With Piniella Out, Is Sandberg Next

Maybe I’m biased, after spending two days around Ryne Sandberg in Des Moines earlier this month. But with Lou Piniella retiring Sunday – effective immediately – as the Chicago Cubs manager, I think Sandberg has to get that job. Don’t you?
For now, it makes sense to name Mike Quade, a likeable guy and a baseball lifer,Cheap More Brand Hats, as the interim manager. The Cubs’ third-base coach for the last four years, Quade (pronounced KWAH-dee) has 17 years of experience as a minor league manager, including four with Class AAA Iowa, where Sandberg manages now. Sandberg’s Iowa Cubs are headed for the playoffs, and he is finishing the season there.
Asked in Chicago on Sunday about the full-time position for 2011 and beyond, Jim Hendry, the Cubs’ general manager, told reporters, “To label anyone as the favorite right now would be absolutely foolish.”
O.K.,cheap San Diego Padres Hats, so there’s no favorite,San Francisco Giants Hats sale, and Hendry pretty much has to say that,cheap Chicago Cubs Hats, anyway. But why would Sandberg NOT be the favorite, deep down? He has managed four years in the minors for the Cubs, generally with success. He is universally respected for his work ethic and baseball knowledge. As a player, he was a Hall of Famer and Cubs legend. He seems to interact well with players and has learned to gracefully handle the news media.
Teams typically hire a different kind of manager than the one who held the job before,Fox Racing Hats, and Sandberg, with zero games as a major league manager,cheap Montreal Expos Hats, would be an obvious change from Piniella, who managed more than 3,500, and Piniella’s predecessor, Dusty Baker. Piniella and Baker were both veteran managers who had succeeded elsewhere but – like so many before them — could not lift the Cubs to the World Series. So why not give Sandberg his chance?
If Hendry hires someone else, he would face tough questions about why he rejected Sandberg. And the Cubs would also face the potential embarrassment that the Los Angeles Dodgers incurred after the 1999 season, when they stuck with the veteran manager Davey Johnson and ignored their own franchise stalwart managing at Class AAA – Mike Scioscia. Scioscia joined the Angels in 2000 and has become a World Series champion and a virtual institution. Johnson never managed in the majors past 2000.
The wild card in all this is Yankees Manager Joe Girardi, who grew up in Illinois, attended Northwestern and played for the Cubs. Girardi is unsigned past this season, but the Yankees have every intention of bringing him back,cheap Pittsburgh Pirates Hats, and for all his Chicago roots, Girardi seems very comfortable in New York. With no obvious fallback option for manager, the Yankees would seem highly motivated to do whatever it takes to keep Girardi.
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