Rangers Fire Jeff Banister - 美國職棒

1. 新聞來源：

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2. 新聞標題：

Rangers Fire Jeff Banister

3. 新聞內容：

By Steve Adams | September 21, 2018 at 1:00pm CDT

1:00pm: The Rangers have announced that Banister has been relieved of his
duties. Wakamatsu will finish out the season as the interim manager.

12:42pm: The Rangers will not bring manager Jeff Banister back for a fifth
season in 2019, reports Evan Grant of the Dallas Morning News. Banister is
under contract for next season, but he’ll earn his reported $950K salary
while someone else takes the helm for the Rangers, it seems. Grant notes that
Banister will not finish out the season, and bench coach Don Wakamatsu will
likely serve as the interim skipper.

It’s a jarring fall for Banister, the 2015 American League Manager of the
Year. He guided the Rangers to a pair of winning records and a consecutive
American League Division Series appearances in 2015-16 — his first two at
the helm of a Major League organization. The 2017 Rangers disappointed but
hung around in the race until September, ultimately finishing at 78-84. The
Rangers have ensured a worse record than that in 2018 with 88 losses already
in the books.

Certainly, it’d be unfair to place the entirety of the 2018 team’s failures
on Banister’s shoulders. He was scarcely afforded a rotation to work with as
the Rangers performed a series of half-measures last offseason, declining to
enter a definitive rebuild but also paring back payroll and signing a series
of stopgaps for the rotation. Texas came out of the gates strong with a
three-year deal for Mike Minor to return to a starting role, but that was
paired with low-cost additions of Doug Fister, Matt Moore and Bartolo Colon.
Moore, perhaps, could’ve been considered an upside play, but pairing that
unit with Minor and the returning Cole Hamels never looked like anywhere near
enough to have a realistic shot at contending in 2018.

That said, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram’s Jeff Wilson reported in a detailed
column yesterday that Banister’s communication skills with his players had
come under fire recently, with pitchers sometimes not knowing when their next
start would be while some position players would find themselves in the
lineup having previously been assured a day off. Texas also burned through
several closers very quickly under Banister’s watch, with Shawn Tolleson
flaming out in 2016 after being used on five consecutive days to close out
the 2015 regular season. Sam Dyson, another bullpen workhorse under Banister,
had dismal 2017 results after a heavy workload in 2016, though he’s since
bounced back in San Francisco.

Wakamatsu, Grant further tweets, figures to become a candidate to take over
the club on a full-time basis in 2019 and beyond. That said, the Rangers will
surely interview candidates from outside the organization as they look for a
developmentally-inclined skipper to help them through some degree of a
rebuilding process. It’s not clear whether the Rangers will retain any of
the current coaching staff, though the fact that Wakamatsu will be considered
as a replacement bodes well for his chances of returning in some capacity.

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5. 備註：

(1) 遊騎兵隊宣布解聘總教練Jeff Banister，剩餘賽季將由Don Wakamatsu暫帶兵符。

(2) Jeff Banister原本在2014年簽了3+1(選擇權)的合約，後來遊騎兵隊決定延長合約至
2018年加上2019年的選擇權，現在解聘他仍可拿到$950K的薪水。

(3) 執掌遊騎兵隊的成績表現：
W L W-L% 美西排名 季後賽成績(W-L,%) 備註
2015 88 74 .543 1 2-3, 0.4 MOY, ALDS輸給藍鳥
2016 95 67 .586 1 0-3, 0 ALDS輸給藍鳥
2017 78 84 .481 3 0
2018 64 88 .421 5 0

(4) 根據專欄指出，近期Jeff Banister跟球員間的溝通模式受到抨擊，有些投手不知道下
一場先發是甚麼時候，也不知道如何準備、有些野手事先被告知輪休卻進先發名單，反之
亦然；另一項爭議點是他執掌期間球隊的終結者待不久、常常換人，像是Shawn Tolleson
(2015年球季結束前曾連五場出賽至球季結束)、Sam Dyson(2016年投球局數負擔量大，後
來被交易至巨人隊)。

(5) 在重建期中，Don Wakamatsu是球隊其中一位接掌至2019年或之後的總教練候選人，未
來遊騎兵也會從球團體制外找尋人選來協助重建。在其他教練方面，還不清楚遊騎兵會不
會留任任何一位教練。

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