{"id":32734,"date":"2022-06-01T22:31:12","date_gmt":"2022-06-01T22:31:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/mlb-hot-seat-rankings-five-managers-who-could-soon-be-out-of-a-job-including-phillies-joe-girardi\/"},"modified":"2022-06-01T22:31:12","modified_gmt":"2022-06-01T22:31:12","slug":"mlb-hot-seat-rankings-five-managers-who-could-soon-be-out-of-a-job-including-phillies-joe-girardi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/mlb-hot-seat-rankings-five-managers-who-could-soon-be-out-of-a-job-including-phillies-joe-girardi\/","title":{"rendered":"MLB Hot Seat Rankings: Five managers who could soon be out of a job, including Phillies’ Joe Girardi"},"content":{"rendered":"
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It’s been nearly four years since a Major League Baseball team fired a manager around the midseason mark. The last time it occurred was back in July 2018, when the St. Louis Cardinals dismissed Mike Matheny after 93 games. Mike Shildt would take over on an interim basis before later earning the full-time position; he would remain in that post through the end of last season.<\/p>\n

Teams who have made changes since have waited until either the season’s final weeks or the beginning of the offseason, presumably as a means of minimizing the organizational upheaval and the distraction that comes with firing a manager. Still, unless the practice is completely outlawed – and why would it be? – it seems like only a matter of time before a manager is handed their walking papers before they can flip their office calendar to September.<\/p>\n

While no one wants to see another individual lose their job, the possibility is an unfortunate reality of being a big-league skipper. As such, we’ve highlighted five managers below who we believe could feel their seats grow warmer over the next couple of months – and who just might displace Matheny and become the most recent skipper canned in the summertime. (Do note that the managers are listed in ascending order of perceived safeness.)<\/p>\n

Girardi may not have concerns about his job security, but we do. The Phillies have added too many star-level talents to find themselves on the outside looking in for yet another postseason. Of course it isn’t his fault di lui that he was handed a flawed roster, specifically in regards to the defense and the bullpen; however, it’s seldom a good sign when players are openly discussing their team’s low energy level, nor is it promising for Girardi’s long-term job prospects that the Phillies made multiple changes to his coaching staff at the end of last season. The Phillies have been on a downward trajectory for about a month now; if that doesn’t change soon, then what might change is the identity of the person tasked with crafting lineups.<\/p>\n