Casey Stengel
In 1960, the Yankees had a manager in his sixties. He had been an unsuccessful manager earlier in his career with other teams, but he was tremendously successful with the Yankees, winning ten pennants in twelve years, and seven World Championships. His team had lost, unexpectedly, in the World Series, despite winning three games by scores of 16-3, 12-0 and 10-0. He was criticized for under- and mis-using his star pitcher, who had pitched the two shut-outs in the Series, but had goneonly 12-9 during the year, pitching, according to the critics, not often enough and not deep enough into the game.
And he was fired. The star pitcher went 25-4, 17-8, 24-7 and 17-6 the nexty four years, all pennant winning years under different managers.
I'd say the odds are against Torre being fired, but it's not out of the realm of possibilities. Another possibility is that he may resign, win or lose.
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