Re: Red Sox are a joke
coaching doesn't have much affect in baseball at all. All the guys you just mentioned (with the exception of Jones, who was so bad the ROCKIES let him go) came from small markets and are suddenly thrust into the race. BIG adjustment.
Lowe was a Cy Young candidate under a similar coaching staff and the same manager this year. Wallace is regarded highly, and Cloninger, who they still have contact with, is one of the best.
As for leaving men on base, no, Nomar doesn't need advice. He just didn't get it done. Manny struck out late in the game, and that wasn't Ron Jackson's fault. Many major league hitters have personal hitting instructors and don't even talk to the team's coach.
We're finding out the results of what we already knew, the sox got guys who had never done it in big games in the pen (need I bring up Kim's 2001 series?) or had never been there, and that hitting comes and goes in cycles, unless you're a special player like Bonds.
coaching doesn't have much affect in baseball at all. All the guys you just mentioned (with the exception of Jones, who was so bad the ROCKIES let him go) came from small markets and are suddenly thrust into the race. BIG adjustment.
Lowe was a Cy Young candidate under a similar coaching staff and the same manager this year. Wallace is regarded highly, and Cloninger, who they still have contact with, is one of the best.
As for leaving men on base, no, Nomar doesn't need advice. He just didn't get it done. Manny struck out late in the game, and that wasn't Ron Jackson's fault. Many major league hitters have personal hitting instructors and don't even talk to the team's coach.
We're finding out the results of what we already knew, the sox got guys who had never done it in big games in the pen (need I bring up Kim's 2001 series?) or had never been there, and that hitting comes and goes in cycles, unless you're a special player like Bonds.
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