Red Sox fire Grady Little

[tmfranlk]

Just saw this article a little bit ago. I guess we knew that it was coming.

http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=1647772&partnersite=espn

 

[dianeschlicht]

THis really makes me feel bad. I think he had a GREAT season and made a good run at it. There is NO WAY the Twins would be firing Ron Gardnhire, and his team didn't go as far as Grady Little's did!

 

[JDH]

he did have an opportunity to prevent this from happening by not abdicating his managerial responsibility. He should have pulled Pedro Martinez. To me this was a game situation that was well within his ability to control and he dropped the ball. Sad but even at his age lessons still need to be learned and sometimes the hard way. I think he knew he was out based on some of his comments after the series.

He's already in consideration for the Baltimore job as is Lee Mazzeli of the Yankees.

 

[debster812]

I know it is just a matter of semantics, but 'technically' Grady Little was not fired. His contract expired on Friday, and the Red Sox management chose not to renew it.

The buzz around town is that now management can bring in their 'own' guy, as Grady was hired as an interim manager. I do feel badly, because I think he did as good a job as anyone could have, and they did have a great year.

 

[tmfranlk]

I thought that was probably the situation, Deb. We were still in Boston when he came in and I remember thinking that he probably wouldn't last too long. I thought the line in the article about not being so-and-so's "guy" was probably quite accurate.

 

[jjskribs]

The decision to fire Grady Little was not just based on his decision to leave Pedro in the game. Throughout the season he made many questionable decisions. The Red Sox could have picked up the option on his contract at any point during the season but chose not to. The Sox did have a great season but many people feel that they lost many games because of poor decisions by Grady Little. He tends to manage by "hunches" rather than percentages. John Henry(one of the owners) is a percentage kind of guy. Grady is obviously a very nice guy but I never felt that he was cut out to be a major league manager.

 

[CBRorBust]

I don't think it was completely about his decision to leave Pedro in the game....BUT

It sure didn't help that he went out to the mound 2 times before pulling Pedro out the third time.

 

[Big Dude]

Since it looks as if ZIMMER will not be around next year, the YANKEES will pick up Grady just to defense PEDRO in one of his tantrums!!! It's a lock!!!

Adam, aka Big Dude