The Giants announced that Hitting Coach Hensley "Bam Bam" Meulens will be their new Bench Coach with longtime Bench Coach Ron Wotus moving to 3B coach. Somewhat surprisingly, 2017 3B Coach Phil Nevin was not reassigned in the organization which means he is out of a job after missing out on the Phillies Manager position.
This seems to be a clear signal that the Giants view Meulens as the likely successor to Bruce Bochy, probably when Bochy's current contract is finished and he is reassigned to a front office job. It also probably cements Ron Wotus as a career coach rather than a future manager which has to be a disappointment for him.
The Giants now have openings for a Hitting Coach, Pitching Coach and Bullpen Coach. Stay tuned.
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Too bad for Wotus --you really don't know how a guy will manage until he does it.
ReplyDeleteThen its tough to evaluate with all the things that can go wrong beyond a his control.
If you judge Roberts only by his handling of pitchers in WS game 2 it might not be genius, Why? Because it backfired, although it's the way it has worked for him all year.
Ultimately the players determine the outcome and if the manager keeps them in places where they can succeed -- where they have succeeded -- the best team will win most of the time, but not everytime.
It caught up with Roberts and Jansen: maybe overmanaging for one and the law of averages for the other.
I'd like Wotus to get a shot. Maybe he will. Start lower than MLB.
if the giants have another mediocre year, they might totally clean house from baer on down and bring in people from the outside.
ReplyDeleteI would hope it would be more than a knee jerk reaction to another bad season. Remember the post Bonds era? What if ownership had "cleaned house" and fired Brian Sabean and Bruce Bochy like at least 90% of fans wanted them to?
DeleteYou have to look at the overall direction of the organization and that means looking deep into the farm system and seeing if there is a game plan for the future. I admit the jury is still out on that. I would like to see another draft and how some of the teenage prospects in the low minors do as they move up before declaring the current management a lost cause.
ownership has to stop delaying the inevitable and rebuild and it might require cleaning house and starting fresh.
DeleteI agree DrB, fans are not the best judge of when to rebuild. Fans wanted to trade away Cain, Lincecum, wanted other draft prospects than Posey or Bumgarner. I don't know how many times I got booed on a Giants watering hole for openly celebrating every Sabean 2-year extension, while everyone else was holding a funeral.
DeleteI don't see a rebuild as inevitable. Both Posey and Bumgarner are still young enough for more good years of production. I don't see a rebuild happening until they are gone. But hopefully, when they decide to rebuild, they clean house, which is not what they did after Bonds, they kept on signing players "for the next era" who didn't pan out, like Zito and Rowand, and passing on good FA players like Vlad.
It's hard to judge a farm system when you get mostly picks in the 20's. But I think we have to judge the Beede and Bickford picks as negatives as to their abilities right now, but I really like the picks in recent drafts. You also have to wonder with Duvall and Castilla doing well for the Reds, as to who is doing the talent evaluations, how did they miss so badly? Unfortunately, you need to give the draft time to mature and ripen.