Yankees Manager Joe Girardi’s Job May Be in Jeopardy

Is Joe Girardi on the hot seat as manager of the New York Yankees? He should be after overseeing one of the worst Yankees teams in recent memory.

Joe Girardi’s has been manager of the New York Yankees since 2008. He led them to a World Series title in 2009 and has made the playoffs in five out of his nine years at the helm.

However, barring some miraculous turnaround led by Girardi and his scrappy team of misfits, the Bronx Bombers will be sitting at home this October. Yes, you can blame the veterans having disappointing seasons like Alex Rodriguez and Mark Teixeira.

Another possibility is that this Yankees team wasn’t really all that good to begin with and that it is more of general manager Brian Cashman’s fault.

The fact of the matter is that under Girardi the Yankees will have made the playoffs five out of nine years. That is every other year! For some teams that would be considered good enough but not the New York Yankees. Also, if you do not count last year, when the Yankees just squeaked into the second Wild Card spot, that would be four straight years without significant postseason baseball.

Girardi does have a couple of things working for him, however. First, his contract is not up until after the 2017 season. Another thing is the Yankees are in the midst of calling up their top prospects like Gary Sanchez, Aaron Judge, and Tyler Austin. In all likelihood the Yankees don’t want to change the status quo much at this point.

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Also, I do not know if any manager has been able to manage a bullpen for an entire season like Joe Girardi has, where he does not seem to ever overwork his relievers throughout the year.

Lastly, if the Yankees were to fire Girardi, the options to replace him are not any better and/or would be first time managers, like Alex Rodriguez (somewhat joking).

One factor working against Joe Girardi keeping his job is that the 2009 World Series seems like forever ago to most fans. The Yankees simply have not been good these last few years. This is not totally his fault but, as the saying goes in baseball, “You can’t fire the players!”

Also working against Girardi is that it looks like the Yankees players are bored of him and his by the binder shenanigans. Whether or not they actually are I have no idea, but we have seen in recent years with the Twins, Ron Gardenhire, and with the Angels, Mike Scioscia, that even good managers can go stale with their players.

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If this was George Steinbrenner’s team, Girardi probably would of been fired and re-hired about three or four by times now. However, lucky for Joe this is Hal’s team.

Hal Steinbrenner is methodical and slow with his decisions. Change might be in store for the Yankees in the near future, but in all likelihood they will let Girardi play out his contract in 2017 and then decide after that.