involved in a lot of the dealings, but still.

 

jays have 2 guys with business degrees and no knowledge of baseball leading the company and they're not even good business people.