Yes and these guys have been playing baseball for years.....if you can't throw you won't suddenly find out how - if you can't run the bases, you won't be able to make the right decisions when the games begin....I get it and that's great he's coaching.....Torre was a great fundamentals teacher and Bernie Williams and Jorge Posada never could run the bases......you either have it or you don't at this point of your career - baseball intellect!! I hope Bobby does well.........
What has your boy ever won? He's had his chances and didn't get it done. Shouldn't you be looking for fresh blood?
My boy Maddon in six years with Tampa has won a pennant, 2 division titles, 1 wild card, two AL manger of the year awards, and one Chuck Tanner MLB manager of the year award. As a bench coach he won a ring with the 2002 Angels. In 6 years he has dwarfed Bobby V's 15 year career.
If Madden was manager of the Sox I would be worried about them. With Bobby V, I look forward to the show.
I agree with this....new voice and face was needed and maybe a little more passion at this point, at least as he drives these things home.
Well if you can't throw "hard" at this point you won't. But it's foolish to say you won't hit the cutoff man if you're forced to work on it. And it's foolish to suggest that you won't get better at running the bases if you work on it. I'm sure once these guys hit the pros and are good, they fall into lazy habits because they're good enough hitters, that that's what they fall back on. Which is why you have to re-train their baseball brain. Carl Crawford said that he liked this year's spring training compared to last year because the players were actually working on things non-stop compared to last year where they hardly did anything. Explain to me how that can't help a team once the season starts? It certainly can't hurt.
Well, I realize that if I list them out, you'll probably try to discredit them one by one so I'll preface you doing that by saying, this list is based on having Valentine coach my Mets and having lived through a Bobby V Era. If given the choice of getting Bobby V back....or my choice of any AL manager over him? I'd take: 1) I'd take Francona, even though he's one year removed. In a second. 2) Jim Leyland 3) Mike Sciocia 4) Joe Maddon 5) Ron Gardenhire 6) Buck Showalter 7) Joe Girardi ---- 8) Probably take Ron Washington. Not really 100% sure of that one.
Just felt like bumping this one up to the top again. Wondered if the Bobby V Bandwagon had gotten any lighter over the last 3-4 weeks.
Yeah the booing showed exactly how well Sox fans understand the game. It's Bobby's fault that the Sox have nobody in the bullpen and nothing at shortstop.
What we liked about Bobby V., his ability to bring young players along while putting other non-stars in a position where they can contribute seems to be keeping the Sox from totally falling out of contention.
