4:25pm: The Yankees have officially announced Casey’s hiring.
11:37am: Heyman tweets that Casey has agreed to take on the role for the remainder of the 2023 season. Presumably, these next few months will serve as a trial run for a potentially longer stint in the position, but the short-term nature of Casey’s agreement also creates the possibility that there will be another search conducted in the offseason.
11:33am: The Yankees dismissed hitting coach Dillon Lawson over the weekend, and they’ve wasted little time in zeroing in on a replacement. Ken Rosenthal of The Athletic tweets that they’ll hire former All-Star first baseman and current MLB Network personality Sean Casey as Lawson’s successor. Jon Heyman and Joel Sherman of the New York Post first reported that Casey was under “strong” consideration for the position (Twitter links).
Casey, 49, is something of an outside-the-box hire, as he’s never worked as a coach at the minor league or major league level since ending his 12-year playing career in 2008. The three-time All-Star has been working as a broadcaster and analyst on the MLB Network for the past several years. In that sense, there are some parallels between his hiring and that of manager Aaron Boone — another former player who went straight from broadcasting back into a big league dugout. Boone and Casey were teammates with the Reds from 1998 through 2003, when Boone was traded to the Yankees. That familiarity surely plays a role in the decision to consider and ultimately hire Casey despite his lack of experience coaching.
While Casey is new to coaching, he certainly knows a thing or two about hitting. The former second-round pick retired as a .302/.367/.447 hitter and had just a 10.2% strikeout rate against an 8.5% walk rate in 5644 big league plate appearances. Casey made the NL All-Star team in 1999, 2001 and 2004, and he finished out his career with 130 home runs, 322 doubles and 12 triples.
Casey’s background couldn’t be much different from that of his predecessor. Lawson didn’t play baseball professionally, going directly from college ball to the college coaching ranks and eventually coaching in the Royals’ system before being hired away by the Yankees. After a couple years as the organization’s minor league hitting coordinator, Lawson was elevated to the major league hitting coach position following the ’21 campaign, though his time in that spot ultimately lasted just one and a half seasons.
In addition to his dozen years playing at the big league level, Casey has spent considerable time interacting with and building a rapport with current players through his work on MLB Network. “The Mayor” is known for a gregarious and jovial personality. At the very least, one can imagine he’ll have little trouble connecting with the Yankees’ players and fitting in from a clubhouse perspective. The rest of the season will be used to determine both his coaching acumen, his appetite for returning to the dugout on a long-term basis, and whether Yankees decision-makers feel he’s equipped to handle the position in 2024 and beyond.
Odd choice
Dumb choice
Cartrow- He’s The Mayor, well deserving of a shot. Let’s give him a chance. Certainly players will listen to him.
Yes he is deserving of a chance with a team like the Marlins. This is the Yankees. They should be poaching a good hitting coach from another team. It shows Hal is counting his pennies again.
Casey knows how to hit. Whether he’s able to teach others is yet to be determined but I’d at least give him a chance before calling it a dumb hire.
There have been other players who have benefitted from former and current players. heard a story about Spencer Steer, who was having trouble hitting when he first came up. He happened to be on the same flight as Joey Votto. During that time Votto gave Steer a lot of advice about hitting. Steer credits that conversation for turning his season around. Votto for pitching coach !(With the Reds, of course.)
De La Cruz had a similar story. Now you notice he hangs out with Joey a lot.
You’re not hiring an assistant coach at the minor league level, where it’s fine to see “Whether he’s able to teach others”. If you’re a supposed top-level organization, you should be able to hire a major league hitting coach, from among those who have proven they can do the job.
I mean, if you’re a rookie or young player it’d be wise to approach a guy like Joey Votto for advice on hitting. All young players should approach great hitters on their team.
Wonder if any Tigers players have approached Miguel Cabrera about tips and stuff.
Unless guys like Don Baylor or Tony Perez are coming out of a long hitting coach retirement, anyone else of the ilk you describe is most likely employed mid season. Hence a hire until end of season.
Don Baylor is DEFINITELY not coming out of his retirement.
Sausage – It’s midseason. Not enough time to conduct a search, and not many candidates available.
We are talking less than 3 months, no harm in that short an audition.
But….Boone will be the same !!!!
Great communicator, could see this working out.
Sad but true. That man could hit and he didn’t mind getting hit either. How many remember the beginning of free agency when he was traded for Reggie Jackson when both were playing out their current deals.
@Sausage—- someone sounds rather ignorant to make that comment about the team who’s current manager also never had any minor league coaching experience.
Proven they can do it and are out of a job?
Forgot about Don passing.
Sad.
@NicoHoerndawg it’s sad that you don’t have the minimal intelligence required to realize hiring an inexperienced manager was also a bad decision. This was obvious, unless they did not plan to allow Boone to make any decisions and just wanted someone to handle the media.
This one feels like Hal S. liked Casey’s painful segments on MLB’s website and said to Cashman, ‘what about that guy? Let’s get him!’
Given how most guys have their own hitting coaches they work with in the offseason, most fans probably don’t realize just have little impact a hitting coach has these days.
Wrong choice
Can Boone and Cashman be next?
Boone for sure.
@larkraxm- Just because it’s a wish for us, don’t expect it to happen though, maybe they can both take Donaldson with them? We all know Cashman has a life-long contract with the Yankees in some sort of capacity. That’s obvious, never saw someone screw up more then him.
Please let it be so!
He’ll jabber at hitters–that’s certain. Casey in a short segment will bleat “load” a dozen times without once refining the meaning of that complicated word which can refer to many parts of a hitter’s swing.
He might work out, but so might regression to the mean for a half dozen Yankee hitters. Anyway, if Judge doesn’t return it won’t matter.
Sean Casey was the only guy on the 2006 Detroit tigers who hit during the world series?
So just because of that he deserves to be the hitting coach?
Casey blew out his Achilles during the playoffs. His leadership, especially with respect to settling down the infield defense was badly missed during that ‘06 Series.
Is that a real question? Because the answer is “no”.
I like it
The Mayor
Aaron Boone manages his team by analytics formula, not by using his eyes.
Boone manages this team by doing only what he’s told to do by the FO.
Your average Ivy League, analytics, front office nerd knows very little about baseball, but has lots of important, influential friends, look good in a 3 piece suit and are great at office and cocktail parties.
Your first sentence just describe nearly every gm in baseball, assist gm, president of baseball operations and just about every other important role in baseball.
Those nerds you describe are the ones running baseball for the last 10 plus years. It’s clear baseball has past you by and you no longer understand what’s happening in the game. You probably ask yourself why isn’t that guy laying down a bunt against the shift, or why this guy is batting under 200 playing every day or why they’re taking the pitcher out in the 6th with a one hitter going. These things have been explained for years now and yet you still think you’re more knowledgeable about baseball than the nerds lol. You don’t know what you’re watching or understand the game anymore
The game may not be the only thing that’s passed him by. Nobody really wears three-piece suits as a thing like that anymore.
Those same nerds used their Commodore 64s to make the game boring to the point the league had to implement rule changes to bring back some of that lost excitement. Overall, analytics has not been good for baseball, other than padding owner’s wallets. There needs to be more of a balance between using analytics and using human intelligence and understanding.
@mlb fan – If you think baseball analysts are frequenting cocktail parties, then you really have no clue.
What they actually do, is carry out sets of work specific to the requirements of a multi-billion dollar baseball operation – something that you cannot do.
Have you noticed tho how more analytical team have won more? There might be some credit to nerds in baseball
@grnmtnyeti I asked ChatGPT to write me an essay about the balance between using analytics and using human intelligence and understanding. It concluded analytics was better.
@Iverbure, what you say it is true (about running baseball, although I would argue they have ruined baseball). But that does not mean that they have made it a better game. And, I am not merely talking about making it such a boring game that MLB had to step in and make changes. They have simply changed the way the game is played and the way that production is measured.
I would also argue that the ones who do not know anything about baseball are the ones who think that small ball is dead, or has little to no value; that every player in the lineup has to hit a HR to be productive and aims for hitting the ball out every AB; and, the ones who do not realize that good pitchers can pitch into the 7th and 8th inning if allowed. In today’s game, A productive out (hitting the ball the other way, bunting and moving the runner over, and a sac fly has 100% value than a strikeout (a byproduct of every player going into launch-angle mode and trying to hit the 5 run HR every time). Baseball is not played in a saber-vacuum, circumstances, situations dictate the best approach. I hope you love watching a game where you have a player on 2B with no outs and don’t bring him across because everyone has to hit a HR and not move him over and drive him in. Different game, not better. But, I still love it.
“carry out sets of work specific to the requirements of a multi-billion dollar baseball operation”
Proves the point exactly.
They are BS.
Not only that, they are self aggrandised and arrogant on top of that.
It’s the buddy system, fleecing good, loyal Americans.
Can’t imagine.many would invite one to a cocktail party……just help.me fleece.the public, please BUT DON’T COME TO MY PARTY!
Baseball executives aren’t responsible for entertainment in baseball. They’re responsible for their team winning. Most of them did that so other teams followed.
That’s why it was necessary for the league to change the rules. This happens in all sports. When a strategy becomes too effective they change some rules.
Perhaps they should make a rule where teams have to hire drunken fans to run teams?
Yes. The Superfife IS available.
Make baseball great again!
….at least, take the Tigers out of the hands of a man who rather be playing hockey….
Detroit has not prospered and niether have the Tigers. The Illiches have. Pretty good 87M investment.l, stifles the Spirit of.the City.
It must have been those nasty analysts who left that mound at 15″ long enough to bore everybody to death, requiring a rule change such that baseball didn’t become extinct.
Oh, wait, many weren’t even born at that point.
@Iverbure, MLB is an entertainment business. If baseball executives are not interested in the entertainment thereof, they are in the wrong job. And the only thing the strategy was “too effective” at was about making baseball boring, and hard to watch. 16 SO a game, and 9 outs hit into the shift. Maybe you enjoy that kind of “nerdy” baseball.
Their only concern is winning. Winning is hard enough as it is they don’t need the added difficulty of having to win a certain way. It’s really not that hard to understand.
Apparently it is because you don’t get it.
Absolutely! Drunken fans have insight…..
For me, It’s NOT ABOUT WHETHER THE GLASS IS HALF FULL OR HALF EMPTY…..
I don’t understand the focus, because in my mind…..IT’S ABOUT HOW.MUCH IS.LEFT IN THE BOTTLE and WHO’S picking up the tab?(i.e……how much do.you have left on your credit card, honey?)
HIRE THE SUPERFIFE
Doesn’t get distracted by philosophy.
I do get it. You think teams have to win a certain way and baseball executives only job is to win. It’s really that simple. Rules in sports change all the time. What did you want teams to do hire imbeciles from the stands who think batting average and pitcher wins are important?
Pot calling kettle black. I think all approaches are appropriate based on situation, circumstances. In other words, as the game dictates. You, obviously think that small ball has no value, that batting average doesn’t matter, and wins are irrelevant. While I understand the metrics, they are not the end-all be-all you and your camp purport them to be. I’ll take a .310 from my table setters over a guy hitting 20 bombs and a .212 Avg. Lineup construction matters. Which you seem to ignore. How did your beloved metrics work for Cash when he pulled Snell in game six of the 2020 WS?
Why do people who hate analytics say they understand analytics and the price they don’t the next sentence. And why do the old dinosaurs love losing the conventional way. Ei losing with a tired starter on the mound? The starter is cruising until he’s not. You keep yelling at the Tv saying you know more than all the managers and brilliant Ivy League gms. Must be tough for you not to understand the current game whatsoever
Yes. As you can tell by my user name
…I’m not into anylitics……. I was hoping WABip…..meant White Anglo-Saxon Bellydancer in person…..boy, was I disappointed. I.am a bit old fashioned and believe in the eye test amd old fashion stats….you know things like…..Wins.and Losses….and the standings.
Being in first place still counts for.something in my mind….but that’s just me.
As Sal on WFAN calls them, managers today are only data applicators.
Can the Yankees continue hiring annoying baseball analysts to get them off the TV screen? Marble mouth Pedro Martinez would make a good pitching coach. Although that may be asking too much of the Yanks.
Harold Reynolds run HR.
Can they hire Stephen A Smith so I never have to see him on TV again?
Amen!
Yeah, Stephen A Smith can be an usher. Maybe a janitor.
I believe Pedro already does private instructing with MLB players. Wouldn’t surprise me if Casey has similar experience as well.
Pedro actually helped Severino early on. I think they need to get together again. Soon.
Exactly. Can someone hire Dan Plesac as bullpen coach and Billy Ripken as batboy?
sadly, pedro is too busy helping bello become an ace for the red sox
Casey is going to fix Franchy Cordero, for sure.
Ty Cobb couldn’t fix Franchy.
Boonie played with him in Cincy, right?
Yes, at least Sean Casey has experience and success as a hitter, so this might be a good move. Plus it’s a trial run for the Yankees they can’t get worse.
This guy comes off as a simpleton on MLB Network
Bad case of un-medicated attention deficit disorder
Yeah he fits right in with Plesac, Ripken, and the crew. If they’re still on there. I haven’t watched that garbage in a few years.
How badly this organization is run is almost comical. Hiring another person with no experience in what you assume to be a critical role? That’s just idiotic.
Since he’s a Pittsburgh guy and had a short stint here, I almost would expect the Pirates to make this kind of hire
Come to think of it, he couldn’t possibly be as bad as their current hitting coach. “Anemic” offense is an understatement
The Yankees have fired over 40+ yrs of experienced pitching, hitting and training staff over the last 5 yrs, to bring in young, inexperienced, new-age, Ivy League analytics staff with minimal Major League experience. And it shows.
Casey might not have experience coaching at any level but at least the Yankees hired a guy that actually played and had success in the majors, a change from all their analytically-driven hires.
Actually, Cashman has made a lot of bad player personnel decisions and it shows. Nobody can coach some of these guys up.
mlb – One other thing that I haven’t seen mentioned here yet, teams have created several new coaching positions to assist with duties. The Yankees actually have two Assistant Hitting Coaches, Wilkerson and another guy whose name isn’t allowed here. Why were they not replaced too? The fact that neither was promoted is quite telling.
Seems like MLB teams are operating like the Gov now, creating jobs for people who really don’t do much or make much of a difference.
Yeah, that’s the problem. Not the total corruption of the polit**al class by the superrich, but rather redundanet hires.
This is a half-year hire, and it’s probably an acknowledgment that they know they don’t have the horses for this year.
Jeff Saturday hire? Right off of TV!
And reserving the right to fire Boone at the end of the season and bring in a whole new coaching staff.
I like!!
If nothing else, he will keep the guys entertained!
Casey knows hitting, but can he teach? That will be the question this trial will answer. Ted Williams couldn’t teach and several others who were great hitters can’t, while some guys who couldn’t do it well ironically are the best hitting coaches.
Life is funny sometimes.
Actually, in his first year as a manager, Ted Williams turned around an entire team in 1969, the Washington Senators, teaching many guys with bad habits and low batting averages the value of pitch selection and how to draw a walk. His advice boosted batting averages, increased walk totals, and cut down on Ks, and a chronic cellar dweller went to 10 games over .500. You could look it up. Also this: amazon.com/Science-Hitting-Ted-Williams/dp/0671621…
His book is great. A certain guy named Votto has said he wore out his copy that he still has and I remember reading it when I was young but I read about every baseball book that came along then. But even Ted admitted he wasn’t a great coach because he lacked patience. That being said, I can’t imagine things wouldn’t improve at the plate if you just listened to a tenth of what the man said.
And then those Senators lost 16 games off their W-L record the following year, going 70-92 in 1970. Then they went 63-99 in 1971, with even more Teddy to work with.
Context, man.
Who they had wasn’t working. So they hire someone who is about as different from his predecessor in background and experience as could be.
Makes sense. Might not work out, but the thinking is solid.
If anyone ever listened to the Mayor speaking about hitting and listen to Paul O’Neil talk about hitting I think this hire was exactly what this team needs to get away from the mentality of Launch Angle because all CAshman can hang his head up high is that the Yankees lead the league in hardest exit velocity that goes to show how far attached the analytical department of the Yankees have dugged themselves in..
You analytics haters really are losing sleep over how analytics have taken over baseball, haven’t you? Well sorry, but dumb baseball is gone forever.
The real problem is how MLB delayed any meaningful response to analytics (which did make the game more boring to watch) for well over a decade.
This is a disgrace. As someone whose a lifelong Yankee fan and refuses to watch MLB Network because of all their biased and smug analysts, signing him is a slap in the face to Yankee fans. MLB Network is known to hate the Yankees and that I can deal with, but it’s their smug and pretentious analysts on TV that are insufferable. Vasgersian, Reynolds, Amsinger, etc. Yankees are on a downward spiral and signing this bought and paid for hack to be the hitting coach is just another reason Yankee fans know the owner doesn’t care about winning
Agree with all of the above, Yanks2.
You left out the pudgy little troll Brian Kenny in your incisive diatribe.
He looks more like a beaver
Brian Kenny thinks he is the smartest person when it comes to analytics when he mentioned that Othani should immediately be placed in the HOF I thought Pena was going to slug him in the face his expression said it all. This as well when Brian Kenny deemed that when the Cubs gave all the money to Jason Heyward that it will pay dividends and eventually would have underpaid for his services because WAR stated he was worth that kind of money.lol
He’s also a smug little jerk and you don’t have listen to him talk to know that; everyone on MLB Network have very very smug mannerisms and I’ll never forget when they brought Jeter and Cano on for an episode and they asked Jeter I think why he didn’t want to come on the show and he was like “Well, we didn’t want to embarrassed ourselves”; and Cano said “I got to follow the Captain”. So even the players themselves know MLB Network analysts are clowns
They needed a body in there, so they picked him. I guess cause he was available. I’m sure that’s the only reason.
MLB Network televises Yankees games very often. I doubt they hate the Yankees.
Huh?? Maybe to a diehard fan, but I see none of that. What I do see is they point out the yearly underachieving Yankees, and you can’t handle that. Going as far as spewing personal insults their way?? That is SO NY.
I am a Red Sox fan. I am just saying it makes no sense that the network has something against them when they show their games so often.
Everyone over estimates managers/coaches roles. They are there to stroke the players egos. That’s it. In the Yankees case, Cashman is the actual manager. Boone’s job is to deal with the media and argue with umpires.
Not sure why people are up and arms over this hire. He has experience as a former Major Leaguer, he had a good batting average when he played therefore as well Cashman has moved away for the time being about everyone of the hitters with launch angles and its simply a midseason trial and error. Casey has spoken with several hitters while he was at MLB Network so his that report whereas Dillon didnt play at all in MLB and hard for these veterans to have even listened to him. Maybe now Cashman is trying to think a little more Outside of the Box but let’s give Casey a chance before those clamoring its a dumb move.
I don’t know how much Casey helps but I doubt he makes them worse. I bet they hit better as a team in the second half
Had a good batting average, lol!
Thanks Yankees. It gets this windbag off the air at MLB Network.
Oh, somewhere in this favoured land the sun is shining bright,
The band is playing somewhere, and somewhere hearts are light;
And somewhere men are laughing, and somewhere children shout,
But there is no joy in MLBville—mighty Casey has struck out.
Imagine being a former major league all star who retired with a career 300 average and never struck out more than 100 times in a season. Now you’re tasked with being a hitting coach for a team with a bunch of guys who are hitting below .200 and strike out like it gives them satisfaction.
Best of luck, Sean. You got your work cut out for you.
True, but if he had a bunch of .300 hitters who didn’t strike out 100 times it wouldn’t be much of a challenge for him.
As a rule teams replace fired coaches with their polar opposite. Phillies fired new age, stat guru, Gabe Kapler and replaced him with old school, former catcher Joe Girardi. Red Sox replaced Terry Francona with Bobby Valentine, etc.
Well with those 2 comparisons, this should work out seamlessly for the Yankees
I feel like I was just watching this guy cover the draft yesterday…
Great, another boone. Another guy who has no experience as a coach, ever.
Isn’t Sean Casey a storm chaser?
I think he’s more of a chubby chaser, he hits those slumpbusters just for funsies now.
Maybe Casey can fix Aaron Hicks? Oh, wait . . . . .!
Wow, this seems strange. He has been out of the dugout for 15 years and then goes to hitting coach for the Yankees? Maybe he has been doing some consulting and working with guys on the side though.
Best of luck to Casey though.
Didn’t Matt Holliday do that? Albeit more rently
I had to look it up. Looks like Holliday was a bench coach and did it shortly after retirement.
Lolyankees
On the surface I like this hire a lot. Casey certainly knew how to hit for average. Now let’s see if he can teach it to this one note, homer centric lineup.
i don’t hate this. the hitters look tight and if nothing else casey will lighten the mood. sometimes bringing in a guy with the opposite personality of the previous guy can give a boost
For those who follow the Yankees as their team. Do you know the time table for Judge’s return? I’m going to a rockies and Yankees game next Sunday. Any chance of him returning by then?
Sadly not gonna happen
That sucks. Maybe Rizzo will hit an upper deck homerun. I plan on wearing my Bryzzo jersey.
Sean Casey had a lot of charisma. I bet he’ll do well in NYY.
Odd choice but very happy for the Mayor, a very talented player and likeable person. Best Reds first baseman between Perez and Votto.
At least he’s not another cookie cutter, frat boy analytics nerd. I say give the “Mayor” a chance, he can’t possibly be any worse than the usual monkey-see, monkey-do analytics nerds the Yankees usually favor. What’s odd about the Yankees, is that they always want to be seen as forward thinking, cutting edge, but they’re running a baseball and business model right out of the PED 1980’s.
This seems very reactionary
Well they did just fire their former hitting coach and I don’t think it was on a whim.
What, none of the laid-off hosts from ESPN were interested?…
They’re all too busy consoling Stevie rAy Smiff, who is afraid he’ll be next.
Hahaha
Not a bad choice
He was definitely a good fundamentals type hitter
Great, now get rid of donaldson and bring in a bat or two. That is what we really need.
At what point is Cashman held responsible for assembling terrible teams?
Whenever George rises from the grave it seems like…
When they miss the playoffs for multiple seasons in a row. They have been in the playoffs for the last 6 years in a row and 21 of the 25 years he has been at the helm.
Fair, but as a Boston fan I understand this too. You don’t play as a Yankee (or what used to be the Red Sox) to get in, you play to be the last one out of the playoffs. Or at least that used to be the standard.
$200mil plus team
Full of all stars or former all stars hr leaders and the yanks still
Need a hitting coach.
At this point anybody would be better. The offense has been atrocious, outside of the home runs.
Always nice too see a guy who has been a very good hitter in MLB get a shot as a hitting coach, good luck Sean.
At the very least he can instruct them on stretching between every pitch. Oh wait….
Casey is good people and I can understand trying an experiment for half a season. I mean what do they Yankees have to lose? Ohhhh wait…
Contact, patient, high-average hitter. Can that translate as a coach? He’s a very engaging, high-energy person who the players should respect and get along with. Now for the hard part!
Still probably better than Peter Fatso. A Boston team that can’t hit nor hit for power. Absurd.
Jeff Kent would be a good hitting coach.
Has there ever been a MLB manager who never even played Little League baseball or high school level, etc. ?
12 years in the majors. .302 career hitter. Yet the moron brigade thinks he doesn’t understand hitting.
I hope the Yankee players like someone who never shuts the f up and laughs after every single syllable he says. Thank God this annoying ass is off my tv.
Get you some, Carl!!
Thank god for the mute button so annoying asses like you are off my feed on here.
Major league coaches are retooling hitters or developing different mechanics. They are builders of confidence. I’ve never heard anyone in the game say a bad word about Casey and that is tough to do. His main focus will be to add stability and positive feedback during tough times. He doesn’t need to teach, he just needs to keep them doing what got them there in the first place.
When casey was playing with the reds i remember a comment made about his hitting. I cant remember the source, a coach i think, but he said as big as casey is you would think he would hit a hr on accident at least. He was hitting around 290 or so but had just a few hr at the time.
Great hire. Long time veteran. hit over .300 in the majors. Well respected around the game, but he has turned down several jobs in baseball over the years. Time after time we have all seen him accurately break down what ails hitters in his spots on MLB Network. The mayor is going to do well.
any Yankees fans complaining, stop it. you are one of the worst teams in baseball at hitting. can Sean Casey do well coaching? I don’t know, but he had a career .302 AVG.
Earl Scruggs, Bela Fleck, Sean Casey.
My three favorite banjo plinkers.
Tony Trischka?
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Imagine critiquing a guy who had 12 years MLB experience that struck out roughly a tick over 10% of his PA’s and had a lifetime BA of .302, yet there are people here saying “lol” and the like. I think it’s absolutely laughable that the guy hasn’t even started, yet MLBTR board commenters ‘think’ they know better than Sean Casey, because Casey didn’t come through their ‘school’ of ‘analytics’ being the be all and end all according to them.
Yes, analytics has it’s place in baseball, but it is how it’s utilized, it is certainly not the be all end all in baseball that some of you ‘think’ it is. Some people here even ‘lol’ing’ at BA or OBP, they’re probably the same type of people who think eg. Tony Gwynn or Chipper Jones were no good.
Imagine the Braves hiring Larry as a hitting instructor-straight out of ESPN as an analyst to the Braves, unbelievable to ‘think’ that he’d know a thing or two about hitting and whom players would respect and listen to on the subject….
Chipper Jones, Tony Gwynn, Sean Casey
Marylin Monroe, Jayne Mansfield, Phyllis Diller
Ok so what’s really going on is the Yankees front office is punking the fans.
I think Boone wanted Casey as much for his personality as his hitting acumen. He is as upbeat as they come. Through the grind of the dog days I’m sure he will help keep the mood light and instead of coming right in and fixing everyone he will sit back and observe and interject when he sees fit.
He’s gonna look odd clean shaven.