And no, I dont personally know or wish ill against Espada. He just does not seem be manager material. To be a manager you kind of have to be an a**hole. Espada seems like a nice guy but that isn't how you manage egos. Bochy for sure as hell is one. (a**hole). Dusty had his moments too. Ron Washington was an a**hole on cocaine lmao.
You don't act like it. You seem like a fan that would be absolutely thrilled if we lost 100 games this year.
Oh I blame Crane as well. I have been shouting about needing SP or someone to eat innings for a while. I just don't believe the Astros are 4-11 just because of that. For example, there was no need to burn Hader tonight. The Astros have seemed disinterested at times each season. This seems different. I do want them to win, I just don't see the logic in hiring a first time manager, one who has no experience at the MLB level for a veteran team. Not sure when that has really worked out. Nor was I high on Espada once I saw teams were not jumping at the bit to interview him.
When it comes to the position coaches, though I was not here at the time, I have wanted Alex Cintron gone since 2019.
I don't want him fired. I just jumped in the conversation out of boredom. I would guess the lack of hitting would be what @IBTL was referring to. From my perspective I've never heard a person even mention him outside of this board.
Gotcha. It's hard for outsiders to actually know what a hitting coach does. Walt Hrinak was a great hitting coach guru, Charlie Lau, and they both sucked-ass as MLB hitters. Read the whole thing: “I had no idea,” he says. “But I see the news and see all the changes. I’m thankful for every day, let’s put it that way.” [Kevin] Seitzer wasn’t aware of this until now, but going into his ninth season as the hitting coach for the Atlanta Braves, he has the curious distinction of being in his current position longer than any other hitting coach in Major League Baseball. The job he occupies — part coach, part therapist, part scientist — has quickly become the most unsteady occupation in a world where people take jobs knowing they will eventually be fired. “It’s the most volatile job in baseball,” Tigers manager A.J. Hinch said this offseason. Indeed, the MLB hitting coach has become a fragile title — 17 teams changed hitting coaches between the 2021 and 2022 seasons. This coming season, 10 coaches will enter their first year with new teams. The average length of tenure for active MLB hitting coaches is about 2.4 years. Those figures lead to a layered series of questions. Why are there so many new hitting coaches? Why are these jobs so hard to keep? “Why there’s so much turnover is because one of the easiest things to do is just to blame the hitting coach,” said Pirates manager Derek Shelton, who was hitting coach for the Indians from 2004-09 and the Rays from 2010-16. “The reason it’s hard is because anybody who’s ever picked up a bat thinks they can be a hitting coach, and because of that, everybody has an opinion on it.” https://theathletic.com/4118906/2023/01/25/mlb-hitting-coach-jobs/ “Pitching is a very controllable skill. You control your grip, you control your delivery, the things that you can enhance. Hitting is reactionary, so it’s hard to get too scientific in the hitting department, because we’re reacting to 98 with sink and cut, and he might slide it and he might change it and he might have split. There’s a lot more that goes into it than the simple science of swing mechanics. It’s the reaction part of our sport.” -- AJ Hinch
That's really good insight. Kevin Seitzer was a name I hadn't heard in quite some time. I remember when he was a top prospect for the Royals. Want to say Danny Tartabull was a big prospect too around that time. Unforgiving job to say the least
