Andy Green should be fired by the San Diego Padres

If you're wondering why there was no recap posted on this site after last night's game, the San Diego Padres' sixth consecutive loss was a combination of three things:

1. After spending the first half of the game at Petco Park with my 13 month old daughter, I was exhausted when I got home and I missed some of the last innings because of mini-naps of dad.
2. Six consecutive losses is not an exciting thing to write.
3. I wanted to give myself a night's sleep before writing about Andy Green.

After a night's sleep, I'm still mad at Andy Green.

Do not mistake yourself …

I was not a big fan of Andy Green. I was not a big fan of him when he was hired because of his lack of experience in the dugout. And I was not delighted with his old school approach to creating alignments, pen management and play time for candidates versus veterans.

But I was trying to give Andy the benefit of the doubt this season. It's his fourth season as a Padres manager, and I hoped he'd learned from his mistakes. I also hoped that the replacement of Mark McGwire by Rod Barajas by a new coach on the bench would lead him to evolve.

However, we have to talk about the Ian Kinsler affair, because it shows exactly why he is doing more harm to the team and the franchise than helping them.

The thing Ian Kinsler

Here is how I wrote about what happened in the Friday night game:

At the end of the 10th inning, and with a 1-1 score, Ian Kinsler doubled the gap and placed himself in the goal position. It was his first shot of the game.

Before the end of the next attack, Kinsler (who was already in goal) attempted to steal the third goal and was easily dismissed. Hedges hit the ground ball on the next pitch, and the Padres never really had the opportunity to hit the runner before fooling the goaltender before Kinsler's foul.

It was an incredibly stupid shot for any player, and even less for someone who does not even reach his weight. Kinsler's reaction should have been to apologize to his teammates and coaches and maybe even the fans, and Green's reaction should have been to let Kinsler attend a party so that he knew that the fact of doing stupid things costs the team a part. .

Kinsler, after the match, says it's his way of playing and he'll do it again if he's in the same position.

I want to repeat it for everyone to understand: Ian Kinsler gave his team a chance to win by being stupid and said he would do it again if he was put in the same position.

I was certain that Andy would put him to the bench after that, would probably have a private conversation with him and would publicly announce afterwards that Ian had learned of his mistake and that he would be smarter.

Imagine my surprise when I saw Kinsler in the starting training on Saturday night.

I know Luis Urias does not hit for the moment and once again seemed completely outmoded in his only AB last night, but Kinsler was not much better at the base and his departure for him looks like a reward despite what happened Friday night.

Perception vs reality

I will begin by saying that the following is almost entirely based on speculation and narration. I have not done any work to confirm or refute my suspicions, but I know that I am not the only person to think it openly. ..

Andy Green was not a very talented MLB player. He has played in 140 career games, spanning three seasons, and finished with a .547 OPS. Every appearance of attitude he has had was won thanks to his hard work, his mental toughness and his aggressiveness. Some (including myself) believe that it favors self-remembering players: players who survive unfaithfully, to the detriment of those who have donations given by God on the baseball field.

Perhaps that's why Green continues to reward Kinsler for his debut and AB's for Urias. It is perhaps for this reason that Jose Pirela continues to start for the Padres even though he is neither a good hitter nor a good defensive player since 2017.

It is also possible that a career utility does not understand why moving Wil Myers from RF to 1B, 3B, BF and now to CF would affect his shot, his most valuable feature.

In one way or another …

I am finally ready to take the "Fire Andy Green" train. The manager only affects the performance of a team very little. So I'm not saying they should fire Andy because the team has lost six straight games.

I do not even say that they should dismiss Andy because of the way he handled Kinsler's situation this season, or the way he handled the situation of Anthony Rizzo-Austin Hedges in 2017 or because he continues to find ways to put Jose Pirela on the bill at the expense of his team.

I say that "Andy Green does not provide anything that a team like the Padres wants, or even needs, from his manager. He has demonstrated no ability to lead, no ability to make the right choice in difficult situations and no ability to become a 21st century manager.

If he continues to reward idiocy because he is afraid of losing a match or the fall of the guillotine and the arrival of his pink slip, he already places himself above his team. That's not what I want from a manager.