Marlins and Jennings are the laughtingstock of MLB

Two weeks ago, fraud Jeffrey Loria decided to fire manager Jim Redmond and to replace him with GM Dan Jennings, even though the latter had no experience as a professional manager and never played a regular season professional game.

Now two weeks further, can we say that this move will backfire on the Marlins? When you look to their record since Jennings took over, I tend to say yes. Since Jennings is at the helm of the team the Marlins went 3-7. Oh yes, they beat the Mets 4-3 last night, but you cannot even lose them all.

According to other MLB managers, Jennings’ lack of experience showed in the moves that he made and didn’t make. Diamondbacks manager Chip Hale criticized the fact that he’s even a manager, and made sure to point out a game-winning pinch-hit came about because Jennings did not have a pitcher warming up. So far, Jennings is the laughing stock of the MLB managers. They do everything to ridicule Jennings and to point out the bad moves he makes. You can only wonder why.

I think that MLB managers react the way they do is because they fear for their own job. What if this experiment succeeds? Then the Marlins have proven that managing a baseball team can be done by everyone with some baseball background. This may put their job into jeopardy.

Of course Jennings could have refused to accept the job. He could have known that he and the Marlins would be the joke of MLB. But is it fair to ridicule Jennings for the moves he makes? I don’t think so. It wasn’t his own choice to step in as a manager. He even preached patience with Jim Redmond, but Loria didn’t want to listen.

It was reported that after the first loss under Jennings helm, the players gazed into the locker room.
How much I want the Marlins to lose, I feel sorry for Jennings and the players. They are the victim of a megalomaniac owner that has no clue how to run a baseball club. An owner who bases his decisions on the issues of the day. A two-faced owner who doesn’t want to spend on big contracts at one time and then all of a sudden pulls his wallet and thinks that his club can contend. Unfortunately it doesn’t work that way. There is more than a handful of good players to land a championship.

I think it says it all that Jennings is the tenth manager (if you count Jack McKeon double: 2003-2005 and 2011) since Jeffrey Loria took over as the Marlins’ owner.