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FORGOTTEN HISTORY: 2 - Caught on Camera

Talking stats and balls with Joe Maddon

Former Cubs skipper fears that overreliance on analytics is watering down a manager’s influence

Chicago Sun-Times

Eight Thoughts Heading Into the First Day of the Playoffs

For us baseball fans, few days are better than the one we have today. Four postseason games, back-to-back-to-back-to-back. Well, technically, there is some overlap, but that’s even better! More games means flipping channels, which means less of a chance we’ll have to sit through commercials for ...

Sports Illustrated

Helene Elliott: Perry Minasian has work to do to make Angels postseason bound next season

ANAHEIM, Calif. — Perry Minasian didn’t have to delve into analytics to explain the Angels’ failures this season and answer the question that perennially hangs over them:

Los Angeles Times

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Joe Maddon Says Angels GM Told Him to Pull Trout Mid-Game

Maddon: ““Don’t you ever f------ call down to the dugout again!”

Sports Illustrated

SI:AM | The Top 10 Players in the NBA

The final installment of our NBA Top 100 list is here.

Sports Illustrated

Inside the MLB Culture Wars That Led to Joe Maddon’s Firing

How could a World Series-winning manager with 19 years of experience lose his job over a 12-game sample?

Sports Illustrated

Angels give Phil Nevin one-year contract to return as manager

OAKLAND, Calif. — Phil Nevin will return for the 2023 season as Angels manager, the team announced Wednesday before their final game of the season.

Los Angeles Times

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Just do it, White Sox: Hire Joe Maddon

Maddon, 68 — oh, stop, that isn’t old — is ready to manage again.

Chicago Sun-Times

Who will be the next Chicago White Sox manager? Here are 12 potential candidates.

The Tony La Russa 2.0 era is ending. So who will be the next Chicago White Sox manager?

Chicago Tribune

Many possibilities to consider if manager Tony La Russa doesn’t return to White Sox

A look at multiple candidates from inside and outside the organization.

Chicago Sun-Times

Larry Stone: Why Mariners' Scott Servais should win AL manager of year

On June 19 you could have gotten much better odds that Scott Servais would be the third manager fired in 2022 (after the Phillies' Joe Girardi and Angels' Joe Maddon) than him winning American League Manager of the Year.

Tribune News Service

Paul Sullivan: 8 random thoughts on the Chicago Cubs after a 4-3 loss on a lazy afternoon at Wrigley Field

The Chicago Cubs have nothing to prove in the remaining 25 games of the 2022 season, but they plan on playing out the schedule anyway.

Chicago Tribune

Former manager Joe Maddon repeats frustration in how Angels’ front office handled analytics

Former Angels manager Joe Maddon continued on his crusade against the way analytics have flooded the game of baseball, including expressing frustration in the way he and the Angels front office worked together before he was fired in June.

The Orange County Register

Good Riddance, Arte Moreno. Thanks for Wasting Trout and Ohtani

His ownership is defined by mismanagement and utter disappointment. His exit can’t come soon enough.

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Angels owner Arte Moreno has started exploring option of selling the team

LOS ANGELES — Arte Moreno has started exploring the option of selling the Angels and has taken on Galatioto Sports Partners as financial advisors, the team announced Tuesday morning.

Tribune News Service

Fired Angels manager Joe Maddon having a blast, and blasting how some teams are run

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Joe Maddon is managing just fine in his first summer without pro baseball in 47 years.

Chicago Tribune

Paul Sullivan: Willson Contreras gets last look at Cubs fans on emotional day: ‘I’m always going to keep them in my heart’

CHICAGO — Players come and go at Wrigley Field, and some of the lucky ones get the send-off they deserve.

Los Angeles Times

Angels determined to revive their season after 'really bizarre' first-half crash

LOS ANGELES — The Angels couldn't have scripted a better opening act to this season, going 27-17 and sitting one game behind the American League West-leading Houston Astros on May 24.

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Bill Shaikin: If the Angels hire a new manager, here's their guy

LOS ANGELES — Even with the almost supernatural intervention of Shohei Ohtani, the Angels were very nearly swept this week by the Kansas City Royals. The Royals are not a good team. The Angels might not be, either. As of Thursday, Baseball Prospectus projects them with a one in 10…

Chicago Tribune

Paul Sullivan: Cubs are once again fair game for late-night talk show jokes — just like the 1990s

CHICAGO — When Stephen Colbert watched Chicago Cubs first baseman Frank Schwindel pitch in relief during an 18-4 loss to the New York Yankees a few weeks ago, the late-night talk show host was amused by his eephus pitch.

USA Today Sports Media Group

The PGA Tour should just gleefully wave goodbye to the soulless players who leave for LIV Golf

Don't let the door hit ya on the way out, fellas!

Chicago Tribune

Paul Sullivan: Tony La Russa isn’t worried about White Sox fan discontent — he’ll ignore it like he did in his 1st South Side stint

CHICAGO — You’ve got to have thick skin to be a major-league manager, and no one alive has managed more major-league games than Tony La Russa.

Tribune News Service

Bill Madden: Tony La Russa next up on the hot seat after Joe Maddon fired by Angels

NEW YORK — Tough times last week for two of baseball’s most enduring managers. At 68 years old and 56 games into the final year on his contract, Joe Maddon was fired as manager of the Angels in the midst of a 12-game losing streak. A couple of days later…

Los Angeles Times

How fiery Phil Nevin won over the Angels: 'The energy he brings is contagious'

ANAHEIM, Calif. — Phil Nevin was in the visiting clubhouse in Kansas City, Mo., having been ejected from a June 2, 1998, game for charging the mound and inciting a seventh-inning brawl, when another fight broke out between the Angels and Royals in the ninth.

Sports Illustrated

Breaking Down Tony La Russa’s Latest Illogical Decision

Yesterday, in the Dodgers’ 11–9 win over the White Sox, Chicago manager Tony La Russa made the puzzling decision to intentionally walk Trea Turner on a 1–2 count to face Max Muncy. Many of you probably know what happened, but let’s briefly run through the situation just in case before…

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