Which MLB Manager Will Be Fired First? Four Managers on the Hot Seat Already | Deadspin.com Sep 23, 2025; Chicago, Illinois, USA; New York Mets manager Carlos Mendoza (64) on the field before a game against the Chicago Cubs at Wrigley Field. Mandatory Credit: David Banks-Imagn Images No matter what outsiders think of the urgency, Major League Baseball teams usually wait longer than the third week of April before they start firing managers.Although, Phil Garner and Cal Ripken Sr. would like a word. The Detroit Tigers fired Garner (and general manager Randy Smith) after an 0-6 start in 2002. The Baltimore Orioles fired Cal Ripken’s dad after starting 0-6 in 1988. Cal Sr. got a twisted bit of satisfaction when the ’88 Orioles infamously continued losing until they were 0-21.Multiple teams with high expectations have gotten off to slow starts this season. If a front office believes the manager is in over their head, they will remove one head for another.Here are four MLB managers who could be feeling hot under the collar soon, if they’re not already.Carlos Mendoza, New York MetsMendoza’s Mets won 89 games and reached the NLCS in 2024 before the Dodgers took them out, but after adding Juan Soto in free agency they finished 83-79 and missed the playoffs in ’25. Currently, they’re 7-16 after losing their 12th straight game, blowing a three-run lead against the Twins on Tuesday night.How much of it is actually Mendoza’s fault? Criticisms of Mendoza had been vague — at least until he decided to pitch to Nico Hoerner of the Cubs on Sunday when the Mets seemed to have better options. Odds there favored the Cubs no matter what, but the manager isn’t supposed to make things worse.The Mets likely will play better, especially if the offense comes together as projected, but they’re going to expend a ton of energy just to get back to .500.Coaches Kai Correa and Andy Green wait in the wings. Correa is a top managing prospect and Green has experience with the Padres.Rob Thomson, Philadelphia Phillies Philly won the NL Pennant in 2022 after firing manager Joe Girardi in June and replacing him with Thomson. They also won at least 90 games in each of the next three seasons, including 96 a season ago when they fell to the Dodgers in the NLDS.The core of those winning teams remains, but all fans see is a group of underachievers whose seasons ended in disappointment, with Thomson unable to get Dave Dombrowski’s roster across the finish line. The Phillies are 8-15, having lost eight straight.Don Mattingly, a former MLB manager, is on Thomson’s staff.Matt Quatraro, Kansas City RoyalsQuatraro led them to the playoffs two seasons ago, so his success is recent. His perceived shortcomings are like those of Thomson — he’s not fiery enough, and sometimes the players appear unmotivated. But that’s what it looks like when you don’t score runs. They needed a walk-off wild pitch to snap an eight-game losing streak Tuesday night, which also was their first one-run victory in six attempts. Someone in the clubhouse needs to light a fire.Tony Vitello, San Francisco Giants Mar 27, 2026; San Francisco, California, USA; San Francisco Giants manager Tony Vitello (23) talks with catcher Patrick Bailey (center right) during the eighth inning against the New York Yankees at Oracle Park. Mandatory Credit: Darren Yamashita-Imagn Images Vitello just got here from college, and sometimes it really seems like it by the way he talks and behaves. After beating the Dodgers on Tuesday night, the Giants are 10-13, which isn’t terrible. Just based on talent, it looks like they’ll be closer to the bottom of the NL West than the top, but that’s not on the manager.Most figured there would be an adjustment period for Buster Posey’s out-of-the-box hire, but if Vitello still looks overwhelmed in the coming weeks, why torture everyone?Joe Espada, Houston AstrosThey’ve been in decline every season, a little bit, ever since winning the World Series in 2022: ALCS in ’23 (Dusty Baker’s last season), Wild Card under Espada in ’24 after a slow start, second place and out of the playoffs in ’25. So far this season, they’re 9-16 amid a ton of injuries that are not Espada’s fault. But when organizations get desperate, they play the one card they have left. #MLB #Manager #Fired #Managers #Hot #Seat #Deadspin.com

Deadspin | LPGA stars get another shot at major title at Chevron Nov 13, 2025; Belleair, Florida, USA; Nelly Korda hits a shot on the ninth hole during the first round of The ANNIKA golf tournament at Pelican Golf Club. Mandatory Credit: Nathan Ray Seebeck-Imagn Images The top five players in the women’s golf world rankings have something in common. All five have won at least one tournament since the 2026 season began, whether on the LPGA Tour or elsewhere. Actually, that quintet of Jeeno Thitikul, Nelly Korda, Hyo-joo Kim, Charley Hull and Hannah Green shares another attribute: They’ve collected zero of the sport’s last nine major championships. As major season kicks off at the Chevron Championship on Thursday in Houston, the world of women’s golf waits to see if one of its star players can reassert her dominance under the brightest lights the sport has to offer. Four of the five major winners in 2025 were first-time champions, including Mao Saigo of Japan, who birdied the first hole of an unprecedented five-way playoff (featuring Kim, among others) to win the Chevron. That was the event’s final year at the widely-panned Club at Carlton Woods in the Houston suburbs. Formerly played in the Coachella Valley and known as the Dinah Shore, Kraft Nabisco Championship and other titles, the Chevron will make a new home at Memorial Park Golf Course. The municipal course near downtown Houston is the current home of the PGA Tour’s Houston Open, renovated less than 10 years ago with consulting from Brooks Koepka. It will play as a par-72, 6,811-yard course for the ladies this week. “It’s definitely a second-shot golf course,” Korda said. “Greens are pretty tricked out. Just depends on how it’s going to play with all the rain that they got. It can play really long where (drives are) not going to go run out or play really soft.” Korda is the most recent major winner of the world’s top five, having taken the Chevron crown in 2024. But in nine major starts since, she has mixed two T2s with two missed cuts and an array of also-ran finishes. She began 2026 with a win at the season-opening Tournament of Champions, weather-shortened from 72 to 54 holes. World No. 1Thitikul won the next event in her native Thailand. Though only 23, Thitikul has been gunning for her first major for close to five years, collecting nine top-10s without a victory. “I think it’s a good thing,” Thitikul said. “If you in contention, if you without a win as well but you in contention for like maybe four, five week in a row, which mean your game is there. … “If you were in contention every week, you saw your name on the top in every week, which mean your game is there and then just matter of time.” England’s Hull has yet to capture a major, while Kim, a South Korean veteran who won back-to-back tournaments in March, hasn’t added to her major mantle since the 2014 Evian. Green will be a popular pick this week as the Australian rides white-hot form into Houston. She’s won four tournaments since March 1, including a two-week sweep of the Women’s Australian Open and Australian WPGA Championship. On Sunday outside Los Angeles, Green putted her way into a playoff and then won her third LA Championship. She said Tuesday that she plans to “ride this wave for as long as possible.” “My putter has been very kind to me, so it’s nice to feel like all aspects of my game have actually been able to turn on at the same time, as to where last year I felt like one thing would go well and something would be really off,” Green said. “That’s probably been the biggest difference, but obviously the inner belief has definitely been different, too.” Green’s lone major title came when she won the 2019 Women’s PGA Championship. –Field Level Media #Deadspin #LPGA #stars #shot #major #title #Chevron

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Nov 13, 2025; Belleair, Florida, USA; Nelly Korda hits a shot on the ninth hole during the first round of The ANNIKA golf tournament at Pelican Golf Club. Mandatory Credit: Nathan Ray Seebeck-Imagn Images

The top five players in the women’s golf world rankings have something in common. All five have won at least one tournament since the 2026 season began, whether on the LPGA Tour or elsewhere.

Actually, that quintet of Jeeno Thitikul, Nelly Korda, Hyo-joo Kim, Charley Hull and Hannah Green shares another attribute: They’ve collected zero of the sport’s last nine major championships.

As major season kicks off at the Chevron Championship on Thursday in Houston, the world of women’s golf waits to see if one of its star players can reassert her dominance under the brightest lights the sport has to offer.

Four of the five major winners in 2025 were first-time champions, including Mao Saigo of Japan, who birdied the first hole of an unprecedented five-way playoff (featuring Kim, among others) to win the Chevron.

That was the event’s final year at the widely-panned Club at Carlton Woods in the Houston suburbs. Formerly played in the Coachella Valley and known as the Dinah Shore, Kraft Nabisco Championship and other titles, the Chevron will make a new home at Memorial Park Golf Course.

The municipal course near downtown Houston is the current home of the PGA Tour’s Houston Open, renovated less than 10 years ago with consulting from Brooks Koepka. It will play as a par-72, 6,811-yard course for the ladies this week.

“It’s definitely a second-shot golf course,” Korda said. “Greens are pretty tricked out. Just depends on how it’s going to play with all the rain that they got. It can play really long where (drives are) not going to go run out or play really soft.”

Korda is the most recent major winner of the world’s top five, having taken the Chevron crown in 2024. But in nine major starts since, she has mixed two T2s with two missed cuts and an array of also-ran finishes.

She began 2026 with a win at the season-opening Tournament of Champions, weather-shortened from 72 to 54 holes. World No. 1Thitikul won the next event in her native Thailand.

Though only 23, Thitikul has been gunning for her first major for close to five years, collecting nine top-10s without a victory.

“I think it’s a good thing,” Thitikul said. “If you in contention, if you without a win as well but you in contention for like maybe four, five week in a row, which mean your game is there. …

“If you were in contention every week, you saw your name on the top in every week, which mean your game is there and then just matter of time.”

England’s Hull has yet to capture a major, while Kim, a South Korean veteran who won back-to-back tournaments in March, hasn’t added to her major mantle since the 2014 Evian.

Green will be a popular pick this week as the Australian rides white-hot form into Houston. She’s won four tournaments since March 1, including a two-week sweep of the Women’s Australian Open and Australian WPGA Championship. On Sunday outside Los Angeles, Green putted her way into a playoff and then won her third LA Championship.

She said Tuesday that she plans to “ride this wave for as long as possible.”

“My putter has been very kind to me, so it’s nice to feel like all aspects of my game have actually been able to turn on at the same time, as to where last year I felt like one thing would go well and something would be really off,” Green said.

“That’s probably been the biggest difference, but obviously the inner belief has definitely been different, too.”

Green’s lone major title came when she won the 2019 Women’s PGA Championship.

–Field Level Media

#Deadspin #LPGA #stars #shot #major #title #Chevron">Deadspin | LPGA stars get another shot at major title at Chevron

Nov 13, 2025; Belleair, Florida, USA; Nelly Korda hits a shot on the ninth hole during the first round of The ANNIKA golf tournament at Pelican Golf Club. Mandatory Credit: Nathan Ray Seebeck-Imagn Images

The top five players in the women’s golf world rankings have something in common. All five have won at least one tournament since the 2026 season began, whether on the LPGA Tour or elsewhere.

Actually, that quintet of Jeeno Thitikul, Nelly Korda, Hyo-joo Kim, Charley Hull and Hannah Green shares another attribute: They’ve collected zero of the sport’s last nine major championships.

As major season kicks off at the Chevron Championship on Thursday in Houston, the world of women’s golf waits to see if one of its star players can reassert her dominance under the brightest lights the sport has to offer.

Four of the five major winners in 2025 were first-time champions, including Mao Saigo of Japan, who birdied the first hole of an unprecedented five-way playoff (featuring Kim, among others) to win the Chevron.

That was the event’s final year at the widely-panned Club at Carlton Woods in the Houston suburbs. Formerly played in the Coachella Valley and known as the Dinah Shore, Kraft Nabisco Championship and other titles, the Chevron will make a new home at Memorial Park Golf Course.

The municipal course near downtown Houston is the current home of the PGA Tour’s Houston Open, renovated less than 10 years ago with consulting from Brooks Koepka. It will play as a par-72, 6,811-yard course for the ladies this week.

“It’s definitely a second-shot golf course,” Korda said. “Greens are pretty tricked out. Just depends on how it’s going to play with all the rain that they got. It can play really long where (drives are) not going to go run out or play really soft.”

Korda is the most recent major winner of the world’s top five, having taken the Chevron crown in 2024. But in nine major starts since, she has mixed two T2s with two missed cuts and an array of also-ran finishes.

She began 2026 with a win at the season-opening Tournament of Champions, weather-shortened from 72 to 54 holes. World No. 1Thitikul won the next event in her native Thailand.

Though only 23, Thitikul has been gunning for her first major for close to five years, collecting nine top-10s without a victory.

“I think it’s a good thing,” Thitikul said. “If you in contention, if you without a win as well but you in contention for like maybe four, five week in a row, which mean your game is there. …

“If you were in contention every week, you saw your name on the top in every week, which mean your game is there and then just matter of time.”

England’s Hull has yet to capture a major, while Kim, a South Korean veteran who won back-to-back tournaments in March, hasn’t added to her major mantle since the 2014 Evian.

Green will be a popular pick this week as the Australian rides white-hot form into Houston. She’s won four tournaments since March 1, including a two-week sweep of the Women’s Australian Open and Australian WPGA Championship. On Sunday outside Los Angeles, Green putted her way into a playoff and then won her third LA Championship.

She said Tuesday that she plans to “ride this wave for as long as possible.”

“My putter has been very kind to me, so it’s nice to feel like all aspects of my game have actually been able to turn on at the same time, as to where last year I felt like one thing would go well and something would be really off,” Green said.

“That’s probably been the biggest difference, but obviously the inner belief has definitely been different, too.”

Green’s lone major title came when she won the 2019 Women’s PGA Championship.

–Field Level Media

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