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Originally Posted by Kasi
Also he was not that great a manager. You know who that stacked 2015 team has hitting lead off through the postseason? Ben ####ing Revere. People bringing up Gibbons have some nice rose colored glasses of his time here.
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Getting off track about Gibbons here.
My point being about Gibbons is that Anthopoulos made that surprise hire because he knew Gibbons, trusted Gibbons, and knew that he was going to get a straight shooter that Farrell wasn't, and that Gibbons style would be suited to manage the type of roster AA was trying to build as a playoff team. And, that Gibby could better handle and manage the vets that AA hoped he could add to (Price at the deadline in the second year for example) the roster at the deadlines, for the playoff windows that they had open for only another couple years (and AA knew he only had a couple years with Rogers himself left).
Bringing Gibby up only because my idle thoughts being, if Atkins and Shapiro have someone that, for all the work Montoya did in managing and navigating this past few years, they trust like AA did with Gibby, and think that this new manager can take this team further, quicker, than Montoyo, they make the change now rather then wait for Montoyo to slip at all next season.