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The story
The Yomiuri Giants’ acting manager, Hideki Hashigami (60), is expected to step down, with Hideki Matsui, Yoshinobu Takahashi, and coach Kawai among the names floated as potential successors. Former manager Shinnosuke Abe (47) left the dugout after the team’s Climax Series elimination loss to DeNA, and it has now been decided he will return to the organization. On 5ch, posters voiced skepticism over whether Matsui — who lives in New York and has his children’s schooling to consider — would really take the manager’s job, while also debating whether coach Kawai, who once played for another team (Chunichi), fits the unwritten rule that Giants managers must be “homegrown.”
Giants’ Acting Manager Hideki Hashigami Set to Step Down — Hideki Matsui, Yoshinobu Takahashi, Coach Kawai Among Successor Candidates; Former Manager Shinnosuke Abe to Return to the Organization
It was learned on the 11th that Giants acting manager Hideki Hashigami (60) is expected to step down.
Former manager Shinnosuke Abe (47), who had been running the team since resigning and taking charge from the interleague games onward, saw the Giants eliminated this day after losing Game 2 of the Climax Series (CS) First Stage to DeNA.
Source: news.yahoo.co.jp / Original article here
What people said
Isn't there an unwritten rule that it has to be a homegrown guy?
Hashigami, who has zero ties to the team, pulling off 'acting' manager was already an irregular exception.
But becoming the real 'manager'? That's another story.
Kawai wasn't even a core hitter, and he left the team on bad terms once before.
It's Hara.
he went and joined Ochiai's Chunichi. I'm a Chunichi fan myself, but still.
If Matsui agrees, it's Matsui. If he turns it down, it'll be Hara or Uehara.
Hashigami, who isn't even a Giants alum, got the acting manager job over Kawai.
There's no way Kawai becomes manager now.
the only choice that would actually make them happy is Matsui.
Matsui's still based in the US with his kids' schooling to think about — no way he takes this, especially with the roster as it is.
It makes more sense to think he'd take the job together with the new Tsukiji stadium project.
Whether his popularity and name value still carry that much weight these days, though, who knows.
so a 'Matsui Giants' might actually happen.
Countering the Tigers and Kudoh's Chunichi would take that kind of impact.
I heard Matsui turned the team down even when Nagashima was on his deathbed and personally asked him — that's gotta mean he doesn't trust the front office.
He's not coming back unless they offer him something like an executive-level front-office position.
A manager job alone won't cut it.
A manager's just a disposable piece anyway.
Matsui's no fool — he figured that out long ago.
Even Sadaharu Oh never got that job, so 'Matsui' or 'Uehara,' lol, no way that's happening.
Actually, is there not a single alum out there willing to step up and say 'I'll turn this team around'? Pathetic.
What's this guy even talking about.
He did manage, after Fujita…
Pitcher Kadotori!! (another old Giants name — just a joking jab)
That was before Oh went to SoftBank, lol
'Furuta's Formula' covered the story of how Oh ended up going to Daiei recently.
Apparently he turned it down at first, but Nemoto — on his deathbed — reportedly said that since Oh was even willing to hear the offer out, there was still a chance, so push him into it.
In a way, it was Nemoto's last power play (寝技, lit. a 'grappling hold' — a final clever maneuver).
Why hand the haters more ammo to pile on?
Do fans even want this?
Probably because they got good reviews at the WBC or something.
Even with an incompetent manager, the setup had the number two covering for him.
Re: #71
'Hashimoto, Monna' — sounds like the name of a once-in-a-millennium talent (well, the name alone, anyway).
He seems like the type who'd yell 'You idiot!' at the mound every single game.
What about Makihara?
Wasn't Makihara the guy who had a huge contract dispute? Something about free agency.
I'd say his odds are even lower than Kuwata's.
The Giants really are something, holding a grudge over a free-agency spat, lol
As a former Giants fan, it's sad seeing the team fall this far — there's barely a trace of what it used to be.
I figured his Yankees minor-league roving instructor gig was just an honorary title in name only,
but I was surprised to see him going around coaching really seriously.
He might actually be cut out for that kind of work.
I'd love to see that, just once.
At least his face kind of resembles Yoshinobu Yamamoto's, I'll give him that.
They should've just given him a full season, even just one.
What are you talking about?
Hashigami was only brought in as a Giants coach because Abe called him up.
Now that Abe's gone from the field staff, there's no reason left to keep him on (as a coach).
Background and Key Points of the Debate
This season, following former manager Shinnosuke Abe’s resignation, the Giants took the unusual step of appointing Hideki Hashigami — a man with no field-management experience who isn’t even a Giants alum — as acting manager. Giants managerial succession has traditionally gone to homegrown alumni, so the thread’s central debate was over whether someone like coach Kawai, who once played for another team, could become manager. Hideki Matsui’s name comes up readily as a candidate, but opinions are split on how realistic that actually is, given his continued life and coaching work in the US and some skepticism about his relationship with the front office. As for the circumstances of former manager Abe’s resignation and the assessment of his return to the organization, the thread contained no definitive information beyond what’s already been reported, and comments offering uncertain personal judgments have been left out of this article.
*This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5ch (Geisports Sokuhou+) thread ‘[Breaking] Giants’ Acting Manager Hideki Hashigami Set to Step Down… Hideki Matsui, Yoshinobu Takahashi, Coach Kawai Among Successor Candidates; Former Manager Shinnosuke Abe to Return to the Organization‘.
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