As I watch the Fox Saturday game (Yankees vs. Cleveland), Ken Rosenthal just announced that the Astros have a 5:30 pm press conference scheduled today.
Rosenthal said he has learned that the Astros plan to extend Cecil Cooper's contract through 2010. Richard Justice of the Chronicle must like the way the Astros seem to be responding to his blog suggestions. Justice recently criticized the Astros because they hadn't extended Cooper's contract. Justice also suggested signing Pudge in a blog piece, which later was fulfilled by an Astros' signing. Jose Ortiz's blog implied that Cooper's actions are affected by the possibility that he could be fired if the team doesn't get off to a good start. I wonder if Ortiz's article, which also criticized Cooper for using Valverde when he is possibly injured, is also a catalyst?
Is this a good idea? Oh, I don't know. I have already said that it makes more sense to evaluate Cooper at the end of this year instead of giving him an extension. But what do I know?
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I say bad idea
But to reiterate your point: What do I know?
Stephen Higdon - April 18, 2009
Give him his contract.
If he sucks, fire him. Eat the $2 million you’ll pay him next year and find someone else. We’re paying Villareal $1.6 million to not pitch for us this year and I think we paid Woody Williams $6 million to not pitch for us awhile back, so we should be used to it.
entropic soul - April 18, 2009
I don’t even know if his option runs as high as $2 million. Scrap Iron was only working for about $1.2-$1.3 million post World Series.
Even though I stringently disagree with the philosophy, if it leads to Coop making better decisions and him setting a better attitude in the clubhouse, it’ll be worth it, even if we cut him short later on. However, we would look stupid if we gave him an extension in the same year we fire him. How often does that happen?
AstroAndy - April 18, 2009
would you really want
someone who lets the presence of an extension affect his performance running your organization?
I don’t like this. Coop’s not why the Astros are sucking right now, but I don’t like the way he manages games or personnel.
Only_A_Lad - April 18, 2009
Sigh... no Jim Deshaies for another year then
goingforthecorner - April 19, 2009
It's entirely possible that we are positioning ourselves for B. Ausmus
:)
AstroAndy - April 19, 2009
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