\u0022One thing you should know about me by now is if I\u0027m going down, I\u0027m going down fighting.\u0022
That he lasted three full seasons after Shapiro’s arrival in November 2015 was an accomplishment in itself, even though it was apparent early on that Gibbons wasn’t exactly a fit with the new regime.
In fact, Gibbons says that he heard early on that he wasn’t in the team’s long-term plan. He was eventually replaced by Charlie Montoyo in advance of the 2019 season. Montoyo, in turn, was fired last summer, paving the way for current manager John Schneider. Toronto Blue Jays manager John Gibbons and general manager Ross Atkins shake hands after addressing media before the game against the Houston Astros at the Rogers Centre in Toronto, Ont. on Wednesday September 26, 2018. They both confirmed this will be his last season as manager. Ernest Doroszuk/Toronto Sun
“There was a lot of hiring going on and every time you turned around, it seemed like you bumped int somebody new,” Gibbons writes. “Now I knew why we couldn’t sign Eddie or Jose — we had to pay all these new people.” “Atkins and Shapiro were making everything more corporate and now that included how the team tended to the players physically,” Gibbons writes. “They brought in this group, they called them high performance and it was people with different medical-type backgrounds — a lot of them.”Article content
“Some of the players complained about it, but there was nothing I could do,” Gibbons says. “It fit well for a 2018 season that was going south again pretty quickly. It gave us something else to bitch about.”
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