Friday that he will allow catcher Russell Martin to manage the team in their season finale against the Tampa Bay Rays on Sunday.According to John Lott of The Athletic Tony Perez Jersey , Gibbons said he wants to, "Let [Martin] have fun with it."The Jays officially announced this week that Gibbons will be out as manager at the conclusion of the 2018 season.Toronto enters play Saturday with a disappointing 73-87 record, placing it fourth in the highly competitive AL East.The Blue Jays will miss the playoffs for the second consecutive season after reaching the American League Championship Series in both 2015 and 2016.Martin is set to close the worst statistical season of his career, as he is hitting just .194 with 10 home runs and 25 RBI.The 35-year-old veteran is a four-time All-Star, one-time Gold Glove award winner and one-time Silver Slugger award winner, but he is seemingly reaching the end of his career.Although the East York http://www.redsfanproshop.com/authentic-homer-bailey-jersey , Ontario, Canada, native has one year remaining on his contract with the Jays, he is nowhere close to living up to his $20 million salary.Over the past few years, several former players with little or no managerial experience have been hired as MLB managers, including Dave Roberts of the Los Angeles Dodgers and Craig Counsell of the Milwaukee Brewers.Sunday will mark Martin's first taste of managing Barry Larkin Jersey , and if things go well, it isn't a stretch to think he could be managing on a full-time basis at the big-league level in the near future.If Martin retires at the end of the 2018 season, he may even establish himself as a candidate to take over for Gibbons in Toronto. SAN DIEGO (AP) — The San Diego Padres have promoted yet another prospect from the minor leagues, and this time it’s the best one yet.The Padres selected the contract of 21-year-old Luis Urias, one of baseball’s top prospects who is expected to be their second baseman of the future.Urias was set to bat second against Felix Hernandez in his big league debut in the opener of a two-game series against the Seattle Mariners on Tuesday night.Urias’ promotion comes as the rebuilding Padres are on pace to lose 100 games for the first time since their infamous Fire Sale season of 1993.The Padres brought up Urias even though Triple-A El Paso has qualified for the Pacific Coast League playoffs.“We felt like he’d done enough in the month of August,” manager Andy Green said. “He played really http://www.redsfanproshop.com/authentic-chris-sabo-jersey , really well. He was kind of challenged at the beginning of the month to kind of step up his game because there was the belief he had more inside of him and he did a great job. He’s a guy we’ve been talking about all year that the time would come, and when would the time be, and we got to the point where felt the time was now. It gives him the opportunity to play over a month in the big leagues the rest of the year.”The arrival of Urias marks the beginning of another wave of talent coming from the prospect-rich farm system to the big league squad, which at 50-83 has the worst record in the NL.He hit .296 with a .398 on-base percentage with Triple-A El Paso. He hit eight homers and drove in 45 runs, with 67 walks and 109 strikeouts.Urias signed with the Padres as an international free agent in December 2013 when he was 16.His first call after the promotion was to his parents in Mexico.“I always thought it would be a great feeling. It was something that I cannot explain right now,” Urias said. “I was so happy Billy Hamilton Jersey , especially when I called my dad and my mom. That was a feeling that I will never forget.”The Padres have one of worst offenses in the majors. Green knows bringing in one guy won’t radically change the production.“He’s a guy we believe in,” Green said. “We love his on-base skills. It’s a good spot in the lineup. Just in general we’ve struggled to get on base, and he’s always done that very well. Whether he starts off doing that well in the big leagues or it takes a little while, we believe he’s going to do that very well for a long time.”“I’m the player that I can get on base,” Urias said. “I think that’s my type of play, to put the ball in play and score a couple of runs.”Green said Urias will also play some at shortstop.
