They were tied for 5th in runs scored with Before they played game , they sat at 13th in runs and 14th in OPS. Juan Castro also joined Joe Dillon for the season. The Phillies recorded a. Their 94 errors were the 10th worst in baseball. They recorded a. As noted by Todd Zolecki, assistant hitting coach Pedro Guerrero is still on the team but will be free to search for other employment opportunities.
The new Phillies hitting coach for the season will get to pick their own assistant. When Girardi managed the Yankees, Long served as their hitting coach from They won the World Series together, and Long has since worked with the Mets and Nationals , helping the latter win their first championship in franchise history in The Phillies had their first winning season in a decade, and the addition of Long is a clear sign that they intend to build on that success.
Kevin Long has been hired by the Phillies as hitting coach for the major league coaching staff, the club announced today. At the very beginning of the sticky substance crackdown during the season, Girardi asked the umpires to check then-Nationals starter Max Scherzer for banned substances even though the ace had already been inspected.
Chaos ensued when then-Nationals coach Long began shouting at Girardi from the DC dugout, and the Phillies manager charged the field and was subsequently ejected. Many thought that Girardi had been trying to fight Scherzer, but a closer look revealed the Long angle.
The manager and his once-again coach have seemingly put the incident in the past, as Girardi raved about Long when the hire was officially announced on Wednesday:. I truly believe he is the best in the business and will have a huge impact on our offense. As the press release noted, the Nationals led MLB in OBP and led the NL in batting average while he was their hitting coach, and they had the second-lowest strikeout rate and fourth-highest walk rate in the game.
Nationals star Juan Soto led MLB with walks this season; he was one of only three players with over walks, and no other player had more than Reds GM Nick Krall recently said that Cotham had interviewed for two big-league pitching coach jobs this offseason. Cotham replaces Bryan Price, who stepped down after one season, and become the Phillies' fifth pitching coach in five seasons.
It's unclear how the Phillies will structure the rest of their pitching instruction. They have an opening for bullpen coach after Jim Gott's contract was not renewed. The Phillies are also looking for a new head of baseball operations after Matt Klentak was stripped of his general manager's title in October. Earlier this fall, owner John Middleton said it could take anywhere from a month to the bulk of the season to fill the position.
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