Is Jim Riggleman The Luckiest Coach Ever?
In the annals of Seattle Mariners managerial history, Jim Riggleman will probably be forgotten.
Compiling a 36-54 win-loss record over roughly half of the 2008 season, Riggleman was a good guy in a bad situation. The de facto backup option when first-stringer John McLaren couldn’t get his ballclub on the winning track.
Riggleman was handed the keys to a broken down jalopy of a vehicle and instructed to drive it as well as he could. He lasted until season’s end, was replaced by Don Wakamatsu over the offseason, then became the bench coach for the Washington Nationals and manager Manny Acta.
Skip ahead a few months and here we are in July. Thirteen months after he vultured the managerial post in Seattle, Riggleman is doing it again, this time in DC.
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