{"id":1503634,"date":"2022-06-05T07:50:39","date_gmt":"2022-06-05T11:50:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1503634"},"modified":"2022-06-05T07:50:54","modified_gmt":"2022-06-05T11:50:54","slug":"phillies-fire-supervisor-joe-girard-after-poor-begin-to-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/phillies-fire-supervisor-joe-girard-after-poor-begin-to-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Phillies Fire Supervisor Joe Girard After Poor Begin to Season"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fphillies-fire-supervisor-joe-girard-after-poor-begin-to-season%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1503634&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<aside id=\"right1forarticles\">\n<\/aside>\n<div id=\"ob-read-more-selector\">\n<p>The Philadelphia Phillies fired manager Joe Girardi after a poor start to their 2022 MLB season.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement published to Twitter on Friday, the Phillies announced that Girardi would be relieved of his duties as the team\u2019s manager while their bench coach, Rob Thomson, will be his replacement.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">The Phillies have relieved Joe Girardi of his duties as manager today. Bench coach Rob Thomson has been named interim manager for the club through the end of the 2022 season. In addition, coaching assistant Bobby Meacham was also relieved of his duties. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/lVL60RrSnJ\">pic.twitter.com\/lVL60RrSnJ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Philadelphia Phillies (@Phillies) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Phillies\/status\/1532728997351661573?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 3, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In Girardi\u2019s two plus-years as Philadelphia\u2019s manager, he lost more games than he won. During his tenure, the ballclub went 132-141. The team is currently a lousy 22-29 and are 5 1\/2 games out of the playoff picture, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/story\/_\/id\/34031182\/philadelphia-phillies-fire-manager-joe-girardi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ESPN.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Phillies President of baseball operations, David Dombrowski, said, \u201cit has been a frustrating season for us up until this point, as we feel that our club has not played up to its capabilities.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile all of us share the responsibility for the shortcomings, I felt that a change was needed and that a new voice in the clubhouse would give us the best chance to turn things around. I believe we have a talented group that can get back on track, and I am confident that Rob, with his experience and familiarity with our club, is the right man to lead us going forward,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>According to MLB.com, the Phillies have not been to the playoffs in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlb.com\/phillies\/history\/year-by-year-results\/postseason\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">11 seasons<\/a>. <strong><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Frank Gore Officially Retires As A Member Of The San Francisco 49ers)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>With the change of managers, Philly hopes to climb back into playoff contention and make something of this rocky season of theirs.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Philadelphia Phillies fired manager Joe Girardi after a poor start to their 2022 MLB season.In a statement published to Twitter on Friday, the Phillies announced that Girardi<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":489,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1503634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1503634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/489"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1503634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1503634\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1503634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1503634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1503634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}