October 14, 2008
Bobby Booted
The Yankees fired third base coach Bobby Meacham today.
The other interesting aspect to this move is that Meacham was one of the two choices Joe Girardi made for his staff, the other being bullpen coach Mike Harkey. Firing Meacham takes away an ally of the manager. Girardi, you may recall, was stunned at questions about whether his staff would he changed, saying he saw no reason. Obviously Brian Cashman felt differently.
Rich Monteleone was also fired. I don't think it's a good sign for the manager when his coaches get replaced. That said, was there anything wrong with Meacham's performance at third base? I don't remember many criticisms of his sending or holding runners during the regular season.
Update: River Ave. Blues thought Meacham did blow obvious calls.
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This was a big complaint all season. In the beginning of the season Meachem sent a good number of runners home or to third only to get them thrown out by a long shot. Later in the season he stopped sending runners in nearly all situations even if they would have likely been safe by a long shot.
Yeah, that's exactly right. He got about 10 guys thrown out at home in July - not exaggerating - and then stopped sending *anybody*. It's not something that Bobby Meacham is good at.
Okay, maybe exaggerating just a little.
Meachem was bad, better he got better results than the stooge Omar foisted upon Willie/Jerry.
This is a wakecall to Joe G, Cash wants changes.