The Red Sox are parting ways with first base coach Tom Goodwin, chief baseball officer Chaim Bloom told reporters (including Molly Burkhardt of MLB.com). Goodwin had been in that role for the past four seasons, joining Alex Cora’s staff before the latter’s first year as Boston’s manager. After a fourteen-year major league playing career, Goodwin moved into coaching and minor league managing in the Red Sox’s system. Between two separate stints with the Sox, he spent six seasons as Mets’ first base coach. Goodwin’s departure might be the only change on Cora’s staff, as Bloom told reporters the Red Sox are hoping to bring back the rest of the group in 2022.
The latest on a few other coaching situations around the league:
- The Cardinals have been in contact with Padres associate manager Skip Schumaker about potentially joining the organization in some capacity, reports Derrick Goold of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Almost immediately after the Cards dismissed Mike Shildt as manager, speculation arose about Schumaker — a former Cardinals utilityman — as a potential successor. St. Louis opted to promote bench coach Oliver Marmol instead, although it’s still possible Schumaker could assume some other position on the Cardinals staff. The 41-year-old remains employed by San Diego, but Padres’ coaches were given permission to explore opportunities elsewhere after the Friars dismissed manager Jayce Tingler.
- The Guardians are on the hunt for a new hitting coach after parting ways with Ty Van Burkleo a few weeks ago. Paul Hoynes of cleveland.com reports that his replacement is expected to come from outside the organization. Searching for a hitting instructor is unfamiliar territory for the Guardians’ front office and manager Terry Francona. Van Burkleo had served in that role for the entirety of Francona’s tenure as Cleveland’s manager, joining the staff leading into the 2013 season.
- Brewers coaching staff advisor Ed Sedar is retiring, the club announced this morning. Sedar was a longtime member of the staff, working as a base coach for the Brew Crew from 2007-20. He transitioned into an advisory role last winter, with former big league outfielder Quintin Berry stepping into the vacant third base coaching role. Sedar spent the better part of three decades in the Milwaukee organization, first joining the club as a minor league coach in 1992.
Skip Schumaker should go back home to the Cardinals. Hopefully, Mozeliak hires him and he becomes the new bench coach. Nothing like home and he should be back with the Cards.
Quintin Berry is the 1st base coach in Milwaukee. Jason Lane moved from 1st base to 3rd base coach
The use of the word Guardians prompted me to click on the TEAMS icon thingy at the top of the page…lo and behold they are now the Cleveland Guardians. This is a not a rumor, it is a fact.
We here in the comments section would also like to wish Ed Sedar all the the best as he transitions from a career in baseball to retirement! Cheers!
MLBTR might have changed their page title, but the official site of Cleveland’s baseball team did not. As of 9:40am on 10/26/21, the official team name is the Cleveland Indians. So, your comment that states the name change is a “fact” means you haven’t taken the time to investigate for yourself. You simply take this particular site’s word and opinion as “fact.”
The name change goes into effect at the end of the season – website will be changed within 24 hrs of the last out of the world series – count on it. They are the Indians until then.
Is anything changing with the team colors?
Red Sox couldn’t get past First Base. Heh heh.
The Cleveland Guardians. What are they guarding, it sure isn’t championship trophies. That name is so lame. I’d rather be called the Cleveland Camel Toes than the Guardians. Or just say screw it and go with the Cleveland Steamers.
I call them GUARDIANS OF THE INDIANS,
In a broken land that has been cleaved asunder, only one team stands to protect the citizens from mortal peril: the Cleveland Guardians.
It’s a pretty terrible name.
“You get a piece of it, I’ll let you rename it”
Great name for arena football team.
They’re named after the statues on the bridge near the stadium. It’s fine. I’d have rather seen the Spiders, or the Rollers
Congratulations to Eddie Sedar on an excellent MLB career, and have fun in retirement. My guess is Ed will never be too far from a ball field.
Was there name chosen by a 3rd graders competition or something??
With all the history in Cleveland, and they chose THAT as their name?? What does it even mean or stand for??
I always thought it should have been Cleveland Rockers…But then again, I also had a poster of John Rocker as a kid…Sooo, maybe I’m not the best judge…lol
Always loved his run from the pen, and his double tap going through his mechanics..Never would have guessed it was all a product of years of meth use..
(It’s a joke, not factually true…Well, idk, kind of actually makes sense now that I think about it..lol)
The crazy thing about Rocker is, for all that he said, his punishment didn’t end up being that harsh. Granted this was long before social media and the cancel culture could you end your whole career overnight, but he ended up getting several chances to return. Make any one of the statements he made today, and bye bye everything.
Why would anyone want a guy that called a Black teammate a “fat monkey” on his team?
look up guardian bridge for some deep rooted Cleveland history
True.
Manny Rameriz was driving over it early one morning after a night game. A cop stopped him for speeding. Told Manny he was giving him a ticket. Manny replied: “It’s OK, I play for the team. I get plenty of tickets”.
Yeah, here’s a better one. One time Shin Soo Choo was wasted and didn’t know how to get out of there and back home. He flagged down a cop and asked him to follow him home, needless to say that genius got a DUI.
Methinks the people most upset about the name change aren’t even from Cleveland because of they were they wouldn’t be asking what the time means. If you can find MLBTR you can find Google and look it up.
Cleveland fans know all about the bridge and structure. If you look at the user ids you’d see they aren’t Tribe fans like bravesfan88 here. And if they took away the Tribe’s logo and name, his team shouldn’t be far behind for theirs as well as the tomahawk chop.
Some of you people can look under a rock in the desert and call it “racist.” Disgusting.
Doesn’t Milwaukee need a hitting coach also? I saw they parted ways with the former Cubs coach Andy Haines.
Parted ways/chose to not renew his contract. Essentially the same thing.
However, I think the reason he was there at all (this year anyway) is because of his connection with Yelich. Clearly the magic is gone (or should I say this is the current excuse for Yelich’s far-from-mvp-form over the past 2 seasons), so it’s out with the old, in with the new [potential scapegoat].
I hereby solemnly vow to NEVER watch a baseball game when a team called “The Guardians” is involved.
Neat.
I think half of this is a ploy to sell jerseys, but imho, you are taking this too seriously. Being Irish, I like have a team named the Celtics, or the Fighting Irish. But if the First American groups are offended, I don’t give a rat’s a$$ if they change the names.
In other news MLB Labs announced this morning that they’ve successfully produced 29 clones of Kevin Long who will be assigned to all teams except the Phillies who will retain the services of the original Kevin Long. Rob Manfred praised the Labs’ achievement and remarked, “We’ve taken all the guesswork out of hiring a hitting coach across the board. You’re welcome.”
Associate manager, never heard that. Does he follow just a few steps behind the bench coach or something? Ahah
Preller has five “coaches” on the bench, including two “associate” managers. Yeah, but he’s not a micromanaging control freak. And the managers had no inpuf on this bizarre structuring in their dugout.
I’ve never heard the name Ty Van Burkleo until today when I found out he was Cleveland’s (now former) hitting coach. How long was he there?
Since 2013, when Terry Francona became the manager.
Goodwin wasn’t allowed near the team for the playoffs, because he wasn’t vaccinated.
They said that wasn’t a factor in not retaining his services, but I don’t believe it.
Go BRAVES !!!! Hope they win the world championship after what manfred did to Atlanta with the all star game
Political correctness is a dangerous phenomena. It changes the concept of majority rules to the influencers rule. Thus a smaller part of the whole now has the biggest say and the myth is that this power aligns with race, religion or personal preferences. Social media has perverted the genuine need for minority opinions to be heard to a new society dictated by the few who influence the airways, the internet and other media sources.
For years people have feared that government was forcing things down their throat and lying to them. Now it’s the influencers. What portion of the population is actually offended by the word Indians? Influencers make it seem like the majority and by doing so they have converted many who were neutral to THEIR belief. The public now has two groups to be concerned about. The government and the influencers and right now the more powerful group is the influencers.
Changing the name of a sports team isn’t a big deal. Changing it because someone wants to show their power over the world though their ability to influence change, now that’s a big deal. Going forward, all attempts to change established norms need to be reviewed to see if it’s about the actual change or the change driver’s need to prove their power of persuasion over the world.
Whether readers on this site like it or not, influencers are constantly commenting to sway the public opinion of the people on this site. Most are genuine comments but not all. The influencers are paid to have fans believe what their bosses want the public to believe on all sports topics. If you read opinions not backed by facts, call out the writer to prove what they are saying rather than believing it on the surface. It makes the influencers earn their money and most times they won’t bother with the support documentation.
Agree, well said indeed
KD – Did you know that even in the sports writing world, several people are paid JUST to write about things that THEY find offensive with the goal of garnering enough attention to make others feel offended as well.
For instance Yahoo/AOL’ has a columnist that is paid to write about just gender and race issues. She is the one that’s leading the attack on Tony Romo for a completely harmless, silly bit of humor. If there’s nothing for people to be offended about, she would be out of a job. So as the saying goes, if there’s no controversy to write about …. create a controversy. That’s exactly what she did.
And you’re right about this site. I have a stalker here using multiple accounts and he’s doing everything he can to “cancel” me because I briefly mention the word “prayers” in a few threads. It’s absolutely absurd how, even with the great mute feature we now have available, that people are still trying to shove their opinions down everyone’s throat and won’t stop until they get what they want which is to silence those with differing opinions.
FPG – The manipulation of opinion has existed for years. Subliminal advertising and other subtle techniques have fallen by the wayside to the direct approach of bullying opinions by pouncing on the naysayers.
This site is one of the best for being able to say what you think without site repercussions The Athletic is a joke because you must voice the opinion of the person assigned control of the writing for each team. Over the monster is nothing but a paid influencer site. I like Rumors because censorship is not exercised with regard to pointing out flaws in an organization or individual.
Freedom of speech found in the form of allowing opposing opinions to coexist on a site is good. Stalkers are commonplace unfortunately but the mute feature has really changed the stress level of participation by eliminating the ignorant stalkers that you referenced. Also, several have crossed lines that they shouldn’t have crossed and got banned which is yet another feature I like about the site. Yes, their quest to stalk is great enough that they are willing to pay to rejoin under a new name to give specific individuals insults but with the mute feature that issue is eliminated the second the new id shows up.
Sorry to hear you are experiencing similar bad behavior like I do.
Well said KD17