Handling players: B+
Handling media: A-
Handling front office: ??
Strategy: C+

I don’t know how much goes on behind the scenes, but some of the pitching decisions lately have left me bewildered, even for Trembley. And OH MY, does he love the hit-and-run, which I detest unless ALL the factors relating to the play—the player on base, the player at the bat, the score of the game, the inning of the game, and the opponent we’re playing—are favorable for it. Diamond Dave seems to be in love with it in all situations. Arggghg.

I suppose I fit into group number two, although I don’t necessarily believe that Dave Trembley will find success as a manager when the pieces come together. He might. I’ve said before that I think Trembley can be an above average manager if he just learns how to stay out of his own way. Like zk said above, he handles the players and the press well, but his strategy is questionable. I don’t know that he’ll ever change that, but I think in the meantime his rapport with the young guys goes well with what the team is doing.

I wouldn’t be opposed to him spending some time with Weaver On Strategy in the offseason, that’s for sure.

The Crow must go. The base coaches clearly need to be replaced. For me, the jury is still out on Trembley, even after all this time. I want to see how he handles a young team when it starts to get good. I like to analogize the 2010 Birds (in a perfect world) to the 2008 Devil Rays in terms of the pieces coming together. So, will DD be Piniella or Maddon to the team when it hits that stage? Let’s allow time to tell, but hopefully MacPhail will have a quick hook if the team is actually a winning roster but DD is short on results.

Since Davey Johnson got fired (resigned?) I think Dave has been the best manager the O’s have had.
 
He’s very expirenced when dealing with young players. You don’t win multiple MILB Manger of the Year honors for nothing. He will be able to do good with with all of the 20-somethings we are calling up.
 

when the team he’s got to work with is awful. i kinda felt that way when they fired hargrove and mazzilli. i know its the manager’s job to get the team fired up, but i’d hate myself too if i was playing behind rich hill and chris ray and friends.

I think Trembley is ok, but when this team is ready to compete they likely need someone more adept at baseball strategy. However, every time someone brings up firing Trembley I’ve asked for suggestions on someone who would be a clear improvement and I can’t recall receiving any. So I’d be fine with replacing him for the right candidate, but at this time I cant get behind firing him just to make a change.

I vote for seeing what happens when he actually has a decent roster to work with. When will that be again??

aimed right at Diamond Dave.

When I remember the Brewers fired Ned Yost, I remember hearing chatter that it was the appropriate move because the team had simply outgrown Yost. Yost was brought in because his reputation for player development which fitted the Brewers perfectly since they were bringing up a host of talented young players like Fielder, Hardy, and Weeks. But now that they were winning, the job description changed and they needed someone else. This is how I feel about Trembley. Bring him back next year. But once we start winning, we’ll need another manager.

what group was that again?

thats all i want

The Orioles progressively gotten worse every season he’s managed them.

His incompetence as a manager is so well-established that he’’s not even worth the amount of consideration presented in the initial post.

Firing him isn’t even something that should be up for debate and I assume Andy McPhail will take care of things shortly after the season ends.

when you look at it one when, but when you step back and think about how often we just get shellacked, use up 6 pitchers and lose by 6 runs, it makes those one-run games even more important. At least I think so.