The average time of a nine-inning game was a record 3 hours, 5 minutes this season, up from 2:56 in 2015. Also Tuesday, Joe Girardi, at the meetings as part of the competition committee, commented for the first time about being let go as manager of the New York Yankees after the playoffs. Yankees general manager Brian Cashman announced his decision Oct. 26, and then explained last week he made the move because of “ability to fully engage, communicate, connect with the playing personnel.”Girardi said he wasn’t disappointed about the statements. When you take a job as a manager, you know that this is a possibility, and you have to deal with this. He will not return next year to the Yankees’ YES Network, where he worked in 2007 before he was hired to manage the team.

Source: thestar November 15, 2017 02:15 UTC