Daniel Linares
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489 appearances
3 recordings
2 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 3 Jul
Daniel Linares’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Well, I think we've got to try to be fair.
When we talk about managers, we're talking about – it's like the football backup quarterback situation, right?
Like the easiest person – the easiest change you can make if a football team is struggling is get another quarterback in there.
And if a baseball team is struggling, everyone wants to say if it's not get rid of the manager, it's fire the hitting coach or something to that effect.
But I do think in this instance, because of the circumstances around Dan Wilson, for Blue Jays fans that don't know, Dan Wilson was hired in late 2024 with literally zero managerial experience of any kind.
I think he had maybe sort of gone down to AAA and as a franchise icon done a fun kind of show, I'm going to manage for a day kind of thing for the Rainiers.
But other than that, this guy had no managerial experience.
And you couple that with patterns of...
inefficient usage and questionable usage of his bullpen and i think jay's fans who watch game seven of the alcs may have an idea of what i'm talking about and we've seen that continue into this season where a bullpen is we're saving andres muñoz for a ninth inning that never comes because we're using some of our lower leverage relievers in these high leverage spots in the eighth he's
An incredibly nice man and very well respected as a person from everybody that I've ever talked to.
I think that the clubhouse more or less really respects him for those reasons.
But as a tactician on the field, as somebody who has to push the buttons and has to keep a game under control from innings one through nine, there are real obvious issues.
repeated glaring shortcomings that average lay people like myself can see happening over and over and over again and we started this segment by me saying this is the only team that's never made a World Series well this is a roster that theoretically can change that it's one of the few true Championship contending windows this franchise has seen in 50 years
So the question then becomes, however nice of a guy he is, is this the guy pushing the buttons that we want to use with one of our few championship contending teams we've ever had?
And for me.
through no disrespect to Dan, I just don't think that I'm there.
I just don't see it.
Okay, well, we'll hope that they continue the good times this weekend, but I really appreciate you having me.
I hope everybody who comes down to Seattle has a great and safe 4th and really enjoys their time in the city.
And we're back on another episode of The Vault Unlocked.
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