We all understand that managers are hired to be fired and when a team underperforms it is generally the manager that is the first domino to fall in an attempt to right the ship. However, with all the blame focussed currently on John Gibbons, perhaps critics should climb another rung up the corporate ladder and focus their sites on Ross Atkins.
At the end of the day, it was Atkins pulling the trigger on deals to build a winner for the past two seasons, Gibby just tried to work with what the General Manager put on the field.