The Buck Gets Canned Here

Buck Showalter has, somewhat surprisingly, been fired as Texas Rangers manager. His team never got past third place under his tenure, but you never looked at Texas and thought, "now there's a team that's underachieving. The manager's got to go."

Then again, the last two times Buck has been fired, the team won the World Series the next year. Maybe the Cubs should hire him, then fire him just to test the limits of that little hex.

Other managers that are gone since we last checked in on Monday, albeit less surprisingly: Florida's Joe Girardi (already replaced by Braves 3rd base coach Fredi Gonzalez, who was also rumored to be a Cubs and Nationals target) and Washington's Frank Robinson (who we thought was dead already. Ok, not really).