The ‘Yost leaving his post’ post
March 28, 2008Vegas Watch tonight posted the odds of MLB managers leaving their posts this season. It’s more fun to think of it as most likely to get fired, but I suppose they can’t have any gray area when Ozzie Guillen announces he’s “stepping down to spend more time with his family.”
So yeah, Guillen is No. 1. No surprise.
Ned Yost is No. 3 at 8-to-1. No surprise there, either. He has a team for which great expectations have been set. He has an owner constantly congratulating himself for spending money. He has several Web sites dedicated to his firing. He’s a pretty good candidate.
Here’s a surprise: Jim Leyland is tied for least likely to leave his post. He and Joe Torre are both 50-to-1. Torre I get, but … Leyland is 63 years old, looks like he’s 81 and smokes a pack and a half of cigarettes before the top of the third inning. No one would be surprised if he leaves his post for the afterlife sometime in late April.
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