The Reds Are Moving Slowly

It's pretty much common courtesy in baseball to make personnel decisions pretty early on into the off-season. If a team is going to fire someone, it happens fast (see: Jim Tracy). Teams do things that way because jobs are filled just as quickly as they're opened and it's pretty rude to hold on to someone until they can't get another job. Meanwhile the Reds haven't made any movement towards filling their managerial position and it's leaving interim manager Pete Mackanin in an awkward situation:

"I haven't heard a thing," Mackanin said Friday from his home in Bradenton, Fla. "I'm twisting in the wind."

Mackanin is hoping to go from Reds interim manager to permanent manager. He met briefly with general manager Wayne Krivsky after the final game Sunday.

"He told me he wanted to get done with (the managerial search) as soon as possible," Mackanin said.

As the Enquirer points out, this is a particularly bad spot for Mackanin to be in because I'm sure he'd love to keep his Reds' job, but if he can't, I'm sure he'd love to try and get a job somewhere else (like Pittsburgh). Still, he's kind of tied to the Reds' job until they make a movement either way.