Baseball Musings
Baseball Musings
April 30, 2008
Mix and Match

Evan Grant notes the Rangers have a very strange coaching staff, as Ron Washington was forced to retain coaches hired by two former managers:

These are all strong baseball minds with strong backgrounds, but they've also been thrown together in a small lockerroom and asked to work together. It's kind of like Big Brother only without Julie Chen.

It's not too much of a leap to think the same kind tensions and frustrations that exist on a reality TV show also exist in the Rangers' clubhouse. Put the best people together in such a situation and you test them. People struggle to communicate with one another, and it makes for great TV. Coaches and manager struggle to communicate with each other and with the club, and it makes for a train wreck.

If players see a coaching staff that is struggling to work together, how do you think it's going to impact their play?

Brief answer: Whatever it is, it's not good.

Oh, and when changes come, it's usually the manager and coaches who get changed, not he players.

So here they are a month into the season and the coaching staff has found itself in a leaky lifeboat searching for a place to land. They have two choices: Start rowing together or sink to the bottom.

There is definitely something dysfunctional about the Texas team. This is going to end badly for a number of people, I'm afraid.


Posted by David Pinto at 11:09 AM | Management | TrackBack (0)
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Look at this timeline for the Ranger's 1B situation since the past offseason.

http://www.rangers.scottlucas.com/archives/2008/04/botts_dfaed_she.html

Completely dysfunctional.

Posted by: Trebor at April 30, 2008 02:17 PM
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