although i like walbeck.

Perry Hill is a personal friend of Nolan’s? Am I thinking of some other old Rangers connection who he was good friends with?

If we hear that some guy that was brought in was a “JD guy” or a “Nolan guy” then shame on them and regardless of the outcome next season, Wash should get a two-year extension because it’s not really his fault, it’s the staff’s fault.

If you feel like that the manager is good enough to bring back for a third year, then he must be good enough to pick his own staff. If he picks his own guys, then he no longer has a scapegoat and if things don’t go well then you know who to blame.

but experience hasn’t exactly equalled success when it’s come to Rangers pitching coaches lately.

Goes from minor league manager of the year, to MLB 3B coach, to what ? I had thought he was a decent managerial candidate (maybe still is).

I wouldn’t mind seeing someone come in who isn’t a “nice guy”. Seems like Wash could use a bad cop to balance his good cop approach.

Joe Maddon.

im going to hate seeing him leave, i thought for sure he’d be ron’s replacement

Will Carroll had a really, really poor opinion of that guy, and that’s good enough for me.

Let him go back to something completely unimportant, like scouting the Far East.

i don’t see why walbeck goes (b/c of wash) when howe goes (despite wash).

anyway, i want to see washington gone and a new manager with his staff (or the new manager, jd and nolan all working together to get a staff assembled).

there were WAY to may errors, and i thought one of the keys to washington was his ability to get the most defense out of the players.

if defense is one of his high points, abysmal defense tells me he’s not really good enough to be a manager.

he was handicapped by an atrocious pitching staff, but there weren’t a lot (any) “i think this guy is a great manager” moments.

the 7-16 start should have been his demise, and rallying the team past seattle and oakland didn’t seem like much of an accomplishment.

he stays b/c his team (beyond just the pitching staff) was injured? that seems like delaying the inevitable.

the team played well (at times) despite washington not because of him…

Where’s Brad Arnsberg lately? I thought he had done a decent enough job in Montreal and Florida with young pitchers which would qualify in my book as experienced, especially the type of experience that will be needed in the not-to-distant future.

As far as thid base coach and catching coach, what about Mike Stanley? He seemed to make a nice enough career out of the not so present superstar skills. Wasn’t Bill Hasselman supposed to be a young up and coming coach not too long ago?

Fun little Rangers timewaste here.