It was a move that made no sense and had little significance. Washington is a smart baseball man of the old school, yet Gallego is as well.
It’s easy to go snotty and say, “Oh, so Mike Gallego is the reason the A’s have the worst one-run record in baseball,” or “Well, a new third-base coach will fix it,” or even “Someone has to teach Marcus Semien to handle the ball.”
So let’s go that way. I mean, the A’s have bigger trout to fillet anyway. Namely, maintaining their improbable last-place record and plus run-differential.
Gallego’s firing as Oakland's third base coach with 37 games still to play is a bizarre notion except that it seems to have been in the works since the day Ron Washington was hired to be, well, Ron Washington.