Royals Fire Manager Mike Matheny After Three Seasons

Following Wednesday’s season finale, the Royals announced that manager Mike Matheny would not be returning for the 2023 season. Pitching Cal Eldred will also not come back next year.

The news comes after the team fired longtime president of baseball operations Dayton Moore last month.

Matheny took over as the Royals manager before the 2020 season. The team finished with a losing record in all three years with him at the helm, including a 65-97 record this season, which was the second worst in the American League.

Kansas City’s back-to-back trips to the World Series in 2014 and 2015—which culminated in a championship in the team’s second trip—represent the franchise’s only two postseason…