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[QUOTE="jncuse, post: 5181375, member: 1969"]
Shatkins did a pretty good job up to 2021.   Although they inherited a playoff team in 2016, it was a very old team, and there was a severe lack of MLB ready players developed over the AA era.

That 2021 team that missed the playoffs was a very good team (great run differential), it was still young, had some "home run" veteran signings in Semien and Robbie Ray.      That team needed a few tweaks and the continued development of its younger core.   Unfortunately most of that core regressed at various point of 2022-2024, and Shatkins continued to make poor moves or the improper tweaks,,, and did nothing to address the regression of its hitters, until today when they dismissed their hitting coach.   Don Mattingly has also been a bit of a disaster in terms of an "offensive co-ordinator".   His opposite field approach doesn't really work today, except for a few hitters.

Time for them to go.. at least Atkins.  If Shapiro wants to stay around as the team president business guy, taking away his hands on over player moves, I guess I'm OK with that.
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