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Manager is Latest In Line of October-phobic Skippers
May 16, 2048: Yellow Springs – With the Yellow Springs Nine riding along in their accustomed position of first in the Heartland division, manager Alberto Sánchez has begun making waves about his future with the team. Sánchez came to the team in 2046 after Sam Brewington was unable to push the Nine over the October line in four attempts, but has fared little better as the club has dropped post-season series with Omaha to end each of his runs.
Now the manager is rumored to be threatening to go back to his home in Santiago unless the team ponies up considerably more than the $268K he’s making now.
“My client is being reasonable,” said Willy Cash, Sánchez’s representative. “But he does want to make what seems right.”
The team’s front office is apparently not overly concerned, given that the manager hasn’t made friends in the executive suite by demanding to hire Sabeeh Ameer as his pitching coach, and threatening to leave the team rudderless if Ameer wasn’t given a king’s ransom as a salary. The Nine capitulated, but the sour taste was created. Now, with Sánchez at the end of his contract, some buzz is building that suggests bench coach Lucas McNeill could be tagged to take over the wheel soon—a move some outsiders have been expecting for some time. While Sánchez is a major name in the Nine organization, it is dwarfed by McNeill’s.
Sánchez's career record at the Nine helm stands at 227-141 in the regular season.
“I’m going to focus on baseball,” Sánchez said in a pre-game interview. “That’s why we all have agents, you know? They take care of the busy stuff so we can just focus on winning.”
McNeill had no comment.