Mariners' Manager Scott Servais Fired After Recent Slump

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00:00Because of the seattle slide and slump scott service the manager in the pacific northwest

00:05Who had been the mayor manager of the mariners for the last nine years this his ninth season at the helm

00:12Was let go yesterday

00:14by seattle donny on june 18th

00:17Seattle was 44 and 31

00:20houston was 33

00:22and

00:2240 there was a 10

00:25Game lead for seattle atop the american league west the m's are now back by five and a half games

00:31You you see the stats for seattle since the all-star break 12 and 18 a negative run differential and now 7 to 1 plus

00:40700 to win the american league west even at the break

00:43They were up only by a game over houston, but still were the minus money favorite to win the divisional crown

00:50I'll say this the manager had to go because changes have to be made

00:53You're too late in the season the players can't go and it's much harder to recreate your roster through waivers

00:58Than it is just to remove your manager to try to get a new, you know voice in the room per se

01:02But let's understand this one thing about baseball

01:04It's an individualistic sport and that means you're telling me that the players aren't hitting because they don't like their manager nonsense

01:11If you hate your manager, you want to hit 400 if you love your manager, you want to hit 400 here

01:16But I understand the sediment things are going so poorly here

01:19We just have to make a change for the sake of making a change and I do support that

01:22But if we're looking at saying like well scott service was the real issue with the mariners

01:26No, he's not. He doesn't make you pitch bad used to be like the manager

01:28Like hey

01:29you're just not putting the best lineup out there on a day-to-day basis or

01:31Every time you have a gut feel in the seventh inning with a bullpen guy

01:34You're putting the wrong guy and we got to make a move those guys couldn't hit all year long

01:38Those guys couldn't hit last year quite frankly feels like they couldn't hit for five years in seattle

01:42That's not the manager's fault, but he had to go something has to change

01:45It's just the manager is easier to change than the players at this point, ben