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The powerful triumvirate came into the season with massive expectations and record-setting payrolls, but a hefty price will soon be paid for the organizations’ failures.
The Miami Marlins, Los Angeles Angels and Detroit Tigers spent $735 million in free agent acquisitions last winter in hopes of securing postseason berths, but unless the Angels and Tigers pull off comebacks these final two weeks, all three teams will be sitting home for the winter, prompting dismissals.
The Marlins, according to two high-ranking executives but not permitted to speak publicly because the final decision will be made by owner Jeffrey Loria, are planning to fire Larry Beinfest, vice president/baseball operations, perhaps as early as next week. He is expected to be replaced by Dan Jennings, the Marlins’ assistant general manager and vice president of player personnel.
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“When you sign up for this job and you don’t win,” Beinfest told Miami radio station 790 last week, “you know you can be in the cross hairs and lose your job. That’s just the way it is.”
Loria won’t publicly address Beinfest’s future, or other high-ranking front-office personnel, but the two high-ranking Marlins’ executives say that they would be stunned if Beinfest is the only change.
“At this moment,” Marlins manager Ozzie Guillen said Tuesday, “everybody in the organization ought to be up in the air.”
While Guillen, in the first year of a four-year, $10 million deal, is expected to keep his job, other managers expected to be fired are Bobby Valentine of the Boston Red Sox and Manny Acta of the Cleveland Indians. Toronto Blue Jays manager John Farrell is the favorite to replace Valentine, if he’s let out of his contract, and Cleveland bench coach Sandy Alomar Jr. will be given strong consideration to supplant Acta.
The Miami Marlins, Los Angeles Angels and Detroit Tigers spent $735 million in free agent acquisitions last winter in hopes of securing postseason berths, but unless the Angels and Tigers pull off comebacks these final two weeks, all three teams will be sitting home for the winter, prompting dismissals.
The Marlins, according to two high-ranking executives but not permitted to speak publicly because the final decision will be made by owner Jeffrey Loria, are planning to fire Larry Beinfest, vice president/baseball operations, perhaps as early as next week. He is expected to be replaced by Dan Jennings, the Marlins’ assistant general manager and vice president of player personnel.
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“When you sign up for this job and you don’t win,” Beinfest told Miami radio station 790 last week, “you know you can be in the cross hairs and lose your job. That’s just the way it is.”
Loria won’t publicly address Beinfest’s future, or other high-ranking front-office personnel, but the two high-ranking Marlins’ executives say that they would be stunned if Beinfest is the only change.
“At this moment,” Marlins manager Ozzie Guillen said Tuesday, “everybody in the organization ought to be up in the air.”
While Guillen, in the first year of a four-year, $10 million deal, is expected to keep his job, other managers expected to be fired are Bobby Valentine of the Boston Red Sox and Manny Acta of the Cleveland Indians. Toronto Blue Jays manager John Farrell is the favorite to replace Valentine, if he’s let out of his contract, and Cleveland bench coach Sandy Alomar Jr. will be given strong consideration to supplant Acta.
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