{"id":25396,"date":"2022-10-07T12:02:57","date_gmt":"2022-10-07T17:02:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=25396"},"modified":"2022-10-07T12:02:57","modified_gmt":"2022-10-07T17:02:57","slug":"firings-watch-58","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=25396","title":{"rendered":"Firings watch."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/AMmfb\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mike Matheny out as general manager of the Kansas City Royals<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Also out: pitching coach Cal Eldred.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/AMmfb\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">While they avoided a 100-loss season, the Royals (65-97) finished in last place in the AL Central and recorded the fifth-worst record of any club in the majors. They went an MLB-worst 26-55 on the road.<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/AMmfb\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Matheny inherited a 103-loss team in 2019. In his first season, the Royals went 26-34 playing a pandemic-shortened 2020 schedule.<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/AMmfb\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Royals went 74-88 last season after adding veteran pitcher Mike Minor, first baseman Carlos Santana and left fielder Andrew Benintendi.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>ESPN:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/story\/_\/id\/34736121\/kansas-city-royals-fire-manager-mike-matheny\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Matheny finished 165-219 during his time with the Royals, though the number that perhaps is more important to the future of the club is 29 &#8212; the number of players who made their major league debut during his tenure.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mike Matheny out as general manager of the Kansas City Royals. Also out: pitching coach Cal Eldred. While they avoided a 100-loss season, the Royals (65-97) finished in last place in the AL Central and recorded the fifth-worst record of any club in the majors. They went an MLB-worst 26-55 on the road. Matheny inherited [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-firings","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25396"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25398,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25396\/revisions\/25398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}