Let's hope he doesn't want the job. He has done an excellent job for the Yankees and it would seriously hurt to lose him. Less critical to Yankees management, it has also been rumored that Kevin Towers could leave to take this job. This is all the result of the Diamondbacks making a somewhat hasty decision. I'll let Bob Nightengale explain:
The Arizona Diamondbacks, believing the team has grossly underachieved, fired general manager Josh Byrnes and manager A.J. Hinch on Thursday night.A.J. Hinch was saddled with not just the worst bullpen in baseball but one of the worst in years. He was inexperienced but he was also in a leadership position on several major league teams. He was Byrnes' guy and if he wanted to stick with him that should have been the prerogative of a GM doing an excellent job in most respects.
They promoted bench coach Kirk Gibson to be the interim manager. Jerry DiPoto, the vice president of player personnel, will be the interim GM.
Diamondbacks owner Ken Kendrick and President Derrick Hall have made no secret of their dissatisfaction with the baseball operations department. Yet it was unclear whether the Diamondbacks would be willing to eat their large contracts. Byrnes had a contract through 2015 and Hinch, who was hired on May 7, 2009, without any managerial experience, had one through 2012.
"I appreciate the commitment and dedication that Josh and A.J. demonstrated during their tenures,'' Kendrick said in a statement. "Their dismissal is a significant decision, but one that we find necessary in order to achieve a direction of winning consistently on the field again. We have a number of talented players, but obviously, see great room for improvement. We look forward to bringing permanence to these two baseball leadership roles.''
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