Texas Rangers manager Ron Washington is officially worried about his job. Nolan Ryan has said he shouldn’t be concerned but that can’t stop Washington from being concerned. The Rangers have slid out of first place and are barely clinging on to a wild card berth right now. In September they’re 2-12.
From the Dallas Morning News:
"“I look at it in the big picture,” Washington said on the Fitzsimmons and Durrett Show on KESN-FM 103.3 in Dallas on Tuesday. “What we’ve done here since I’ve been here, that should mean something. If a blip at the end of this year makes people decide that Ron Washington isn’t the guy for the job, there isn’t anything I can do about that.”“Yes, I’m concerned about my job.” Washington said. “Who wouldn’t be? But I hope that I’ve gained credibility for what all we’ve accomplished in the past few years. I’m not a finger pointer. I’m not pointing the finger at no one. We all have to take the blame for our collapse right now if that’s what you want to call it. I’m not calling it a collapse. I’m just calling it a slump. But there isn’t anything I can do about that. I don’t really think about that type of stuff. I know at some point one day in this game of baseball we all have to look for another job, but it isn’t anything I’m concerned about.”"
The Rangers have the pressures of a team succeeding now, but lets not forget that before the Rangers tried to load up on big bats and play Yankees style baseball, Washington had this team rise to success on fundamentals like getting on base and base-running.
They’d be unwise to let him go.