Orioles Retain Trembley/Minor News
It’s official: DT will be back in the fold next year, and the club has added a team option for the 2010 season.
This move should surprise nobody, but I’m glad AndyMac and company ended the suspense. It was getting kind of silly hearing/reading all the talk about how the team was “dragging their feet” and how maybe they “weren’t happy” with the job Trembley has done. Please.
This is a step in the right direction, toward stability and a better team culture. It doesn’t turn Brian Burres into a 15 game winner, but it’s a nice piece of news amidst these terrible doldrums.
The team also traded for a middle reliever and announced some more callups. Nothing earth-shaking.
The Bowie Baysox, meanwhile, are tied up 1-1 in their series with the Akron Aeros. Nolan Reimold had three — three — home runs in game two. Game three is tonight at Akron.
Strikes me that most people who WERE saying “they’re dragging their feet” were saying that because…
The O’s were dragging their feet.
Simple enough.
I wonder why they dragged their feet on this, and why they decided now, in the midst of this crappy month to change their mind? I figured they were just gonna do it in October after the season ended for whatever reason. All’s well that ends well, I guess.
I like Trembley a lot as a manager. Sure he has a few strange pitching decisions under his belt, but hey – you can’t make chicken salad with the chicken shit that is this pitching staff. Glad he’ll be back.
The thing, for me, is that I never saw it as dragging their feet. Is there a “normal” or “right” time to announce something like this? If most teams pick up managerial/coaching options earlier than this, then I agree it was weird to wait. From my perspective, though, this seems like pretty normal stuff.
Are you serious?
Andy has been taking a slow, methodical and calculated to nearly Every Move he has made thus far (key example the bedard trade)
Your comment gives the impression that you’re not satisfied with the way they handled the extension. Or are you simply arguing semantics?
I’m just curious. Two easy questions. No need for the standard DF lecture about the time “when Baltimore gleamed in supernatural ecstasy”
I don’t think it’s brain surgery
The extenstion was a no brainer
Things like this take time to work
So it gets put on the back burner…while they play baseball games
Remember the baseball games?
So, as the season tailspins to the fiery crash of a finish we’ve grown to love, the Baseball Minds figure, hey let’s push the DT annoucement out a little early and see if it sparks the boys for the home stretch
I’m ok with that. If there is a preferrable way they “should” have gone about it, I’d be up to read it.
If, in fact, they’re looking to “spark the team”, why do it now?
Why wouldn’t they have announced DT’s return back in July when the team – for the first time since Clinton was President – was actually semi-competitive and in need, perhaps, of a “spark”?
My guess is that MacPhail intended to renew DT all along but caught wind of some of the locker room friction and needed some time to weed through it and make sure bringing DT back in ’09 didn’t do more harm than good with the players.
They must not be OVERLY thrilled with Trembley or they wouldn’t keep bush-leagueing him with these one year deals. There are people who work for Coca Cola who have better contracts than
DT.
I don’t think he’s a great X’s and O’s manager but I think he’s a good man. He’s a stand up guy who has been given a shitburger team to work with and they won’t find anyone else around to work with this crop of guys he’s been handed for $600k or whatever it is they’re underpaying him in ’08.
Are there better managers in the big leagues? No doubt. But you can’t make wine without good grapes.
Given how well those multi year managerial deals often work out, especially in Baltimore – I’m okay with one year deals. Better than giving out a 3 year contract to Dusty Baker. Besides, everything I’ve seen indicates that Trembley isn’t upset that he doesn’t have a longer contract. So cool. Now – back to those pesky games and stocking up those pesky young talented guys.
Go Baysox!
I’m changing my mind. Trembley deserves a ten year deal. Why? Just read his explanation of F-Cab’s departure:
“I think you always make evaluations based on performance first,” Trembley said. “Not everybody here is a milkshake drinker. They’re not all guys that you’d want to bring home and introduce to your daughters. You understand that. But performance is the bottom line. I didn’t see Fernando Cabrera fitting in on this club next year. I think we can do better. I told him I appreciated what he did, but I didn’t see him making this club coming out of spring training.”
Brilliant. Give that man a contract. I think I’ll buy a road Baltimore Trembley jersey this Christmas.