Cardinals assistant hitting coach Jobel Jimenez won’t return to the club in 2022, reports Jeff Jones of the Belleville News-Democrat (Twitter links). Jimenez was offered a position as a roving instructor on the minor league side of the organization but turned down the reassignment.
The departure of Jimenez is the first notable change to newly tabbed manager Oliver Marmol’s 2022 staff. The Cardinals stunned onlookers by abruptly parting ways with former skipper Mike Shildt and quickly elevated Marmol to the manager’s chair just over a week after firing Shildt.
Jimenez, like Shildt is a longtime Cardinals fixture who first joined the organization back in 2007 (as profiled in this 2019 piece by Anne Rogers of MLB.com). Initially hired as the hitting instructor of the Cardinals’ affiliate in the Venezuelan Summer League, he steadily rose through the Cardinals’ system and served as a hitting coach at various minor league stops before being added to the big league staff, under Shildt, in 2019. Rogers notes that Jimenez has previously worked as a scout and and instructor in the Mariners and Dodgers organizations as well.
After being bounced by the Dodgers in the National League Wild Card game, the Cardinals were reportedly mulling an extension for Shildt and leaning toward retaining the entire coaching staff. Shildt’s firing and the attempted reassignment of Jimenez represent a rapid about-face from that direction. It’s not clear whether additional changes to the staff can be anticipated, though they’ll obviously need to hire a new bench coach now that Marmol has been elevated from that position to manager. The Cards have yet to formally announce Marmol’s coaching group for the upcoming season.
The only other person I could see leaving is Clapp since he didn’t get the job. Everyone else will be back. Maddux and Albert (unfortunately) are under contract through 2022.
I thought the Pirates asked for permission to interview Stubby for Manager?
Clapp could be promoted? Who knows?
It was all his fault.
Gotta blame somebody, right?
Everyone is king when there’s no one left to pawn
It’s Albert’s way or the highway when it comes to hitting philosophy. The purge of dissidents continues.
Lol
True
Just what is Alberts way? Do we know?
How much does an assistant hitting coach get paid?
Wait, I may not want to know
It’s absolutely startling how little most people involved in baseball make, except of course for major league players, GM’s, managers, and the like. I remember once running across the public salaries of TV play-by-play guys (they make money through endorsements as well … this is just from the broadcasts) and was stunned. It’s in five digits in many cases.
I always thought the Cardinals hitting philosophy wasn’t the best after letting Voit go in a trade.
I’m probably wrong tho
Obviously Voit, Wisdom, Wong, plus many other Cardinals players who have been disbursed to other teams (for basically nothing), who are gone because they wouldn’t buy into Alberts launch angle theory.
Many of those departed Cardinals have become stars on other teams without the launch angle theory.
It’s also extremely obvious —- players, coaches, and now, a winning manager will be fired or reassigned to a position of which prompts them to resigning —-instead of being fired.
My hopes are that Mozeliak and Alberts don’t trade off Edmond!!! Edmond is a pure contact hitter who makes things happen. I’m sure he has confidence in his his current stroke. But obviously —- that is not Alberts style of a hitting approach.
Mozeliak had better make strong impact moves over the winter!!!!! After letting Schildt go for Differences of Philosophy, plus all of the others who are not wearing the Cardinal uniform because they didn’t respect Alberts Philosophy on Hitting, the Cardinals had better build a strong club!!!
After all of Mozeliak’s unpopular moves over the past 5-6 years, Nothing more than a berth in the NL Championship Series will be accepted.
Will be interesting to see if all these brilliant moves lead to a better offense next season. One might think it would be a good idea to have a mix of old and new school coaches but I guess not in the Bowtie world of Mo. Whether he likes it or not, Mo is on the clock with all of his lateral moves. Please don’t extend Carp again or give any more big multi year deals to washed up relievers.
They should have just named Jeff Yoko Albert manager and been done with it.
You won’t see Jose Jimenez either !!