With the team in a tailspin since the All-Star game, Philadelphia Phillies manager Charlie Manuel is fired and replaced by Hall of Famer and former Cubs second baseman Ryne Sandberg, the Phillies’ third base coach.
As the 2013 major league baseball season comes to a close, Ryne Sandberg is the new manager for the Philadelphia Phillies.
The Phillies hired former Philadelphia Phillies and Chicago Cubs player Ryne Sandberg during winter 2010 to manage the minor league Lehigh Valley Iron Pigs, but then extended Charlie Manuel’s job as manager through the 2013 season. The contract with Charlie Manuel squelched ideas that Ryne Sandberg would soon be manager of the Philadelphia Phillies. But that’s all changed now.
The Phillies have won only four of their last 23 games. While general manager Rubén Amaro, Jr. hasn’t expressed a lot of commitment for Sandberg’s assignment, at least the sentimental favorite as a Chicago Cub’s manager might gain the major league experience that kept him from general manager Theo Epstein’s consideration for the Cubs’ job.
A strange sight for Chicago Cub’s fans.
A while back, the St. Louis Cardinals asked the Phillies for permission to interview Ryne Sandberg. Now that would something.
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