Internal manager candidates

[Frobby]

Sorry to make a separate thread for this, but I have a specific question.   If we were to choose someone already affiliated with the Orioles to be the new manager, who would you want it to be?     For this purpose, you can include retired players we think of as Orioles so long as they’re not affiliated with another organization now, or any of the O’s current major or minor league coaches?

Tony, if you read this, I’d be particularly interested in your views  as to who your top choice among our minor league coaches would be.    I’d think Ron Johnson and Gary Kendall both deserve some consideration.  

By the way, I by no means intend to imply that I think our search should be confined in this way.   I’m just curious who people would choose if we went that direction.   

[Tx Oriole]

17 minutes ago, Frobby said:

Sorry to make a separate thread for this, but I have a specific question.   If we were to choose someone already affiliated with the Orioles to be the new manager, who would you want it to be?     For this purpose, you can include retired players we think of as Orioles so long as they’re not affiliated with another organization now, or any of the O’s current major or minor league coaches?

Tony, if you read this, I’d be particularly interested in your views  as to who your top choice among our minor league coaches would be.    I’d think Ron Johnson and Gary Kendall both deserve some consideration.  

By the way, I by no means intend to imply that I think our search should be confined in this way.   I’m just curious who people would choose if we went that direction.   

I have no idea Frobby. 

[Il BuonO]

27 minutes ago, Frobby said:

Sorry to make a separate thread for this, but I have a specific question.   If we were to choose someone already affiliated with the Orioles to be the new manager, who would you want it to be?     For this purpose, you can include retired players we think of as Orioles so long as they’re not affiliated with another organization now, or any of the O’s current major or minor league coaches?

Tony, if you read this, I’d be particularly interested in your views  as to who your top choice among our minor league coaches would be.    I’d think Ron Johnson and Gary Kendall both deserve some consideration.  

By the way, I by no means intend to imply that I think our search should be confined in this way.   I’m just curious who people would choose if we went that direction.   

Johnson and Kendall certainly merit consideration, but @Luke-OH suggestion of Buck Britton would be a bold move. That’s how I know he won’t get it.

Beyond that, I thought John Russell got a raw deal in Pittsburgh. The teams he managed were horrible. He had no shot of winning there. He’d get an interview from me.

[Tx Oriole]

5 minutes ago, Il BuonO said:

Johnson and Kendall certainly merit consideration, but @Luke-OH suggestion of Buck Britton would be a bold move. That’s how I know he won’t get it.

Beyond that, I thought John Russell got a raw deal in Pittsburgh. The teams he managed were horrible. He had no shot of winning there. He’d get an interview from me.

Why not? 

[wildcard]

Bobby Dickerson  Managed 10 years in the minors with a .539 win percentage.

Managing

 

Year	Age	Tm	Lg	Lev	Aff		G	W	L	W-L%
10 Seasons							1556	838	717	.539
AA (5 seasons)							974	531	442	.546
AAA (3 seasons)							377	191	186	.507
Rk (2 seasons)							137	82	55	.599
FgW (1 season)							68	34	34	.500
1996	30	Bluefield	APPY	Rk	BAL	1 of 1	68	42	26	.618
1997	31	Bluefield	APPY	Rk	BAL	1 of 1	69	40	29	.580
2000	34	El Paso	TL	AA	ARI	1 of 1	141	74	66	.529
2002	36	West Tenn	SOUL	AA	CHC	1 of 1	140	73	67	.521
2003	37	West Tenn	SOUL	AA	CHC	1 of 1	138	65	73	.471
2004	38	West Tenn	SOUL	AA	CHC	1 of 1	138	70	68	.507
2005	39	West Tenn	SOUL	AA	CHC	1 of 1	139	83	56	.597
2005	39	West Tenn	SOUL	AA	CHC	1 of 1	139	83	56	.597
2005	39	West Tenn	SOUL	AA	CHC	1 of 1	139	83	56	.597
2006	40	Iowa	PCL	AAA	CHC	1 of 1	144	76	68	.528
2009	43	Mexicali	MXPW	FgW		1 of 1	68	34	34	.500
2009	43	Iowa	PCL	AAA	CHC	1 of 1	144	72	72	.500
2010	44	Norfolk	IL	AAA	BAL	2 of 2	89	43	46	.483

[weams]

1 hour ago, Frobby said:

Sorry to make a separate thread for this, but I have a specific question.   If we were to choose someone already affiliated with the Orioles to be the new manager, who would you want it to be?     For this purpose, you can include retired players we think of as Orioles so long as they’re not affiliated with another organization now, or any of the O’s current major or minor league coaches?

Tony, if you read this, I’d be particularly interested in your views  as to who your top choice among our minor league coaches would be.    I’d think Ron Johnson and Gary Kendall both deserve some consideration.  

By the way, I by no means intend to imply that I think our search should be confined in this way.   I’m just curious who people would choose if we went that direction.   

I believe Boddy Dickerson will get poached if not offered a promotion. He made Manny. 

[weams]

27 minutes ago, Roy Firestone said:

John Russell needs a personality transplant before he becomes the manager of the Orioles.

Roy, it's only a two year gig. 

[Can_of_corn]

2 minutes ago, Roy Firestone said:

is that how long we will be lousy?

Naw, they will go through a couple sacrificial managers while they are bad.

[Il BuonO]

49 minutes ago, Roy Firestone said:

John Russell needs a personality transplant before he becomes the manager of the Orioles.

Because of all the times you interviewed him and he seemed mundane?

[weams]

35 minutes ago, Roy Firestone said:

is that how long we will be lousy?

It's how long we will be lousy without a change. 

[Luke-OH]

Why not BJ Surhoff?

[wildcard]

45 minutes ago, weams said:

I believe Boddy Dickerson will get poached if not offered a promotion. He made Manny. 

The O's  can offer him a contract before he hits the market.  They could probably do that without  stating what his role will be.

[Frobby]

11 minutes ago, wildcard said:

The O's  can offer him a contract before he hits the market.  They could probably do that without  stating what his role will be.

Managers make a lot more than coaches.   

[Frobby]

1 hour ago, weams said:

I believe Boddy Dickerson will get poached if not offered a promotion. He made Manny. 

Manny made Manny.    God given talent.   Even Dickerson would tell you that (and has).    Which isn’t to say that Dickerson didn’t help refine his natural skills.    

“A lot of guys will come out and absolutely kill themselves trying to figure something out and work all day every day.    Manny is just a super talent.   You give him some information, he applies it immediately.   He sees things pretty quickly on a baseball field, so the transitions have been pretty easy for him.”

http://www.masnsports.com/school-of-roch/2018/07/orioles-move-into-second-half-without-machado.html

[weams]

6 minutes ago, Frobby said:

Manny made Manny.    God given talent.   Even Dickerson would tell you that (and has).    Which isn’t to say that Dickerson didn’t help refine his natural skills.    

“A lot of guys will come out and absolutely kill themselves trying to figure something out and work all day every day.    Manny is just a super talent.   You give him some information, he applies it immediately.   He sees things pretty quickly on a baseball field, so the transitions have been pretty easy for him.”

http://www.masnsports.com/school-of-roch/2018/07/orioles-move-into-second-half-without-machado.html

I think the Platinum glove came as a result of Manny listening to Bobby. And not his agent.  No end to his skills.