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2010's Managerial Exodus Will Give Dugouts Different Look Next Spring

All this week, the FanHouse staff will look back at the most significant baseball storylines of 2010. When the 2010 baseball season started, four of the top 14 managers all-time in terms of win total were at the helm of big league teams. When 2011 starts, only one of those four, St. Louis' Tony La Russa, will still be...

Blue Jays Honor Cito Gaston With Fake 'Staches, Travis Snider Hits HR

Cito Gaston is retiring at the end of the 2010 Major League Baseball season. When he calls it quits, he will have twice managed the Toronto Blue Jays, first from 1989-1997 (including two World Series championships in '93 and '97) and then from 2008 through the present. And on Wednesday the organization held a pregame...

Overheard and Understood: Cito Gaston Getting Off Managerial Carousel

One could not blame Cito Gaston, with the Blue Jays not in contention for the playoffs, if his mind occasionally wandered to thoughts of the Irish countryside, South African safaris or Sydney harbor. But as the end of his managerial career approaches, Gaston claims no twinges of wistfulness nor sentimentality -- "So far I...

FanHouse TV: Manager Merry-Go-Round

With the Mariners' firing of Don Wakamatsu this week, we may have seen our last managerial change of the 2010 season. With the season nearing its end and five managers already given their walking papers, it may be the offseason before we see more changes in the dugout. When we get to that offseason, as FanHouse TV's...

Major League Notebook: June 8

Here's what is happening around baseball on Tuesday June 8, 2010: • It appears that even in success, the Mariners just can't find happiness. In the wake of a three-hit game Monday night, Chone Figgins was still steamed because he had been dropped from No. 2 to No. 9 in Seattle's batting order. Though M's manager Don...