Cobb Posted September 30, 2009 Report Share Posted September 30, 2009 Source: Yahoo! Sports CLEVELAND (AP)—Eric Wedge lost his job and kept his uniform. Wedge was fired Wednesday as manager of the Cleveland Indians, who are in the final days of a terrible season that began with enormous expectations. Despite being told he would not be back next season, Wedge will manage the last six games of his seventh year with Cleveland, which entered Wednesday’s doubleheader against the Chicago White Sox one game out of last place in the AL Central. “I still wanted to finish what we started this year,” said Wedge, who led the Indians to one playoff appearance since 2003 and went through two rebuilding projects with the midmarket club. “I felt it was the right thing to do. It’s been a long run here as managers go. It will be a tough day.”Really sucks for him since it's not all entirely his fault. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phightins Posted October 1, 2009 Report Share Posted October 1, 2009 There is too much talent in that organization for them to go from the ALCS in 07 to back to back seasons like they have just had. I like Wedge a lot but it was a move that had to be made. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cleveland's Finest Posted October 1, 2009 Report Share Posted October 1, 2009 It's about damn time. Now that our potential championship team is already done with and we need to rebuild, Wedge was fired about 2 years too late and the Indians have to start from ground up. Also Carl Willis, who's been our pitching coach going back to the 90's, was fired. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kingfish Posted October 1, 2009 Report Share Posted October 1, 2009 GM trying to find a scape goat. You give away Sabathia, Cliff Lee, and VMart, of course you are going to suck. They had the last 2 AL Cy young winners and gave them away. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fish7718 Posted October 1, 2009 Report Share Posted October 1, 2009 GM trying to find a scape goat. You give away Sabathia, Cliff Lee, and VMart, of course you are going to suck. They had the last 2 AL Cy young winners and gave them away.Lol, they gave them all away after they started sucking. Remember those guys all were on the same team that went nowhere. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigdog17k Posted October 1, 2009 Report Share Posted October 1, 2009 Not surprised. GLuck Wedge aka Thomes father. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phightins Posted October 1, 2009 Report Share Posted October 1, 2009 (edited) GM trying to find a scape goat. You give away Sabathia, Cliff Lee, and VMart, of course you are going to suck. They had the last 2 AL Cy young winners and gave them away. Can't blame Shapiro for the fact that they are a middle market team that had absolutely no shot of signing those guys once they hit free agency. He traded them all at exactly the right time. The Sabathia situation was unfortunate, since they were not playing that horribly at the time they traded him, but he was absolutely 100% going to walk in the winter. As for Lee and Martinez, the team was playing horribly even with them. They had a combination of injury problems and guys underachieving. Bottom line is the team flat out underperformed and the manager had to be held accountable. I think Wedge will land on his feet somewhere though. Edited October 1, 2009 by Phightins09 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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