1. 新闻来源：
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2. 新闻标题：
Rangers Fire Jeff Banister
3. 新闻内容：
By Steve Adams | September 21, 2018 at 1:00pm CDT
1:00pm: The Rangers have announced that Banister has been relieved of his
duties. Wakamatsu will finish out the season as the interim manager.
12:42pm: The Rangers will not bring manager Jeff Banister back for a fifth
season in 2019, reports Evan Grant of the Dallas Morning News. Banister is
under contract for next season, but he’ll earn his reported $950K salary
while someone else takes the helm for the Rangers, it seems. Grant notes that
Banister will not finish out the season, and bench coach Don Wakamatsu will
likely serve as the interim skipper.
It’s a jarring fall for Banister, the 2015 American League Manager of the
Year. He guided the Rangers to a pair of winning records and a consecutive
American League Division Series appearances in 2015-16 — his first two at
the helm of a Major League organization. The 2017 Rangers disappointed but
hung around in the race until September, ultimately finishing at 78-84. The
Rangers have ensured a worse record than that in 2018 with 88 losses already
in the books.
Certainly, it’d be unfair to place the entirety of the 2018 team’s failures
on Banister’s shoulders. He was scarcely afforded a rotation to work with as
the Rangers performed a series of half-measures last offseason, declining to
enter a definitive rebuild but also paring back payroll and signing a series
of stopgaps for the rotation. Texas came out of the gates strong with a
three-year deal for Mike Minor to return to a starting role, but that was
paired with low-cost additions of Doug Fister, Matt Moore and Bartolo Colon.
Moore, perhaps, could’ve been considered an upside play, but pairing that
unit with Minor and the returning Cole Hamels never looked like anywhere near
enough to have a realistic shot at contending in 2018.
That said, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram’s Jeff Wilson reported in a detailed
column yesterday that Banister’s communication skills with his players had
come under fire recently, with pitchers sometimes not knowing when their next
start would be while some position players would find themselves in the
lineup having previously been assured a day off. Texas also burned through
several closers very quickly under Banister’s watch, with Shawn Tolleson
flaming out in 2016 after being used on five consecutive days to close out
the 2015 regular season. Sam Dyson, another bullpen workhorse under Banister,
had dismal 2017 results after a heavy workload in 2016, though he’s since
bounced back in San Francisco.
Wakamatsu, Grant further tweets, figures to become a candidate to take over
the club on a full-time basis in 2019 and beyond. That said, the Rangers will
surely interview candidates from outside the organization as they look for a
developmentally-inclined skipper to help them through some degree of a
rebuilding process. It’s not clear whether the Rangers will retain any of
the current coaching staff, though the fact that Wakamatsu will be considered
as a replacement bodes well for his chances of returning in some capacity.
4. 新闻网址：
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5. 备注：
(1) 游骑兵队宣布解聘总教练Jeff Banister，剩余赛季将由Don Wakamatsu暂带兵符。
(2) Jeff Banister原本在2014年签了3+1(选择权)的合约，后来游骑兵队决定延长合约至
2018年加上2019年的选择权，现在解聘他仍可拿到$950K的薪水。
(3) 执掌游骑兵队的成绩表现：
W L W-L% 美西排名 季后赛成绩(W-L,%) 备注
2015 88 74 .543 1 2-3, 0.4 MOY, ALDS输给蓝鸟
2016 95 67 .586 1 0-3, 0 ALDS输给蓝鸟
2017 78 84 .481 3 0
2018 64 88 .421 5 0
(4) 根据专栏指出，近期Jeff Banister跟球员间的沟通模式受到抨击，有些投手不知道下
一场先发是什么时候，也不知道如何准备、有些野手事先被告知轮休却进先发名单，反之
亦然；另一项争议点是他执掌期间球队的终结者待不久、常常换人，像是Shawn Tolleson
(2015年球季结束前曾连五场出赛至球季结束)、Sam Dyson(2016年投球局数负担量大，后
来被交易至巨人队)。
(5) 在重建期中，Don Wakamatsu是球队其中一位接掌至2019年或之后的总教练候选人，未
来游骑兵也会从球团体制外找寻人选来协助重建。在其他教练方面，还不清楚游骑兵会不
会留任任何一位教练。