Look, Davey Johnson was Manager of the Year 2012 and we were all calling for him to be fired in 2013. Matt Williams was Manager of the year 2014 and we were all calling for his head in 2015. Dusty Baker was almost Manager of the year 2016. Now it's 2017. I can understand a bit of hesitance on the part of the owners to extend him.
Regardless of whether the Lerners are being cheap or prudent (it's cheap), the team manager taking a contract dispute public is not a good thing.
