I just think there is too much acceptance of mediocrity.
This is such a cliché thing to say. There are 30 teams in MLB. 12 Teams make the playoffs, 4 of which barely do. That means the other 18 teams, unless they fire their manager are accepting mediocrity. These are all pro players, pro coaches all trying to compete. For tons of reasons, it works out some years for a team, and some years it doesn't, and usually very little to do with the manager. John Farrell got the boot, because his players didn't like him.(does that equate a player performing bad? Impossible to quantify, I don't believe so) Dave Dombrowski really should have been the one that got the axe. Joe Girardi wanted more money, so the Yankees opted not to give him a new contract. That should give you an idea of how much the Yankees feel about the worth of a manager.
Firing your manager for the most part, is more of a marketing tool, and the public buy into it. "Next year we should be better, because we have a new manager. Don't stop watching the games or buying tickets. We're getting a new manager, and things will be different".
Both Girardi and Farrell won the WS not to long ago, but now they some how lost that skill set.
I find it very refreshing when a team says "hey, it's not the manager. He can only do so much. We're not gonna waste money firing a guy who we'll still have to pay, hire another someone else, and probably end up with the same result because it was more a talent and injury issue, than a guy who sits on the bench making a handful of calls a night to change pitchers or pinch run".
The Jays were a were a below .500 team this year for many different reasons , and if you think swopping the manager is the way to fix it because we then won't be accepting "mediocrity", your entitled to your opinion, but my guess is you could have gotten "the worlds best baseball manager" (whoever that is), and you would have pretty much the same result with this team. So why focus on the manager when there's much bigger fish to fry?
I posted this, then saw Keebler's post. Haha!