Gibbons said Friday that he will allow catcher Russell Martin to manage the team in their season finale against the Tampa Bay Rays on Sunday.According to John Lott of The Athletic http://www.oriolesfanproshop.com/authentic-j.j.-hardy-jersey , Gibbons said he wants to, "Let [Martin] have fun with it."The Jays officially announced this week that Gibbons will be out as manager at the conclusion of the 2018 season.Toronto enters play Saturday with a disappointing 73-87 record, placing it fourth in the highly competitive AL East.The Blue Jays will miss the playoffs for the second consecutive season after reaching the American League Championship Series in both 2015 and 2016.Martin is set to close the worst statistical season of his career, as he is hitting just .194 with 10 home runs and 25 RBI.The 35-year-old veteran is a four-time All-Star, one-time Gold Glove award winner and one-time Silver Slugger award winner, but he is seemingly reaching the end of his career.Although the East York, Ontario, Canada, native has one year remaining on his contract with the Jays Adam Jones Jersey , he is nowhere close to living up to his $20 million salary.Over the past few years, several former players with little or no managerial experience have been hired as MLB managers, including Dave Roberts of the Los Angeles Dodgers and Craig Counsell of the Milwaukee Brewers.Sunday will mark Martin's first taste of managing, and if things go well, it isn't a stretch to think he could be managing on a full-time basis at the big-league level in the near future.If Martin retires at the end of the 2018 season, he may even establish himself as a candidate to take over for Gibbons in Toronto. BOSTON (AP) — David Price flopped again in the postseason. And against the Yankees.Price lasted just 1 2/3 innings in Boston’s 6-2 AL Division Series loss on Saturday night, giving up three runs and three hits, including home runs to Aaron Judge and Gary Sanchez that cleared the Green Monster.He dropped to 0-9 in 10 postseason starts. Price’s postseason ERA rose to 5.38, including 6.03 as a starter Manny Machado Jersey , as New York evened the best-of-five series 1-1.Price trudged off the field to a chorus of boos from the Red Sox fans who had cheered him when he took the mound just an inning prior.“It’s tough,” Price said after the shortest of his 10 postseason starts . “To go out there and have that opportunity to go up 2-0, and to throw the baseball the way I did, it was definitely tough.”Of 70 pitchers with at least 10 career postseason starts, only Price doesn’t have a victory. He didn’t take the quick hook personally.“It’s the playoffs,” he said. “You see it happen all the time, especially over the past couple of years. Managers go to the bullpen extremely early. If I don’t like it, I need to pitch better. Period.”Price has linked his confidence in moving the ball around the strike zone to his success late in the regular season. He said he made a turning after an 11-1 loss at New York on July 1, when he gave up five home runs. He closed the regular season by winning seven of his last eight decisions.But he reverted to old habits on Saturday night.Sanchez’s home run made him 7 for 14 with six long balls against Price Chris Davis Jersey , who has now allowed 11 homers in 17 1/3 innings against the Yankees in five starts this year.Bad outing or not, Red Sox manager Alex Cora said he still has confidence in using Price again. While Price remains a starter, he only threw 42 pitches on Saturday and Cora hasn’t ruled out using Price in relief if needed.“Just a bad outing today,” Cora said. “It just so happened it wasn’t his day. He didn’t make pitches. We trust him. He bounced back before. We’ll talk to him and make a few adjustments and we’ll go from there.”Whatever happens during the rest of this postseason, it could factor into Price’s future in a Red Sox jersey.In the third season of a $217 million, seven-year contract, Price has never seemed completely comfortable in front of Fenway Park’s demanding fans. He has the right to void the remainder of his contract after the World Series and become a free agent again, forfeiting $127 million in guaranteed money.When asked on Thursday if getting his first victory might endear him the Boston’s fans, Price insisted it wasn’t something he dwelled on.“If I lose the entire playoffs and we win a World Series http://www.oriolesfanproshop.com/authentic-j.j.-hardy-jersey , I’ll take that. That’s what I’m here for,” Price said. “I don’t want this to be about me and me not winning.”Whether he likes it or not, it will continue to be.But he says his goals remain the same.“I just want to win,” Price said Saturday. “That’s it. My main goal is to win in the playoffs, to win a World Series. Whatever I have to do to help us do that, I’m fine with. I said it last year and I’ll say it again, I want to win. … But I know I’m more than capable of winning games as a starter in October. That’s what I’m looking forward to doing.”