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Of course it's all speculation at this point as Wren meets with the coaching staff, but Mark Bowman is suggesting that McDowell, Perez, and Snitker are likely to be the only holdovers from Cox's staff.

No TP...(fingers crossed)

Snitker can go too. He hasn't been very good as a 3rd base coach honestly.

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I would be shocked if he doesnt keep McDowell and Perez is probably indeed safe as well with the way we hit most of the season he has a plenty of reason to send TP packing and who knows what he'll do for a bench coach

How hard is it to coach a bench? :huh:

I mean, all it does is sit there and hold up players' butts. :blink:

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It's very hard to make a good pitching change when you have no recourse but to send in the Marlin relievers. The Marlins made some helpful roster moves after Fredi left, but nobody could have done much with the early season situation.

I wasn't just talking about this year and I wasn't talking about in terms of results. I'm talking about getting hooked on this lefty/righty SHYT! Which is exactly what it is! Totally BS!

Here's how pitching changes work against a manager. You don't take a guy out and he gives up runs, then the manager made a dumb move. You take the guy out and the guy that comes in gives up runs, then the manager made a dumb move. SAME SCENARIO. No one knows what would have happened the other way around, yet people love to blame the manager in that instance when he relies 100% on the execution of his players. Yet people rarely remember when the manager gets it right on a change/no change. Thus, it's a no win. The crowd loved that Bobby gave Lowe a chance. Afterward he was criticized for it. Fans often make the decision after the outcome, but when you manage, you don't have hindsight to base your decision off of.

If you have a bad bullpen, your changes are going to look worse on you. A manager also has to balance overworking the starting pitching and the bullpen over the course of the season. Fans tend to look at it as a one game all or nothing decision. Good managers will have the entire season in mind.

I was happy Bobby left Lowe in! What pissed me off was Lowe getting ******* squeezed resulting in 2 straight walks!

And while you do make some good points when the announcers who are cheering for the other team question your move and jump for joy over it (talking about pulling Kimbrel and putting in Dunn) that is not questioning a move after the fact! That is fully hating a ******* move before it is made because it has disaster written all over it!

I would be shocked if he doesnt keep McDowell and Perez is probably indeed safe as well with the way we hit most of the season he has a plenty of reason to send TP packing and who knows what he'll do for a bench coach

I think Chino should stay as the bench coach!

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How hard is it to coach a bench? :huh:

I mean, all it does is sit there and hold up players' butts. :blink:

positioning is critical. To close to the wall and you are to straight up and your neck will hurt and to far away and your lower back will hurt. Plus the vast difference in size players makes it an exact science....not everyone could handle this type of pressure.

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positioning is critical. To close to the wall and you are to straight up and your neck will hurt and to far away and your lower back will hurt. Plus the vast difference in size players makes it an exact science....not everyone could handle this type of pressure.

Which is why I think Chino should stay. I don't remember any of our players getting hurt from sitting on the bench. :lol:

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How is that exactly?

I wasn't thrilled with his ability to direct runners on the base paths. There were many times that we were thrown out that I felt like he made a poor decision to send the runner. There were also times that we didn't send guys that we probably should have. Again a lot of this is subjective and I can't sit here and list out every time it happened but it's what I saw and it's my opinion. If he stays... fine. But I don't think he's all that great.

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TP will stay on the staff, but as the 1B coach and fielding coach. :wacko: atleast there will be a new hitting coach

Perez, Mcdowell, and majority of the staff will stay except for hubbard and chino are gone.

Correction TP will be the fielding instructor

I'll miss Hubbard and as far as TP goes he was a gold glove defender so that is one positive to look at.

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TP will stay on the staff, but as the 1B coach and fielding coach. :wacko: atleast there will be a new hitting coach

Perez, Mcdowell, and majority of the staff will stay except for hubbard and chino are gone.

Correction TP will be the fielding instructor

Well, that's fine with me. Hitting coach was not the position for him.

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TP will stay on the staff, but as the 1B coach and fielding coach. :wacko: atleast there will be a new hitting coach

Perez, Mcdowell, and majority of the staff will stay except for hubbard and chino are gone.

Correction TP will be the fielding instructor

Hmm! He was a **** good fielder! If he makes our defense better than good move! Can we please get Don Baylor back as our hitting coach? Remember how great our offense was when he was here? He's the one that taught Chipper how to hit homeruns batting right-handed and all Chipper did was go out and hit 45 homeruns and win the MVP.

its an ok move, but thank god he is not our hitting coach anymore. the guy i want is the guy for the rangers, but thats a pipe dream

You mean the guy that left the Rangers for the Cubs this year and the Cubs had one of the worst offenses in the majors this year? That guy? Rudy however you spell it?

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