Unbelievable: Misunderstanding has resulted in the suspension of San Francisco Giants head coach
Earlier this month, while the San Francisco Giants were still in the running for the playoffs, they lost games and important opportunities, leading president of baseball operations Farhan Zaidi to decide it was time to fire manager Gabe Kapler.
Helmet given to a young Phillies fan by an irate Bryce Harper yells at the referee
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With three games remaining in the season and the team out of the playoffs for the second consecutive year, the Giants fired Kapler on Friday.
“When it counted most, we as a team and as a group played our worst baseball,” Zaidi remarked.
Zaidi accepted his fair share of the blame for the team’s failures while urging ownership. With only one year left on his contract, his own future is uncertain.
It is difficult for everyone to watch Zaidi say, “to go out on that last road trip still in the wildcard, still controlling our own destiny, and then playing the way we did when we controlled our own destiny.” It was difficult for the players to go through, difficult for the fans to witness, and difficult for us as a team to observe. That somewhat hastened our realization that we must make tough choices and adopt new perspectives.
Friday afternoon, Kapler departed Oracle Park at midday. Text messaged, he declined to discuss his time with the Giants.
2023 saw its first managerial change with Kapler’s dismissal. Kai Correa, the bench coach, was supposed to lead the Giants in the interim.
Entering a series against the Los Angeles Dodgers, the NL West champion, the Giants were 78-81.
Outfielder Austin Slater said, “This is just what happens when you lose baseball games.” “We haven’t played well for the past two months, or even since the All-Star break, to be honest. It’s a mix of bad pitching that we rode for the majority of the season, careless play on the field, and weak offense. Thus, no individual, group, or point on the team is at fault in this situation. Overall, the baseball was just awful.
Over his four seasons as the Giants’ manager, the 48-year-old Kapler had a 295-248 record; however, 2021 was the only year he had a winning record, as San Francisco
