The Yankees are set to retain pitching coach Larry Rothschild, according to Joel Sherman of the New York Post. He has held the position since 2011.
New York’s field staff was thrown into flux when the team decided at the end of the year to move on from manager Joe Girardi. The process of finding his replacement is still in a fairly early stage, it seems, but that didn’t stop the organization from beginning to fill out his staff.
According to Sherman, the Yankees will also consider retaining other prior coaches. In particular, bench coach Rob Thomson is obviously a candidate to stay with the organization in some capacity, given that he has interviewed for the managerial post.
cool thx
So they want a manager who doesn’t insist on picking his own coaches?
Really?
Glad They kept this one!
great pitching coach.
Very underrated.
See: CC Sabathia, Severino’s 180 degree turn, Tanaka’s excellent peripherals stats (Highest SO/9 of his career (9.8) Highest GB% of his career (49.2%)
Jordan Montgomery was a pleasant surprise.
Overrated. Horrible coach.
He is nothing special as a coach
I agree, he should have been dumped and Joe stayed!!
If you have nothing positive to add or anything to support your opinion, please don’t comment, especially when it’s something easily debunked.
Tanaka had a 4.74 ERA, but wasn’t indicative of lost season for him.
That 4.74ERA includes 7ER game 2nd to last game. (Last game: 15K 0BB, 7 Inning Shutout.
Fip (4.34) and xFip (3.44) viewed Tanaka more favorably.
We’ll see what Rothschild does about Tanaka’s crazy HR rate 2017.
Did Rothschild have the day off during the 7ER game and return for the 15K one?
It was nice to see him rebound from that 7ER disaster, by having arguably the best game of his career (15K, 0B, 7IP Shutout) next one.
It was encouraging to see Tanaka making those adjustments. I would like to think Larry Rothschild played a role in that, since it’s his job to identify flaws, and help make the right adjustments. Rothschild isn’t a miracle worker, or the much ballyhooed Mike Maddux but he deserves credit, for the work he’s done with a Yankees Starting pitching staff, that was expected to be the weakest link of this team.
It was a meaningful game. It brought down his ERA down from almost 5, to his current 4.76 mark, great way to build momentum going into the playoffs (which he pitched excellent) and moving forward next season.
You can make a joke about it, but Rothschild was solid. If you wan’t a bigger sample size, compare Luis Severino’s 2016 season: (3-8, 5.84 ERA, 1.45 Whip, 66K, 25BB in 71IP) to his 2017 season ( 14-6, 2.98 ERA, 1.04 Whip, 230K, 51BB in 193.1IP) It is part of Rothschild job description to help identify flaws, and make pitching adjustments for pitchers.
Severino’s a young player (22 in 2016 season) and needed a lot of guidance after that disaster of 2016 season. Let’s give Rothschild credit.
We’re so quick to go on Witch-hunts to fire coaches, but rarely give credit when it’s due.
It brought down his ERA from almost 5, to his current 4.74* mark
lmao!!! omg
So Rothschild gets credit for turning Severino around but not the blame for the dramatic fall off between 2015 and 2016? Wouldn’t a top tier pitching coach be able to maintain a pitchers success just as easily as turn him around? Severino was excellent in 2015, horrible in 2016 and excellent in 2017. If you get credit for the turnaround you get blame for the downturn as well. And whose idea was it to have him go from 71 IP to 193 IP in a year.. that could come back and bite them in the butt.
The problem from 15-16 fall off was severino bilked up too much and lost flexibility on the mound. They put him on a new workout plan over the offseason and he came back a new man
riffraff you want to blame him for 2016, fine. But why would you let him go after a positive turnaround?
2 out of last 3 seasons, Severino had excellent seasons (you said it yourself) 2015 & 2017
Why would you get rid of Rothschild? If 2017 was Severino’s best season to date.
i think pedro martinez had more to do with sevy’s turnaround than rothschild did
Lets not act like theres a ton of pitchers who are consistently great. Lets also not act like there are pitching coaches with even close to a 50% success rate
xabial -Didn’t say I would get rid of him – just pointing out that you can’t just give credit for turnaround without some level of criticism for the previous years steep decline which caused the need for the turnaround. For the record I think he a good pitching coach- not great.. good. I would, however, waited to see if the new manager wanted to keep him before retaining his services
You’re leaving out the adjustment he made to Chapman’s fastball grip. Turned him around just in time.
One of the worst pitching coaches is all of baseball not just ML all of baseball period.
Lol stats would disagree
What stats. His favorite thing to tell cubs and Yankee pitchers that can’t find the strike zone. “Pitch Better”
Sounds like Zack Greinke giving Alex Gordon hitting advice:
“Gordon followed Greinke into the room and got ready to receive some advice. On the television, cued up, was the home run Greinke hit against Arizona in his fourth big league at-bat. They watched it together. And then watched it again. ‘Do more of that,’ Greinke said.”
3rd ranked era in AL in 2017 and 7 th in 16 with all the injuries
Hey Wrek, calm down. It sounds like you want the job or have some other hidden agenda item.
Baseball is a long season. I would prefer for Tanaka to have the crappy regular season era and finish strong including the post season when it REALLY MATTERS.
I’m pretty sure he’s hootin’ along the lines of ‘He and Dusty killed muh Wood and Prior!’
amen!!
And never been lower than 8th in the AL since 2011
Great move, Rothschild is a great pitching coach and the team is familiar with him. In. A perfect world Thomson, Pena, and Thames would stay on however I doubt all of them will come back. At least they’re keeping Larry
I’m wondering how often this happens!
So whoever they hire as manager will be a powerless puppet. That generally won’t work. I understand not wanting to lose out on options for coaches, but the real problem is their delay in choosing a new manager.
so…. The new manager won’t have a saying on his pitching coach either… Wonder how many games will be managed from the owner’s suite next year?
This should’ve been a no brainer
I like Rothschild and I’m happy they are keeping him, but shouldn’t the manager have a big say in who HIS staff will be? Seems like Cash is doing this a little backwards….
Don’t like making coaching decisions without the manager involved. He should pick his own guy or at least have a say in the final decision. I understand that waiting means some good talent will get scooped up by other teams. But that’s better than a manager getting someone he doesn’t get along with or see eye to eye with being forced on him.