Hazen was the assistant general manager for the last four years. Dombrowski then was hired as the president of baseball operations and hired Hazen on September 24 as the new general manager. Ĭherington stepped down as the general manager of Red Sox on August 18. Stearns was the assistant General Manager for the Houston Astros. The night after the 2015 baseball regular season ended.Īvila was the assistant General Manager before being promoted to executive vice president of baseball operations and General Manager. Jerry Dipoto Resigned on July 1 Bill Stoneman was named interim General Manager until the night of October 4. Former Rays GM Andrew Friedman was named president of baseball operations the same day. On October 14, 2014, Colletti was removed from his position as general manager of the Dodgers but would remain with them in a new position of senior advisor to the president. On October 14, 2014, it was announced that Friedman would leave the Rays to become the president of baseball operations for the Los Angeles Dodgers. Bridich spent 10 seasons in the Rockies' front office before becoming the general manager. O'Dowd resigned as general manager on October 8, 2014, after 15 seasons at the position, and Bridich was immediately named his replacement. Managerial changes General managers Offseason Team MLB hoped that this would add excitement and drama during the final day, and also limit teams' ability to rest starters at the last minute based on early game results. Eastern Time, reminiscent of the English Premier League's last-day " Survival Sunday" scheduling. The 20 interleague games each team played consisted of two three-game series (one home, one away) against its natural rival (total of six games), two two-game series (one home, one away) against each team for two other opponents (total of eight games one of the matchups took place back-to-back within the same week), and a single three-game series against each team for the last two (one home, one away total of six games).ĭuring the final day of the regular season, all games were scheduled to start simultaneously at 3:00 p.m. Since "natural rivalry" matchups will be part of the three-year divisional rotation (for the first time), the schedule format for interleague games was different from previous years. For 2015, the interleague matchups were AL East vs. The Colorado Rockies, winners of the second NL Wild Card spot, are back for the October dance for the first time since 2009 and just one season after an 87-loss campaign.Main article: 2015 MLB Postseason Bracket Īs was the case in 2014, teams were scheduled to play 19 games against each division opponent for a total of 76 games, and six or seven games against each team from the other two divisions in its league for a total of 66 games.Īll teams were scheduled to play 20 interleague games throughout the season. Arizona is back in the playoffs for the first time since 2011, while this is the Twins’ first postseason trip since 2010. In the National League, the Arizona Diamondbacks rebounded from a 93-loss campaign to capture the top wild card spot with 93 wins in 2017. The Minnesota Twins had the worst record in baseball in 2016 with 103 losses, but this year they’re in the postseason as the second American League Wild Card, the first team ever to make the playoffs one year after losing 100 games. There were a trio of great turnaround stories as well. We had three 100-win teams - the Los Angeles Dodgers, Cleveland Indians, and Houston Astros - for just the sixth time in major league history and the first time since 2003. The 2017 MLB playoffs are here, with 10 teams providing us several storylines to watch this October, from the wild card games all the way through the World Series.
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