Just days after he secured a summer job managing in Mexico, Fernando Tatis Sr. lost his job managing winter ball in his hometown.
The Estrellas Orientales announced that they had fired Tatis as manager Saturday morning, replacing him with bench coach Carlos Paulino, who will take over the club as interim manager.
Tatis, a native of San Pedro de Macoris, Dominican Republic, the town where the Estrellas are based, managed the club through the 2023-24 and 2024-25 seasons. Currently, through 31 games, the Estrellas are 13-18 and in sixth place in the LIDOM.
In a press release issued in Spanish, the Estrellas organization said that Tatis was fired “following his most recent public statements about the team, the players’ attitude, and the extent of their interest in winning matches, prominent members of the club expressed their disagreement with those statements. The displeasure of a significant number of players, regarding Tatis’s statements, has led management to believe that his leadership is currently in question.”
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According to a report from ESPN Deportes, Tatis Sr. told radio program Mañana Deportiva, Tatis Sr. described the state of winter baseball as “a joke” and stated that managers “have to be babysitters.”
“Players come in, players go out, this one got sick, that so-and-so doesn’t want to play, that he has a headache, that he has a stomach ache… In a single day you put together two or three lineups before the game. The fans don’t understand that,” Tatis told Mañana Deportiva.
Tatis managed the Estrellas to their first championship in 51 years in 2018-19, then returned to the club for the 2023-24 season.
Earlier this week, Tatis was signed to manage the Algodoneros de Union Laguna of the Liga Mexicana de Beisbol for the 2026 season.
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