October 31, 2005
Pena to the Yankees?
The Daily News is reporting that the Yankees are interested in hiring Tony Pena as a coach.
The second benefit to adding Pena is that the Bombers currently are without a specialized catchers coach. Bench coach Joe Girardi worked with Jorge Posada, John Flaherty and the other catchers during spring training and continued that responsibility during the season, but he has left to become the manager of the Marlins.
Typically, a team might look for a catching specialist to be its bullpen coach, but the Bombers are leaning toward giving that job to Joe Kerrigan - who has been a pitching coach for three teams - so they'd need to address the need elsewhere. That's where Pena, who won four Gold Gloves and played 1,950 games at catcher during his 18 seasons, comes in.
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Tony would be a good addition. He'd have to congrat-
ulate Derek Jeter on his 2nd consecutive AL Gold
Glove. Just reported by The New York Post. I couldn't
resist posting the news. He had the 2nd highest defens-
ive rating for AL shortstops. Said the award is voted on
by AL coaches.