Here’s the latest on coaching changes around the majors:
- Former big league infielder Alex Cora will take over the Astros’ vacant bench coach position, as Ken Rosenthal of FOX Sports first reported on Twitter. Long noted as a potential future MLB manager, Cora will return to uniform alongside Houston skipper A.J. Hinch. Since his 14-year major league career ended in 2011, Cora has served as an ESPN analyst and worked for Puerto Rico’s national team; he is the general manager of the team’s 2017 World Baseball Classic entrant. Hinch spoke of his new bench coach’s potential to provide “impact an entire roster of players,” as Jake Kaplan of the Houston Chronicle reports. Cora will take over for Trey Hillman, who left the Astros to manage in the KBO.
- The Rockies have hired Mike Redmond as bench coach, per a team announcement. He’ll be a top lieutenant to new skipper Bud Black. The 45-year-old, a long-time major league catcher, managed the Marlins from the 2013 season through early in the 2015 campaign. Redmond will join Black in attempting to steer Colorado back to a winning record. The organization has signaled that it’ll boost its payroll and seems intent on competing after a relatively hopeful 2016 season.
- Glenn Sherlock has joined the Mets as their new third base coach, replacing Tim Teufel, the club announced. Tuefel will be re-assigned if he chooses to stick with the organization. As for Sherlock, he’ll not only wave runners home but will be tasked with working with the Mets’ catchers. He has long worked with the Diamondbacks in a variety of coaching capacities. A former minor league backstop, Sherlock will be looked to as a key figure in the development of Travis d’Arnaud and Kevin Plawecki. That pair of touted catchers has yet to deliver consistently at the major league level, and their continued growth figures to be an important factor for the Mets in 2017 and beyond.
I know every fan thinks their 3rd base coach sucks but by god Tuefel was bad. Tried to compensate for a weak offense by sending runners at a ridiculously over-aggressive clip.
I had no complaints about Ron roenicke
that might be the first time I’ve heard anybody not have many many issues with him lol Brewers fans would have a long list of complaints. Although to be fair, none of them had to do with him sending runners.
That’s actually comforting to hear. Ed Sedar of MIL drives me nuts sometimes sending runners carelessly and then also being too conservative at other times. Glad to know other teams’ fans experience similar frustrations occasionally.
As much as we love Tim, he legitimately lost games for the Mets last year.
I assume everyone who frequents this site has MLB Network because ESPN is the biggest disgrace in sports. Their MLB analysts are absolutely the worst and talk like the audience is a five year old. Alex Cora was a part of that, but I fully chalk that up to the network, hopefully. ESPN is such a joke and they should be held accountable for only covering big market teams. And this is nothing new, but there needs to be an equal distribution of coverage of teams. ESPN has devolved to NFL and some NBA, other than that they really don’t care and anyone who works there or is affiliated with such has no care for content. Luckily guys like Brian Kenny and Harold Reynolds abandoned that skatshow long ago. Just a shame the majority of people have to deal with ESPN as their source of sports. My hate for them runs very thick.
YESPN
I’ve had some dental procedures that were more entertaining than listening to Harold Reynolds
It baffles me that Reynolds is still employed. He’s borderline incomprehensible, his attitude is pretty arrogant, and I find myself disagreeing with almost everything he says. He doesn’t appear to be interested in stats, especially newer ones, either.
Agreed
Which is more lucrative for ESPN income wise? Sunday night baseball with Boston versus New York, or San Diego versus Cincinnati? It’s all about the advertising dollars
But I definitely agree with you, the analysts suck
Way to improve is use the teams (in most cases by taking one from each team and pairing them together, or whichever team is at home and let them make the broadcast. ESPN and MLB just have and have had lousy teams it seems forever. Jim Kaat was a good MLB analyst, but it seems got a bit old and has ceased.. it happens. reynolds is as pathetic as Howard Cosell was and equally annoying. Joe Magrane on MLB, who seems to be their main color guy now is nearly as bad as is reynolds.
TBS and Carey the 3rd is nothing like his father and grandfather.. Ought to hang up his mic..
Allowing teams to use their own announcers, even the half dozen or so with serious homer announcers would be an improvement than the ones major networks are using.
I couldn’t agree more
Eh, both networks analysts can be pretty awful. Byrnes and DeRosa are either good or make me want to drive an ice pick through my temple. As for ESPN, you can’t have equal treatment for all teams if you can only dedicate a finite amount of time to the sport.
Also, Harold Reynolds got canned from ESPN for repeated sexual harassment claims.
Sad to see Sherlock go from the Dbacks to the Mets! That guy was a fantastic coach with us for a long time.
I’m intrigued by the Harold Reynolds comment. I believe Doug Glanville is the more fan-friendly version of HR. However, I can see where nerds like the Brian Kenny, HR, Plesac bunch. Smoltz is actually approaching that category, too. There should almost be a parallel “Sabermetric” channel that simulcasts each game.
Harold Reynolds, a nerd? I must disagree.
An old wooden post would be more fan-friendly than HR…because the post would know when to not talk. If the old wooden post did choose to talk, people would actually care about what it had to say.
I am I think the only baseball fan on Earth who likes Harold Reynolds. He entertains me, which is sort of the point.
I like him.
I like him too
Shame on all of you.
I think Eric Byrnes is David Lee Roth’s little nephew with a bad speed habit!
I’ll take Lauren Shehadi ANY day!