The Brooklyn Robins today have announced that long time pitching coach George Kent has been relieved of his duties. The 65 year old Kent had been with the organization since 2025 and was one of the rare remaining holdovers from the previous GM's regime. Kent started off his Robins career in Geroge Town, a then winterball league. When the league converted to a short season A-ball league, George Kent was the pitching coach at the helm of the inaugural Supremacy Series.
After being promoted to Brooklyn in 2033, Kent gained a lot of attention for his outside the box views on what a modern pitching staff should look like. From juggling starters to find better matchups, extremely quick hooks for starters, and being one of the first teams to employ high usage relievers. Kent was a pioneer and a lot of his finger prints can be seen across the BBA today.
Yet for everything good Kent did, there were 3 or 4 failed experiments. Over the past several seasons Brooklyn has been a laughing stock, primarily on the pitching end. Not all of this was the fault of George Kent. The pitching half of this Brooklyn rebuild has seen more lumps then a whore in a one whore town. While the GM did him no favors by trading away Drees Geestman, Miguel Ayala and passing on every quality free agent pitcher available.
Owner Dale Doback was said to be on the fence about whether he should take his GM's suggestion to fire Kent or to relieve the GM of duties instead. Sources say it was a really close decision as the the Robins GM continues to be on the hot seat.
Taking over the pitching coach duties will be long time Robin Mario Méndez, who has immediately made a few subtle changes to the staff and will continue to monitor this dumpster fire he is tasked on extinguishing.
Rumors also swirl around bench coach Chris Phillips who could be on the outs as well.