About time (even tho Angels fans kinda knew already).
He brought us our only WS, and will probably make it to the HoF as a manager, but it is time. He abandoned the style of play, "small ball," hit and run, stealing bases, bunting (in the correct situations), etc that made him successful. Arte did him no favors with a bevy of albatross signings/contracts -- Matthews Jr, Wells, Wilson, Hamilton, Pujols to name a few -- but it's still time for him to go.
I started watching Angels baseball when Terry Collins was our manager, and Bavasi our GM, and those mid-late 90s years were part of the dark ages of our team's history, and we've never enjoyed as much success under any other manager, but it's time. I'll miss him, for sure. His weird, confused looks from the dugout, his yapping at blue when a bad call, charging the mound (tho, in recent years he's done it less and less), the respect he garnered from blue, the respect the players had for him, his embracing of a close-knit clubhouse... all of it, the good and bad. But now, it's mostly bad. He's outdated, clings to "vet grittiness" over young potential or who's hot, doesn't know how to deploy the BP any longer, and he's probably checked out, anyways.
