Time for a change?

Time to fire Melvin?

  • Nope, just a June swoon

    Votes: 9 60.0%
  • Yup, give Gibson a chance

    Votes: 2 13.3%
  • Yup, bring someone from outside the team

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Get back to me after the Allstar break

    Votes: 4 26.7%

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PDXChris

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What do you think? I think this team needs a motivator for this young team.
 

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What do you think? I think this team needs a motivator for this young team.
You left out the option that I support. Promote the man waving runners around 3B -- the man who brought a Championship to the D'backs organization in Tucson -- Chip Hale.

And that was the season that many of his BabyBacks were taken and promoted to the D'backs. He still won it all.

Reassign "The Mad Scientist", as Daron Sutton calls him.

Kirk Gibson has no managerial experience. Go with a candidate who has shown us, and himself, what he can do.
 

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I would love to see Chip Hale get a shot at managing this team. However, the Front Office is too committed now to Melvin and he will do just well enough to keep his job.
 
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You left out the option that I support. Promote the man waving runners around 3B -- the man who brought a Championship to the D'backs organization in Tucson -- Chip Hale.

And that was the season that many of his BabyBacks were taken and promoted to the D'backs. He still won it all.

Reassign "The Mad Scientist", as Daron Sutton calls him.

Kirk Gibson has no managerial experience. Go with a candidate who has shown us, and himself, what he can do.

You are right, Hale would make a great choice.
 

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I picked Gibson but if Hale had been an option, would have picked him. All I can say is, why wait? It's already a year late.
 

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he needs to do what he did last year. shuffle the lineup. send the runners. this team looked great running the bases early this year. that was supposed to be our strongpoint. not sitting on our hands waiting for homers.
 

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... not sitting on our hands waiting for homers.
Great point. Teams that depend on homeruns in the National League will win probably one-third of their games.

The worst part is how it's ruining the careers of Justin Upton, Chris Young and Mark Reynolds. All in the worst five in the league in strikeouts. Opposing pitching coaches and pitchers make them (and Melvin) look foolish.

Then there's the goofy one-handed uppercut swings of Eric Byrnes.
 

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Interesting - in first place 60 games in, but fans calling for his head...


CRAZY
 

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Did you all forget that our season was over about five times last year and we ended up in the NLCS with a less talented team?

Way too early.
 

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Can I vote twice?

Conor, you're the first baseman this year. No more having to look over your shoulder, no more wondering -- you're our guy. Except when we want you to run that slightly gimpy quadriceps out in Left Field, where we stuck you in the minors and decided you didn't have the speed or the arm, so we made you learn First Base on the job, which you are FINALLY starting to get comfortable with. OK, so I lied. I'm the Manager, sue me.
 

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I think firing BoMel would be counterintuitive at this point in time. I would start with a personnel change to inject come life into the lineup. There is a major flaw in this lineup and it's not Melvin's fault.

There are 3 Diamondbacks in the top 10 in strikeouts in the MAJORS. This just cannot happen.

These three are:

Reynolds
Upton
Young

I don't need to tell you who the odd man out is in this equation. There are not enough dynamic hitters on this team, the majority of the lineup has the same weaknesses and strikeouts is one of the biggest reasons we bust out with RISP.

This isn't going to be a popular opinion, but I say you trade Reynolds and give Chad Tracy his shot again. He doesn't strikeout nearly as much and Reynolds could probably return some decent value.
 

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I think firing BoMel would be counterintuitive at this point in time. I would start with a personnel change to inject come life into the lineup. There is a major flaw in this lineup and it's not Melvin's fault.

There are 3 Diamondbacks in the top 10 in strikeouts in the MAJORS. This just cannot happen.

These three are:

Reynolds
Upton
Young

I don't need to tell you who the odd man out is in this equation. There are not enough dynamic hitters on this team, the majority of the lineup has the same weaknesses and strikeouts is one of the biggest reasons we bust out with RISP.

This isn't going to be a popular opinion, but I say you trade Reynolds and give Chad Tracy his shot again. He doesn't strikeout nearly as much and Reynolds could probably return some decent value.


Good timing on your post. Reynolds just hit a 3-run homer out of Shea off Wagner in the top of the ninth to tie the game.

:thumbup:
 

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Good timing on your post. Reynolds just hit a 3-run homer out of Shea off Wagner in the top of the ninth to tie the game.

:thumbup:

In that case... I hope I NEVER win the lottery

:D
 

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Good timing on your post. Reynolds just hit a 3-run homer out of Shea off Wagner in the top of the ninth to tie the game.
:thumbup:
And we still lost the game. Mark Reynolds is the only D'back who should be swinging for the seats. Then, with him batting 6th or 7th, and with what's become his hot streaks and cold streaks (remember Steve Finley?), he'd be a contributing part of the team.

Not just one of the young strikeout artists, who will eventually be traded and blossom when guided by a thinking Manager, rather than "The Mad Scientist" (thank you, Daron Sutton).

It's ironic that Mark Reynolds' one swing of the bat with two outs and two strikes in the 9th produced our only runs of the extra-extra inning game.

If the home plate umpire had not blown the call on the previous pitch, when Mark was hit by the pitch, even that one swing would not have happened, and we would have been shut out.
 

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