Doug Glanville

And they felt that the results weren't there.

So more and more of the front office have this influence certainly to make decisions and feel confident that they can put a lot of different personalities in place and still win ballgames.

And it's made the managers a little bit more expendable.

I'd probably say a lot more expendable in today's game.

Well, you know, baseball certainly has that traditional sensibility around, you know, I guess historically to say fathers and sons, but it's like there's a family component.

And Mattingly and Mattingly certainly have that long legacy of being close.

And, you know, I've gotten to know Don a little bit just from it being the Yankees spring training at 05 and over the years.

And he's definitely someone who's qualified, but when you make these type of decisions, you have to look who's closest to you.

And I think managing is very tough today, not only because of the data and the amount of influence, whether it's social media or the amount of people in the analytics department, but it's also the fact that the closeness of your staff

you're going to hire people on your staff or they may bring in somebody that you have to work with that can replace you.

I mean, you see this all the time, right?

You lose your job and the bench coach comes right in.

So a lot of people around you are qualified to run the team or seen as qualified from the front office standpoint.

So you don't have that kind of certainty.

So that's what happened, for example, with Joe Girardi.

And all of a sudden, Rob Thompson's in there and you make moves that people

literally on your bench to take your job.

So I think the positive part of the Mataly is that it is a close family, and there is a legacy that's actually a real positive one.

A guy who hasn't gotten into the Hall of Fame, may never, and is definitely qualified.

But we'll see.