With Dusty Baker officially retired, the Astros are on the hunt for a new manager. Names have already been bandied about in reports including current coaches Joe Espada and Omar Lopez, former Astro cacher Brad Ausmus, former Astro and current Tigers manager A.J. Hinch, and Brewers skipper Craig Counsell. Rather...
Astros owner Jim Crane and new general manager Dana Brown will have their work cut out for them in finding a new manager.With Dusty Baker officially retired, the Astros are on the hunt for a new manager. Names have already been bandied about in reports including current coaches Joe Espada and Omar Lopez, former Astro cacher Brad Ausmus, former Astro and current Tigers manager A.J. Hinch, and Brewers skipper Craig Counsell.
This is still a very good Astros team. Not great, but very good. While they lack a deep farm system, their top tier players in that system appear to be very solid and nearing big club performance in the next couple of seasons. With Alex Bregman, Jose Altuve, Framber Valdez and Hunter Brown all potentially free agents in the next few seasons, this is a team in transition despite still being good enough to compete for another championship.
That status won't just impact the hire, in many ways, it should drive it. Unlike the hiring of Baker, who was meant to shepherd a team mired in scandal to better days , the next head man in the dugout should be a longer term option with visions of what this ballclub will be, not just what it is now. Here are five things we hope owner Jim Crane, GM Dana Brown and special adviser Jeff Bagwell will keep in mind.All sports leagues are led by their players.
But, any progress they have made can be lost if a new manager focuses on a more traditional baseball approach. Brown has embraced the use of analytics, but, unlike Luhnow,, he is not a savant of Sabermetrics or even necessarily a devotee. Any new hire doesn't have to be the second coming of Billy Beane when it comes to numbers, but a willingness to use them to his team's advantage and perhaps even a more advanced understanding of them going in should be an absolute must.
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