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Baseball Primer Newsblog — The Best News Links from the Baseball Newsstand Sunday, February 17, 2013Dismissal by Phillies still stings ex-hitting coach Greg GrossGG All-in and The Disappointments (Bitter Boy Records)
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1. bookbook Posted: February 17, 2013 at 09:43 AM (#4370956)Where has Greg Gross been all these years?
So GG, yeah you're a scapegoat, but there is no compelling reason for you not to be scapegoated.
Obviously there are exceptions, I figure there are guys who espouse philosophies that can be good or bad (expand your zone if your a 4 hitter with 3 balls so you can drive in a run). And there are probably a few guys who really can change a players fundamentals to make them more slump proof. All that said it seems to me we're too quick to expect these guys to do miracles, but also too quick to give then credit when a player comes out of a slump likely caused by bad luck.
From the outside it seems impossible, even with 12-man pitching staffs, to spend sufficient time with every hitter. Granted, equal time may be a seriously sub-optimal goal. But asking one ex-major leaguer to work as a technical and psychological instructor for half a team seems, as others have pointed, essentially impossible.
Hitting's about as specialized a skill as playing golf and I don't think many (if any) swing coaches have even 10 professionals in their portfolio, plus you have short game and/or putting specialists sub-dividing the coaching landscape.
An interesting analogy. It probably goes deeper than that once you start including the Euro tour and the various sub-tours though. Since it's an individual sport, the very top teachers can sell themselves to an elite clientele but once you're outside the top 5 swing coaches or so, I suspect the client lists get pretty long.
But, yeah. It's always mystifying that somehow guys who weren't good hitters/pitchers somehow become good coaches but it's doubly mystifying that somebody like Greg Gross would have any insight into how Ryan Howard should swing. He might of course -- just because he had no power doesn't mean he doesn't understand how to swing for power. He might have even understood it as a player but, being Greg Gross, swinging for power still would have meant little more than warning track flyballs so he went with an approach that would be a lot more successful for him.
I suppose it's "natrual" to think that somebody like Gross would be a better hitting coach than Rob Deer but it seems common-sensible that you'd want Gross working with your slap hitters and a guy with power working with your power hitters. Next thing you know they'll have catchers as pitching coaches! :-)
Scott Fletcher as a hitting coach is pretty hilarious.
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