My Least Favorite Move of 2010

John Williamson/Getty Images In Bob Geren’s first season as manager for the Oakland A’s, that was 2007, he had his pitchers issue 60 intentional walks … the most in the American League. You probably can imagine how this made me feel about Bob Geren’s managerial stylings. For some reason that year, I caught a game against Cleveland where he had his pitchers intentionally walk Trot Nixon AND Ryan Garko, same game, an intentional walk two-fer that undoubtedly sparked my regrettable “if I was owner, I would fire him in the middle of a game” baseball temper. Now, to be fair, I should say here that it is true that Geren has not been the same Walking Manager since then. He cut down his intentional walk call quite a bit in his second year, and in Year Three he only had his pitchers issue 30 intentional walks, which was just one more than the league average. So he definitely seemed to come down, at least when it came to intentionally walking people. Of co...