Tuesday, October 18, 2005

Who's It Gonna Be?

When Al Newman left the Twins, it said a lot about the team. Namely that the lack of chemistry isn't limited to the players.
All year as fans and media called for the head of hitting coach Scott Ulger, the Twins defended him, insisted it wasn't his fault, he was trying really hard, etc.
But when Newman quit, a spot on the staff opened up, and now the news is out that the Twins offered the hitting coach job to Paul Molitor.
That would mean the team planned on reassigning Ulger to 3B coach, but Molitor refused to the job.
So now what?
I will say that I'm glad Molitor turned the job down. His one season as hitting coach for the Mariners was a total failure, and if you look around, other great hitters (Rod Carew, Eddie Murray) have also been failures as hitting coaches. Sometimes great players lack the patientce or ability to relate to the young, struggling, and/or average player.
I would still like to see the team offer the job to Brian Harper.
I have no idea what Harper is doing, if he has ever coached or if he has any interest in coaching.
I just think he'd be good at it.
Knowing the Twins, though, they'll probly just promote one of their minor league coaches.
But that isn't necessarily bad.
Rick Anderson was a no-name AAA pitching coach who the Twins could've easily spurned in favor of a bigger name.
Now Anderson is the American League's version of Leo Mazzone, and fans are pissed that he didn't replace Dick Such sooner.

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