The Seattle Mariners have fired manager Don Wakamatsu. The first-time big league manager was dismissed, along with bench coach Ty Van Burkleo, pitching coach Rick Adair and Steve Hecht, the team’s performance coach.
Daren Brown, who has managed Triple-A Tacoma for the past four years, was named interim manager, and he will call the shots beginning with Monday night’s game against the Athletics at Safeco Field.
Seattle entered the day 42-70, the second-worst record in the American League. The Mariners began the season with expectations of their first postseason in nine years, following a winning 2009 in Wakamatsu’s first season.
But a poorly constructed roster has produced the worst offense in baseball and doomed them to 22½ games behind first-place Texas in the AL West.
