Fredi Gonzalez tops list of MLB managers at risk of being fired

We’re nearly two full weeks into the Major League Baseball season and it seems like a good time to speculate about which managers are in danger of losing their jobs. It just so happens the online sportsbook Bovada has the latest odds on this topic and there are few surprises.

Atlanta always was expected to be awful this season as the franchise has gone with a youth movement in an effort to rebuild. The Braves haven’t disappointed those who expected them to finish at or near the bottom of the National League but they are disappointing their fans with an 0-9 start, which might be a little worse than expected.

Being winless through nine games has Fredi Gonzalez as the manager most at risk of being fired sooner rather than later. He is sitting at even odds at the top of Bovada’s board at 1/1 odds of losing his job. The Braves start a three-game series Friday night at Miami.

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Many thought Colorado manager Walt Weiss might have managed his final game for the Rockies when the 2015 season ended, but the organization decided to bring him back for a fourth season. Weiss is second on Bovada’s list at 7/2 odds.

Weiss hasn’t come close to going .500 in his three previous seasons, but much of that really is attributable to a lack of talent, especially on the pitching side, than his decision-making and philosophies.

Weiss is the sixth manager in Colorado history and he always was considered somewhat of an experiment. Sure, he had 14 years of experience in the Major Leagues as a player, but he had no managerial experience in professional baseball prior to being hired after coaching his son’s high school team in suburban Denver for one season.

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The Rockies went into Friday’s game 5-4 and in third place in the NL West Division. So he’s in no immediate danger and considering the Rockies aren’t expected to contend this year, if he can coax improvement over last season’s 68-94 finish, he might be back for a fifth season in 2017.

Minnesota Twins manager Paul Molitor is third on the list at 4/1 odds of being fired, which seems somewhat dubious considering he’s only in his second season as manager and he’s a beloved figure in that city and organization. But Molitor and the Twins are in the same boat right now as Gonzalez and the Braves. They’re still looking for a win nearly two weeks into the season at 0-9.

The fourth manager on the Bovada list is somewhat surprising. Bovada gives Terry Collins 8/1 odds of being fired after he guided the New York Mets to the World Series last season with one of the best pitching staffs in baseball. However, the Mets are just 3-5 to start the season and Collins comes into the season with big expectations after last season’s results and a two-year contract extension.

New York Yankees manager Joe Girardi is at 10/1 odds of being fired, Los Angeles Angels manager Mike Scioscia is 12/1 and first-year Miami manager Don Mattingly is at 25/1.

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Kyle Ringo is a contributing writer to Big League Stew on Yahoo Sports. Have a tip? Email him at kyle.ringo@yahoo.com or follow him on Twitter! Follow @KyleRingo