BALTIMORE (AP)—Dave Trembley has been fired as manager of the Baltimore Orioles, who have the worst record in the major leagues. The announcement was made Friday by president of baseball operations Andy MacPhail. Third base coach Juan Samuel was appointed interim manager by MacPhail, who hired Trembley to take over on an interim basis for Sam Perlozzo on June 18, 2007.
The Orioles opened with 16 losses in 18 games, are 15-39 and staggering toward a franchise-record 13th consecutive losing season. Baltimore has lost eight straight and is coming off an 0-6 road trip in which it was outscored 34-8 in Toronto and at Yankee Stadium.
Trembley is the second major league manager to be fired this season. Trey Hillman was dismissed by Kansas City on May 13.
Took long enough, he has one of the best young pitching staffs and is misusing them. They've got a bunch of hitters that are in a similar slump like the Phillies only not quite as bad. They have a set of outfielders like Weaver had back in the '79 and '83 era, more than 3 available for every game.
Catcher Matt Wieters came up last year as a rookie and 10K people came as walk in fans for his first game. Attendance isn't always 10K now per game.
His firing was rumored a few weeks back, I posted the same here, they shouldn't have waited this long.
The only thing worse than changing managers for bad team play is failing to change them when they are the problem. I was at the game in '64 when Gene Mauch started the losing streak that cost the Phillies the largest lead in baseball history and they failed to make the Series. That was against Cincinnati and Frank Robinson.
