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Originally Posted by DJ's left nut
No, unless you have a time machine that can take us back to 2014 and we can do what we should've done (and what the Cubs had the stones to do) and fire Matheny to bring on Maddon, there's no way we could've pulled it off.
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The two situations that you're referencing were not the same whatsoever.
Matheny had just finished his third season as manager in which he oversaw the club making the postseason for the third time in three season.
Renteria was a first year manager, who while a very good choice for manager and was probably a good fit for the Cubs at the time, was just that. A first year manager.
Firing a first time manager in his third season after making the POs three seasons in a row in his first three seasons managing a team would have been asinine.
Whether or not hiring Matheny was a good long term move by the Cardinals can be debated, but not firing a guy who just made the POs his first three seasons as manager is not something worth arguing about. The Cubs deserve credit for having the "stones" to fire, by all accounts, a good baseball coach for an even better one after year 1. If the Cardinals had fired Matheny for Maddon, while Maddon is a better manager, would have created an incredibly toxic environment for the club, IMO.
If anything, complain how the front office chose Matheny over Francona.