The Athletics have announced that Matt Williams will take over as the team’s new third base coach. He will round out the staff of manager Bob Melvin.
Oakland had an opening arise when the Nationals hired away Chip Hale, who’s now the bench coach in the nation’s capital. Williams, of course, previously served as the Nats’ manager. Now, he’s heading back to the Bay Area, where he once starred with the Giants.
The 51-year-old Williams has plenty of experience waving runners to the plate. He has served as the Diamondbacks’ third base coach for two different stints, wrapped around his up-and-down tenure in D.C.
World Series here we come!
Hard to beat experience… Good choice for the A’s…
I await the Giants counter-move…..
Carney Lansford.
This is the counter-move. The Giants picked up Curt Young as pitching coach who the A’s fired during this last season.
Very true. Makes a person wonder if they just check to see who is living in the area. Will Clark shows up….we’ll know the cold war has gone thermal.
Carney already served an unsuccessful stint as the Giants’ batting coach in 2008-2009.
The A’s should have named Matt Williams their third baseman, not their third base coach.
Uh, Matt Chapman is pretty good.
The Giants front office is filled with idiots. “We need a third base coach… better promote someone that’s never done it before instead of hiring an experienced Matt Williams who was covering our disastrous season on postgame live last year.”
Wtf are you talking about, wotus was a third base coach for years before he was the bench coach
Just because he was a third base coach for years doesn’t mean he’s good!!
Years? Try one season in 98. Matt Williams would have been the better hire. I love Wotus though, no knock on him.
This guy would be lucky to be managing a cinnabun in Omaha idk how he got this gig.
I can’t believe he’s 51. Man time flies
Not when we’re the same age. Not really.
He’s gonna have a lot of defensive talent at first and third to work with this season. Gonna be fun watching Matt Chapman and Matt Olson get even better at defense than they already are.
Wow. Didn’t know Matt Williams was available. Great move.
Complete Jerk. Wouldn’t let him take my duck to water.
@mdunkel He’d shoot your duck before it got to water and eat it in front of you fruit cake!
There’s no better third base coach than a third baseman.
This is an awesome move. What triple A team wouldn’t want Matt Williams on staff.
The double A team you are cheering for.
Sorry. Im not an A’s fan.
Relax everyone, they will trade him at the deadline anyway!
Any other Matts available to fill this team out?
We need more Matts. How about an entire lineup full!