blogs.chron.com - 10/26/2009
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Sounds like Drayton just wants a manager for transitional purposes til the team is ready to compete. This team will not be competitive for another 2-3 yrs minimum. By that time the manager Drayton is wanting to hire now will be a manager without a contract then. It would give Drayton another ...
bizofbaseball.com - 10/27/2009
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bizofbaseball.com —
Yesterday, it was Jed Moyer, and today the
picking apart of the Red Sox front office continues....
The Houston Astros have selected Brad Mills as their new manager. The Astros have called a 3p.m. press conference with General Manager Ed Wade, Tal Smith, President, Baseball Operations and Tal ...
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Brad Mills Selected as New Manager of Astros
brianmctaggart.mlblogs.com - 10/27/2009
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brianmctaggart.mlblogs.com —
Brad Mills, who spent the last six years
working under former college roommate and teammate Terry Francona...
as the bench coach for the Boston Red Sox, will be named Tuesday to be named as the new manager of the Astros....
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Astros hire Mills
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Odds & Ends: Astros, Acta, Soria
MLB Rumors - MLBTradeRumors.com —
... battle in the Bronx:
Astros General Manager Ed Wade confirmed to MLB.com's Brian McTaggart that the club made an offer to Manny Acta to become their next skipper before he took the same position with the Indians. Sources tell McTaggart that Houston offered two years plus a one-year option whereas Cleveland was willing to give Acta three years in addition to a one-year option.
Striking out on Acta makes this a very bad day for the Astros according to Richard Justice of the Houston Chronicle.
Terry Pluto of the Cleveland Plain Dealer ...
Too Manny Chiefs, Not Enough Indians
The Nationals Enquirer —
... But what's perhaps most surprising is that he would've been Astros manager if Drayton McLane would've given him 3 years. Drayton wouldn't. Cleveland did. End of story. How bad did the Astros want him? ...
The Roundup: Manny Acta to Cleveland, Mark McGwire to St. Louis, Larry Johnson Slams Todd Haley
The Big Lead —
... The Houston Astros wanted Manny Acta. Badly. Owner Drayton McLane botched it … Acta is the new manager of the Indians. (Chronicle) ...
Justice: Astros have a very bad day, and that’s being kind
BBTF's Baseball Primer Newsblog —
Justice: Astros have a very bad day, and that’s being kind It’s not Rainbow Guts throwupback uni-day already...is it? Manny Acta was the guy they wanted. The Astros liked everything about him. His presence and personality. How he forged relationships with players. His ability to run a game. I said from the beginning that there was no right answer in this search for a new manager. Manny Acta would have been terrific, but then so would Phil Garner, Bob Melvin, Tim Bogar, Jim Fregosi and a dozen or so others. But the Astros settled on Manny Acta. Ed Wade and Tal Smith went ...
The Tribe Makes Their Move: Its Acta
WaitingForNextYear —
... So if they let him walk and Valentine wasn’t interested in the job the way the Indians brass wanted him to be, you were looking at the yet to be interviewed Don Mattingly and Ron Roenicke (two guys with no managerial experience) or AAA manager Torey Lovullo. With that said, I’d say the Indians made the correct decision. Acta truly wants to be here. Don’t believe me? He chose the Indians over Houston. Houston Chronicle’s baseball expert Richard Justice said this morning that yesterday was a bad, bad day for the Astros , allowing the Indians to steal Acta from them. In a ...
The Astros' offseason gets off to a pathetic start
Circling The Bases —
... Cleveland was offering? The only possible explanation that doesn't make the Astros look bad here is that Acta didn't give Houston a chance to match the Indians' offer. But that flies in the face of Acta's previous comments regarding his desire for the Astros' job and his reputation as a standup guy. It's also worth noting that, at present, no one has said that Acta didn't give them a chance, and under these circumstances, someone probably would have said so by now if it was true. As Richard Justice of the Houston Chronicle notes , why now, after giving all kinds of money ...
Following Acta... Isn't that a clever pun
The Tribe Daily —
... Houston had come to the conclusion that Manny Acta was their guy. They offered him a two year deal. Acta wanted a three year deal. Probably hearing that Acta was being offered the job from Houston, Mark Shapiro and Cleveland decided that Acta was too good to let slip away, so they offered him a three year deal. ...
Indians get their man, Astros don't
ESPN Feed: neyer rob —
... , but in Houston the story is that the Astros didn't get theirs . Richard Justice: If you don't trust your baseball people to choose your manager, you should get new baseball people. If you think it's silly to give a manager a three-year contract but don't mind throwing $100 million of your ill-gotten gains at ...
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houston.astros.mlb.com 10/27/2009 — By Brian McTaggart / MLB.com 10/27/09 7:13 PM ET HOUSTON -- Astros general manager Ed Wade's respect for Boston Red Sox manager Terry Francona runs deep, so it wasn't surprising that the club leaned on Francona heavily for advice and wound up tabbing ...
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mlb.mlb.com 10/18/2009 — By Brian McTaggart / MLB.com 10/16/09 9:02 PM ET HOUSTON -- Bob Melvin and Manny Acta, two men who were fired as managers in the first half of last season, interviewed with the Astros on Friday for their full-time managerial position with hopes of ...
Indians get their man, Astros don't
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Justice: Astros take step in right direction with Mills
chron.com 10/28/2009 — His hiring doesn't fix the pitching, improve the defense or guarantee more home runs. If only it were that easy. The Astros have so many things wrong with them that the hiring of Brad Mills as manager can't come close to making them all right. That ...
Garner interviews for Astros Job
digitalsportsdaily.com 10/17/2009 — By Travis Duncan
Former Houston Astros manager Phil Garner has interviewed for the Houston Astros managerial job according to the Associated Press . Garner made a phone call to Astros team president recommending Bob Melvin for the position and Smith asked Garner if he was interested. Garner ...
Astros hire Red Sox bench coach Brad Mills as new manager
bases.nbcsports.com 10/30/2009 — Manny Acta chose Cleveland over Houston when offered both manager jobs, but the Astros announced this afternoon that they've found a new skipper in Red Sox bench coach Brad Mills. Mills and Terry Francona are longtime friends, playing together first...
Astros fire Cooper as losing streak continues
mlbcenter.com 9/22/2009 — With only 13 games remaining in the season and the Astros mired in one of the longest slumps of the season, the Astros have released their manager, Cecil Cooper.
Cruz given new role with Astros —
Major League Baseball News 10/26/2009
Jose Cruz, the Astros' long-time left fielder and former first-base coach, has been named as a special assistant to the general manager/community outreach executive, Houston general manager Ed Wade announced on Monday.
