In a bit of a surprise, Mike Matheny was fired on Saturday, not long after that night’s game ended. Much has, and will, be made of Bud Norris and Dexter Fowler and the roles they might have played in this dismissal. While those discussions carry some weight, Matheny was almost done, anyway. While I’ve ridiculed his decision-making, his bullpen usage isn’t especially why he’s out of his gig. This is a Mike Matheny postscript.
Imagine for a moment you were invited to an early Cubs front-office meeting in late 2011. What would you pound the table for?