Source: Reds Fire Dusty Baker

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Source: Reds Fire Dusty Baker 

Post#1 » by RealGM Wiretap » Fri Oct 4, 2013 1:22 pm

The Cincinnati Reds have fired Dusty Baker three days after the club lost the National League Wild-Card game to the Pittsburgh Pirates.


According to sources, the Reds will replace Baker. He will be paid for 2014, the final year on his contract.


The source also said it was uncertain whether Baker would resign to save face, but the decision was the team's.

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Re: Source: Reds Fire Dusty Baker 

Post#2 » by Skin Blues » Sat Oct 5, 2013 7:19 am

Maybe if he didn't put his weakest hitters in the #2 spot all season (lowest OBP and OPS of any spot 1-8) they'd have won the division and he'd still have a job. How a guy this terrible at in-game decisions sticks around for so long, I'll never know.

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