{"id":4690,"date":"2009-11-10T10:48:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-10T10:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yurasko.net\/wfy\/2009\/11\/riggleman-looks-to-be-the-choice-as-nats-manager.html"},"modified":"2009-11-10T10:48:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-10T10:48:00","slug":"riggleman-looks-to-be-the-choice-as-nats-manager","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yurasko.net\/wfy\/2009\/11\/riggleman-looks-to-be-the-choice-as-nats-manager\/","title":{"rendered":"Riggleman looks to be the choice as Nats manager"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"post-article-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2009\/09\/09\/AR2009090903403.html\"><b>Nats&#8217; search for manager could lead to Riggleman<\/b><\/a> &#8211; <i>The Post<\/i><br \/><a class=\"post-article-link\" href=\"http:\/\/mlb.mlb.com\/news\/article.jsp?ymd=20091109&#038;content_id=7643560&#038;vkey=news_mlb&#038;fext=.jsp&#038;c_id=mlb\"><b>Riggleman: Nats to decide soon<\/b><\/a> &#8211; <i>nationals.com<\/i><br \/>Interim manager <span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">Jim Riggleman<\/span> likes his chances to be hired full time as Washington Nationals manager. The only other interviews the Nats have conducted have been with <span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">Bobby Valentine<\/span> and <span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">Bob Melvin<\/span>. Valentine would cost a lot of money, but potentially would have insight into Japanese players since he spent so much time managing over their. Melvin managed the Diamondbacks to the playoffs a while back. <span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">Stan Kasten<\/span> said he is using this period to get insights and opinions on the team. I can&#8217;t fault that strategy, especially since they were not supposed to make any announcement during the World Series. However, the Series has been over for half a week, why keep us hanging? Oh, so you can scold people at the press conference for creating an artificial timeline, that&#8217;s why Stan.<\/p>\n<p>Riggleman expects an announcement after the general manager meetings. I don&#8217;t have a problem with Riggleman staying around, provided he learned what not to do with young arms; keep the pitch counts low Jim! We don&#8217;t want <span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">Stephen Strasburg<\/span> to be another <span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">Kerry Wood<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/website_3c1e0e40\/graphics\/technorati.gif\" border=\"0\">  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/WashingtonNationals\" rel=\"tag\">Washington Nationals<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/nats\" rel=\"tag\">Nats<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/JimRiggleman\" rel=\"tag\">Jim Riggleman<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\">&copy;MMX William F. Yurasko<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nats&#8217; search for manager could lead to Riggleman &#8211; The PostRiggleman: Nats to decide soon &#8211; nationals.comInterim manager Jim Riggleman likes his chances to be hired full time as Washington Nationals manager. The only other interviews the Nats have conducted have been with Bobby Valentine and Bob Melvin. 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