Arizona fires manager Hinch, GM Byrnes (AP)

[ASFN Admin]

The one-time rising young genius of baseball and his youthful hand-picked manager got the boot in Arizona. General manager Josh Byrnes, so coveted three years ago that the Diamondbacks gave him a whopping eight-year contract extension, was fired Thursday night along with manager A.J. Hinch, whose team was 34 games under .500 in his less than one full season on the job.

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