Hensley Meulens takes over as hitting coach for the San Francisco Giants:
Meulens, a former Yankees top prospect, played parts of five seasons with the club before a stint in Japan. He was credited with helping to turn around John Bowker and Eugenio Velez at Fresno last season.
Meulens holds a .288 career OBP in the majors. Yes, he played mostly before the offensive explosion of 1993, but .288 is still poor. I’d feel better about the Giants if they hired someone who knew how to get on base to teach their players how to get on base.
Update: I was a little flippant in that last paragraph. Poor hitters do go on to be good coaches. I would love a reporter to ask Meulens, however, how he plans to teaching players to be more selective when he wasn’t that good at it.
Posted by David Pinto at 8:15 pm | Management | Permalink | 2 Comments
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November 2nd, 2009 @ 8:51 pm
He could just show them his ABs and say “don’t do that.”
November 2nd, 2009 @ 8:57 pm
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