NY Post: Could Orioles tension set up Cal Ripken for manager?

[osfan83]

So if Buck went upstairs and wanted to hire Cal as manager you would be against it?

I would....Cal needs to prove he would be a good manager. Lots of great players in several sports turned out to be awful coaches/managers.

[fansince71]

I don't want Cal in the dugout in any way, shape or form as a manager...unless it's for another team.

Haters gonna hate.

[Morgan423]

At what point will you recognize that there are issues in EVERY organization? Can you imagine how the Giants must be crumbling...they are used to going to the post season...the tension must really high there.

Well, they're used to it every other year. 2015 was an odd year... they had no chance!

[O's84]

Who doesn't? But this is the horrible, vicious cycle called life and all of us born after 1983 won't know what that feeling of ecstasy is like.

I was born in 84, as you can probably guess from my username. Although to be fair even if they had won in 85 I still wouldn't have any memory of it.

[weams]

I was born in 84' date=' as you can probably guess from my username. Although to be fair even if they had won in 85 I still wouldn't have any memory of it.[/quote']

But this was the best team that anyone has seen.

Pos Player G AB R H Avg. HR RBI

C Chris Hoiles 99 320 45 83 .259 12 49

1B Rafael Palmeiro 158 614 95 156 .254 38 110

2B Roberto Alomar 112 412 64 137 .333 14 60

3B Cal Ripken, Jr. 162 615 79 166 .270 17 84

SS Mike Bordick 153 509 55 120 .236 7 46

LF B.J. Surhoff 147 528 80 150 .284 18 88

CF Brady Anderson 151 590 97 170 .288 18 73

RF Jeffrey Hammonds 118 397 71 105 .264 21 55

Other batters[edit]

Player G AB H Avg. HR RBI

Tony Tarasco 100 166 34 .205 7 26

Jeff Reboulet 99 228 54 .237 4 27

Lenny Webster 98 259 66 .255 7 37

Aaron Ledesma 43 88 31 .352 2 11

Eric Davis 42 158 48 .304 8 25

David Dellucci 17 27 6 .222 1 3

Pitching[edit]

Starting pitchers[edit]

Player G IP W L ERA SO

Jimmy Key 34 212.3 16 10 3.43 141

Scott Erickson 33 221.7 16 7 3.69 131

Mike Mussina 33 224.7 15 8 3.20 218

Scott Kamieniecki 30 179.3 10 6 4.01 109

Rick Krivda 10 50.0 4 2 6.30 29

Other pitchers[edit]

Player G IP W L ERA SO

Shawn Boskie 28 77.0 6 6 6.43 50

Mike Johnson 14 39.7 0 1 7.94 29

Nerio Rodr?guez 6 22.0 2 1 4.91 11

Rocky Coppinger 5 20.0 1 1 6.30 22

Esteban Yan 3 9.7 0 1 15.83 4

Relief pitchers[edit]

Player G IP W L SV ERA SO

Randy Myers 61 59.7 2 3 45 1.51 56

Armando Ben?tez 71 73.3 4 5 9 2.45 106

Jesse Orosco 71 50.3 6 3 0 2.32 46

Terry Mathews 57 63.3 4 4 1 4.41 39

Arthur Rhodes 53 95.3 10 3 1 3.02 102

Alan Mills 39 38.7 2 3 0 4.89 32

Brian Williams 13 24.0 0 0 0 3.00 14

[eddie83]

At what point will you recognize that there are issues in EVERY organization? Can you imagine how the Giants must be crumbling...they are used to going to the post season...the tension must really high there.

Oh please. This isn't a normal situation. Of course there is tension in every organization to an extent. How many GM's try to leave for a promotion like DD did? How many GM's deal with a manager with the power of Buck? Things were fine in Anaheim last year but when they struggled this year the GM left, those rumors were there for years. All this talk started back in winter last year. Can the media run with a story and sensationalize things? of course they can. If they turn it around next year things will be fine but if they don't then what?