October 30, 2005
Replacing the Legend
Roger McDowell gets the nod as Atlanta's new pitching coach.
"We are absolutely thrilled to add Roger to our staff," Braves manager Bobby Cox said. "Roger was a great competitor as a player -- he started, he relieved and he even fought through arm problems, so he comes in a with great level of experience that our pitchers will learn from."
McDowell's worked in the Dodgers farm system as a pitching coach. The Las Vegas affiliate finished last in 2005, and the pitching stats looked really bad.
McDowell's great strength as a pitcher was keeping the ball in the park. In his career, he allowed just 50 home runs in 1050 innings. We'll see if he can pass that skill on to the Braves pitchers.
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HAHAHA. That was a GREAT Seinfeld episode....with Keith Hernandez.
Pat Mahomes is still pitching?!
And yeah, I'm sure the Braves are pleased as punch to replace Mazzone with, well, anyone.