{"id":79360,"date":"2020-10-01T10:57:07","date_gmt":"2020-10-01T07:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/no-more-token-interviews-in-future\/"},"modified":"2020-10-01T10:57:07","modified_gmt":"2020-10-01T07:57:07","slug":"no-more-token-interviews-in-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/no-more-token-interviews-in-future\/","title":{"rendered":"#No more ‘token interviews’ in future"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#No more ‘token interviews’ in future<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

\n Sandy Alomar guided the Indians to a 28-18 record and a playoff berth as acting manager this season, but it\u2019s unclear if the 54-year-old will ever get a chance to be hired to manage a team on a full-time basis.<\/p>\n

Either way, Alomar made it clear he has no interest in being interviewed just so a team can check a box, something he feels has happ<\/a>ened to him previously.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve had interviews in the past, three or four, and some of them were last-minute interviews when I didn\u2019t feel like I was ever given a chance to go to a second interview,\u2019\u2019 Alomar said before the Indians\u2019 season-ending 10-9 loss to the Yankees.<\/p>\n

\u201cSome interviews, to me, were token interviews,\u2019\u2019 said Alomar, who is filling in for Terry Francona, who missed much of the abbreviated regular season with health issues.<\/p>\n

He didn\u2019t specify which jobs those were for, but Alomar interviewed for managerial openings with the Cubs, Blue Jays and Red Sox nearly a decade ago before taking over for Manny Acta as interim manager in Cleveland to finish the 2012 season before Francona was hired and Alomar returned as bench coach.<\/p>\n

Alomar, who played and coached for the Mets, was also in the mix for their managerial job in 2017, but the job went to Mickey Callaway.<\/p>\n

\u201cI feel like I\u2019m ready enough to manage,\u201d Alomar said. \u201cI\u2019ve never agreed with the interview process. [Being called] at the last minute, I never feel comfortable with that.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Alomar scoffed at the idea that a lack of experience in the dugout might have hurt him in some of his early interviews.<\/p>\n

\u201cI felt like I had a lot of experience before,\u2019\u2019 Alomar said. \u201cI played 20 years in the big leagues. I wasn\u2019t in the NFL. I do sabermetrics and all that stuff. I\u2019m on top of all that, too.\u201d<\/p>\n

He\u2019s not holding his breath for another shot.<\/p>\n

\u201cI understand you\u2019ve got to go through the process, I get it. Right now, my daughter is in high school.I don\u2019t need the job,\u201d Alomar said. \u201cIf someone is interested and calls, we\u2019ll talk. I\u2019m not promoting myself. In other words, I don\u2019t have a hidden agenda.\u201d<\/p>\n\n

The Yankees got their wish not to have to pitch J.A. Happ on Thursday night in a wild-card Game<\/a> 3. The Yankees planned to fly to San Diego on Thursday morning after winning two straight from the Indians and advancing to the ALDS.<\/p>\n

The best-of-five ALDS opens Monday at Petco Park and if Aaron Boone sticks with the same plan he had against the Indians, Happ likely would start Game 3 on Wednesday. Gerrit Cole and Masahiro Tanaka would work the first two games. <\/p>\n

Happ had a vesting option for $17 million for 2021 based on making 25 starts or pitching 165 innings this season. Because the COVID-19 pandemic resulted in a 60-game schedule, that was prorated to 10 starts, or 61\u00b9\/\u2083 innings. The veteran lefty started nine regular-season games and threw 49\u00b9\/\u2083 innings.<\/p>\n

Despite being healthy, Happ made just three starts from Aug. 5 to Aug. 29.<\/p>\n

Asked on Aug. 25 if he thought the lack of activity might be related to the vesting option, Happ said: \u201cYou guys [in the media<\/a>] are pretty smart. It doesn\u2019t take too much to figure out, sort of, what could be going on.\u201d<\/p>\n

Happ has opted not to discuss the situation lately.<\/p>\n

In a three-start stretch from July 30 to Aug. 16 Happ went 1-1 with a 6.39 ERA and allowed 10 walks and struck out six in 12 \u00b2\/\u2083 innings. Puzzling was the fact hitters batted .217 against him during that stretch.<\/p>\n

Provided more regular work in Boone\u2019s rotation down the stretch, Happ went 1-1 with a 2.22 ERA, struck out 27 and issued four walks in four starts to close out the regular season.<\/p>\n

With the vesting option not kicking in, Happ will join James Paxton and Tanaka as free agents following the World Series<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n

Yankees pitching coach Matt Blake worked for the Indians from 2016-19, holding a number of jobs, the last as director of pitching development.<\/p>\n

So, did Boone go to Blake for information about the Indians\u2019 pitchers heading into the wild-card series?<\/p>\n

\u201cCertainly leaned on him for some information and some things, kind of giving me some context of their starting pitchers he has been around and some of their relievers,\u2019\u2019 Boone said of his rookie pitching coach. \u201cBut along with our scouts who have been watching these guys for a couple of weeks now and coupled with the analytical information we get you add all that up and you feel like you have a pretty good idea of an opponent.\u2019\u2019\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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