BREAKING NEWS: Royals Fire Hillman, Hire Yost...

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***BREAKING NEWS***

We have our first fired manager of the 2010 Baseball season. According to Yahoo Sports Baseball writer Jeff Passan's Twitter feed, the Kansas City Royals who won their game this afternoon against the Cleveland Indians, the team decided to part ways with Manager Trey Hillman.

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Hillman, who has been with the team for a little over two seasons, winning less than half of his games, his record 151-207. He apparently will be replaced by former Milwaukee Brewer Manager Ned Yost, who will be reunited with Royals GM Dayton Moore, they worked together with the Atlanta Braves back several years ago.

Al Wallace has the details from inside his newsroom...
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Brewers Fire Ned Yost

With the Milwaukee Brewers mired in a late season slump seriously hurting their chances to make the post season for the first time since 1982, the team decided to fire manager Ned Yost.

3rd base coach Dale Sveum takes over as interim manager for the remainder of the season.

"This was a very difficult move to make, and we appreciate all of the work that Ned has done to develop this team into a contender," general manager Doug Melvin said. "In the end, this was a collaborative decision made to put our club in the best position for the final two weeks of the season." quoting the Associated Press

You may recall the Brewers held the N.L. Central lead for most of last season before collasping in September and missing the playoffs. Milwaukee shares the N.L. wild card lead with Philadelphia despite losing 11 fo their last 14.

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