fatbeard
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Weird time to be firing your manager.
It seems to me that, essentially, Bryan Price got fired for being too good at tanking, and that what ownership really wanted was tanking with a "fig leaf" of respectability.
Which seems really odd to me. Just be up front about it like Ricketts and Epstein were.
Being too good at tanking means he sucks at managing. Part of tanking is also being competitive so that your young players don't learn how to lose, but in losing learn how to keep games close and pull some out.
If you're saying that player development still has to occur in the midst of tanking, then I agree. If Bryan Price's sin was "not enough player development", like Dale Sveum, then fine. But I don't see how the front office could reasonably conclude that there wasn't enough development occurring after only 11% of the season.