- The Mets were considering Dodgers first base coach Clayton McCullough for bench coach after he impressed in his managerial interview with New York, but a hiring doesn’t seem likely to come to fruition. Jon Heyman of the MLB Network tweets that New York brass doesn’t believe McCullough would leave Los Angeles for a coaching position elsewhere. Instead, it seems he’s lined up to return for a second season on Dave Roberts’ staff. Deesha Thosar of the New York Daily News reported yesterday that the Mets were looking into a potential “headline-grabbing hire” for bench coach.
- The Mets already made a notable coaching move this morning, tabbing longtime big league third baseman Eric Chávez as hitting coach. Chávez had accepted a position as one of two Yankees assistant hitting coaches just a few weeks ago, leaving the Bronx club with an unanticipated vacancy on staff. Lindsey Adler of the Athletic reports (on Twitter) that the Yankees do plan to replace Chávez this offseason. That aligns with general manager Brian Cashman’s stated wish to enter the season with three hitting instructors on staff. Dillon Lawson is slated to be the team’s lead hitting coach, with Casey Dykes lined up for an assistant role.
- Though the club has confirmed that Ray Montgomery will make the unusual transition from front office to bench coach on Joe Maddon’s staff, the Angels have not yet announced assignments for either former bench coach Mike Gallego (who will remain on the staff) or newcomers Phil Nevin, Benji Gil, and Bill Haselman (per Jeff Fletcher of the Orange County Register). This may be due to the club’s pursuit of Adam Eaton for its staff should he choose to retire — which, given that he remains an active member of the MLBPA, cannot be completed during the lockout.
- The Mets announced their full slate of minor league coaches Thursday, including new managers at all four affiliates: former Cubs farmhand Kevin Boles at Triple-A Syracuse; journeyman infielder Reid Brignac at Double-A Binghamton; former Expos, Red Sox, and (briefly) Mets shortstop Luis Rivera at High-A Brooklyn; and former Mets catching instructor Robbie Robinson at Low-A St. Lucie. A full list of Mets minor league coaches, compiled by SNY contributor Jacob Resnick, can be found here.
- The Reds have hired sixteen-year big-league veteran Juan Samuel as a minor league hitting instructor, per Jon Heyman of MLB Network, though his precise role has not yet been announced. Since retiring, the three-time All-Star has held a number of positions, including as a major league base coach and, briefly, as interim manager of the Orioles following the 2010 mid-season firing of Dave Trembley. In addition to his long and productive playing career, Samuel is remembered as the Mets’ return in the 1989 deal that sent Lenny Dykstra and Roger McDowell, cornerstones of the 1986 World Series champs, to the Phillies.
- The Rangers announced two members of their 2022 big-league coaching staff, including the promotion of former journeyman catcher, advanced scout, and so-called “coordinator of run prevention” Brett Hayes to bullpen coach and the hiring of former Jays farmhand and Dodgers minor league hitting instructor Seth Conner as assistant hitting coach. Both will join Chris Woodward’s staff for a season the Rangers hope will represent a major step forward in the rebuilding process following the club’s recent big-ticket signings of Corey Seager, Marcus Semien, and Jon Gray.
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Great to see Juan land another gig
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To clear the air: Mets were considering Eric Chavez to become their bench coach before deciding he’s a better fit as hitting coach, per sources. The team now intends to name a younger, analytics-driven individual as its bench coach.
MLB is following the other professional team sports in adding more and more coaches. It’s all about maximizing each player’s production. “Whatever Works” seems to be at play.
Which brings me to the comments on this board as to why the players should be getting most of the revenue. The fact is that all these coaches are making good salaries as well as paid benefits for them and their families. Each one is given multiple computerized devices (with expensive personnel to set-them up and keep them running); access to data and video that’s accumulated at a large cost; and are being flown around the country and world (and they’re not exactly staying at Motel 6’s).
Someone recently stated that the average MLB franchise has fixed costs of $150m going into the season (not counting taxes of course). I think that’s probably a bit low. The explosion in both personnel and technology not just in the coaching, but in scouting, development throughout the minors, endless lawyers and financial people, back office employees, service support employees, etc. is mind boggling to me. I remember Dave Dombrowski noting last year that when he got his first GM job he had under 50 employees, and today he has almost 300.
As in all businesses – employees need to be more skilled each year. I’ve worked out with many college trained instructors. The advances the past 15-20 years in physical science areas are unbelievable. Which is why I’m baffled at the increased injuries that seem to be going up at ever-increasing rates in all professional team sports.
Perhaps the “advances” aren’t what they seem to be. Promotion and marketing rarely reflects results. Regarding the increase in personnel; that’s typical for all bureaucratically-structured organizations, both public and private. Once the structure is in place, the system feeds off itself and has growth as the priority over results, which can always be redefined to fit, so as to focus on outcomes. There are people lurking out there who actually believe that sports organizations should consider socio-economic justice parameters when fielding a team, as well as the implementation and enforcement bureaucracy that’s already a part of other business organizations, so their logic (such as it is): why not sports organizations as well?
Juan?
Can’t wait to see the liberal bias the NYT will add to The Athletic.
Yawn
let’s hope they don’t get as bad as ESPN
Can’t wait to see people panic over something that hasn’t happened yet.
@Joe- While I hate bringing politics into here I find this gripe to have some actual real world bones to it
The Athletic is a quality publication, id say one of the best out there right now for avid sports fans (willing to pay ofc)
Fangrapher’s from the old days know all too well how a big change at the top can affect the quality of work presented; and in some cases make them downright unreadable. I hope they don’t endure the same fate as a big fan of The Athletic currently.
You may be right Cap but I’ll reserve judgment until then. And if politics of any kind starts creeping in, I’ll cancel my subscription. Until then it’s just wasted energy worrying over it.
Well, now you’ve done it; it’s just a matter of time until the administrator shuts down the comments for this article. Can’t tolerate such radical notions as free expression.
oh no think of the horror to bradthebluefish. the humanity
I was surprised to read the Athletic had about one million subscribers. I didn’t realize they were that popular. I have heard very good things about their publication, so hopefully they remain an independent entity in content, although almost everything I see from writer, Jim Bowden, seems pretty far off the mark, imo.
Jim Bowden,speaking as a Reds fan, has always seemed to have a high opinion of himself.
Solid win for both the Athletic and the Times. Say, couldn’t the Angels accomplish it’s goals of bringing up Eaton by simply signing him to a Minor lg deal, and then onboarding him? Asking for a friend
Nope. He is still considered an active player in the MLBPA. Meaning no team is allowed to even contact him during the lockout unless he chooses to announce his retirement. Otherwise a team would just sign Correa to a 12-year “minor league” deal. If owners want a lockout, all contact has to stop with players actively represented by the union in negotiations.
Players that are under a certain service time threshold and not on a teams 40-man roster at the end of the season (even if they have had some big league experience) are eligible because they are not considered active members of the union.
Are there any maximums set for total number of coaches a team can employ? I know each team can only have a maximum number of players /coaches/trainers, etc. in the dugout per game but I’ve never heard of any maximum number of coaches a team can employ. It seems like some teams have well over 10 total coaches which is crazy for a team that only carries 26 players. I guess it’s not as bad as the NBA (coach to player ratio), but it is starting to get ridiculous. The Yankees want 3 hitting coaches for their major league team alone? They all have to be meticulously aligned or they are going to confuse batters more than they help them. Coach 1: “Keep your left foot aligned with your back foot”. Coach 2: “Open your stance a little bit at the plate.” Coach 3: “Close up your stance a little bit at the plate.”
Obviously this example would never happen but I could see one coach giving a tip to a batter that conflicts with what another coach had previously told the player.
I believe the Giants had 13 coaches last season, which is probably a record. I don’t think there’s any prohibition on the number of coaches, other than what you already mentioned about the number of coaches in uniform for games. The Angels have carried three hitting coaches for a number of seasons now, although they designate them as Hitting Coach, Assistant Hitting Coach, and Hitting Instructor.
Why would it matter how many coach’s they have, good the coach’s getting to be apart of a mlb organization n possibly getting a opportunity to move up in that organization or a different one
This nonsense about the Mets “stealing “ Chavez from the Yankees is completely dumb. Yanks gave him permission to interview & he got the job. Mets didn’t break into his room at the Yankee dormitory and chloroform him and brainwash him into siding with the enemy. Non story.
Cohen waived some bills and Hal said yup, he’s yours.
Eaton coaching on the Angels staff (at MLB level) is a head scratcher to me. Wouldn’t it be wiser to assign him to a coaching role in the minors first to see what he brings to the table and how he works with players? Just seems like an experiment for a team that needs definite answers right now.
Here we go—I suppose you’re a stinking like sht Trumpite?
Why would the Dodger first base coach be a headline grabber? Who needs him, who wants him? Mets want to grab headlines? Edgardo.
Everyone’s approach is different and no 2 batters are the same.Batting coach is the hardest worker in the dugout next to the trainer.Heck imo you can never have enough opinions and ideas as long as you run them by the mgr first.It’s mgr job to organize his team and coaches.Guys bring in their own pitchers to work on their hitting.Hitting coach is endless work
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