The Rockies managerial candidates include … Jason Giambi?

Jim Tracy resigned and the Rockies are trying to figure out who might replace him. Troy Renck names some names:

The Rockies determining whether will stay in-house or look at external managerial candidates.In-house: Runnells, Cole, maybe Giambi

— Troy Renck (@TroyRenck) October 9, 2012

Outside candidates surely to come up if Rox look that way: Tim Wallach, Sandy Alomar Jr., Brad Ausmus, among others

— Troy Renck (@TroyRenck) October 9, 2012

As for the outside candidates, one would figure that Alomar would wait to see if he’s asked to stay on in Cleveland and Ausmus might want to wait to see if the Red Sox want him.

The internals: Giambi? That would be unexpected. I know that he has, in his post Yankees life, transformed into a good organizational guy and a mentor, but I don’t recall anyone ever talking about him like he’s managerial material. Could be fun. And not just because it would make anti-PED people’s heads explode.

MLB.com’s Mark Feinsand reports that, while there is no official word yet, Hyun-Jin Ryu will “most likely” accept the Dodgers’ one-year, $17.9 million qualifying offer.

Ryu posted a 1.97 ERA in to 82.1 regular-season innings, with his season shortened due to recovery from injury. He was pretty darn good in the postseason too, though his ERA was inflated somewhat thanks to Ryan Madson allowing his inherited runners to score like it was his job or something. Either way: given his durability issues over the past few seasons, it’s not at all clear that there was a massive multi-year deal in the offing for the soon-to-be-32-year-old pitcher, so accepting the qualifying offer is probably a pretty good move for him.

All players who received a qualifying offer have until 5PM today to make a decision on them. Others, besides Ryu, who got them: Yasmani Grandal, Patrick Corbin, Bryce Harper, Dallas Keuchel, Craig Kimbrel, and A.J. Pollock.

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