Is it odd or puzzling to anyone else that Eric Hinske is the Angels hitting coach

[beatlesrule]

and is a career .249 hitter with 137 career home runs?  Sorry if this is a Craig but it's both puzzling and fascinating how a player with such a low batting average gets a job with a big market MLB team.  Imagine that interview?  So I see your career batting average was only .249, how will you be able to help the hitters on the Angels? 

What do you think his response was and how in holy hell did he get the job?  More incompetence but this ORG?  I know the bullpen sucks and that's not his job but it's still amazing to me that he was actually able to get hired.

[Stradling]

Because what he accomplished in the bigs has nothing to do with his ability to coach.  

[Docwaukee]

zero correlation between major league ability and coaching ability.  

[zenmaster]

Do you think tiger woods golf coach could beat him during the late 90s / early 2000s? Actually he probably couldn’t beat most if not any of the pros. 

[Blarg]

Ted Williams was a terrible batting instructor. 

[beatlesrule]

Still though, you'd think a batting coach should have at least hit .300 or close to it no?  In theory then, Jeff Mathis could become a hitting coach even though he is a god awful hitter correct?

[Dick Enberg]

Eric was also the hitting coach for the Cubbies from 2014 through 2017

 

[Dick B Back]

4 minutes ago, Dick Enberg said:

Eric was also the hitting coach for the Cubbies from 2014 through 2017

 

Made Maddon look good who we know made Sosh look good.

[Stradling]

8 minutes ago, beatlesrule said:

Still though, you'd think a batting coach should have at least hit .300 or close to it no?  In theory then, Jeff Mathis could become a hitting coach even though he is a god awful hitter correct?

Correct

[Docwaukee]

8 minutes ago, beatlesrule said:

Still though, you'd think a batting coach should have at least hit .300 or close to it no?  In theory then, Jeff Mathis could become a hitting coach even though he is a god awful hitter correct?

sure.  check out who the mlb hitting coaches are. 

https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/List_of_current_Major_League_Baseball_coaching_staffs

[Docwaukee]

actually, the best players often make bad coaches because they can't relate to those with less talent.  

[Inside Pitch]

57 minutes ago, beatlesrule said:

and is a career .249 hitter with 137 career home runs?  Sorry if this is a Craig but it's both puzzling and fascinating how a player with such a low batting average gets a job with a big market MLB team.  Imagine that interview?  So I see your career batting average was only .249, how will you be able to help the hitters on the Angels? 

What do you think his response was and how in holy hell did he get the job?  More incompetence but this ORG?  I know the bullpen sucks and that's not his job but it's still amazing to me that he was actually able to get hired.

Walt Hriniak couldn't hit to save his balls..... probably why he learned everything there was to know about hitting and became a legendary batting instructor.   Dave Duncan, the dean of pitching coaches.. never pitched a day in his life.  He was a catcher.   Like Doc said -- zero correlation....

 

[beatlesrule]

10 minutes ago, Dochalo said:

sure.  check out who the mlb hitting coaches are. 

https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/List_of_current_Major_League_Baseball_coaching_staffs

How in the world is Chili Davis not our hitting coach?  Terry Bradshaw for the Royals LOL!!  I only think of the football player.  The M's have Edgar Martinez....they also have an awesome record.  Hmmm

[Troll Daddy]

Probably the best hitting coach in Angel history 

Name one better 

[Dick B Back]

3 hours ago, Troll Daddy said:

Probably the best hitting coach in Angel history 

Name one better 

Yep, he was so good that this happened.

 

[Vegas Halo Fan]

4 hours ago, Dochalo said:

zero correlation between major league ability and coaching ability.  

Charlie Lau was one of the greatest hitting coaches ever, and he was a .255 career hitter with 16 home runs in an 11-year major league career.

[EDinTUSTIN]

5 hours ago, The Boogie Man said:

Because what he accomplished in the bigs has nothing to do with his ability to coach.  

Then there are those who couldn't hit or coach. To be fair, however, you could be a wizard at coaching, but when you have the likes of Blash,Young, Calhoun Valbuena, Pujols, Cozart, Marte, or Maldonado to work with you are rather screwed.

[ten ocho recon scout]

1 hour ago, EDinTUSTIN said:

Then there are those who couldn't hit or coach. To be fair, however, you could be a wizard at coaching, but when you have the likes of Blash,Young, Calhoun Valbuena, Pujols, Cozart, Marte, or Maldonado to work with you are rather screwed.

Tustin Ed sighting!

Agreed. This is what it all comes down to. The best coach in the world cant do anything with poor talent. And even q guy like Hatcher can work with guys and get them to all bat .300...if theyre the right guys.

[Chuck]

Rod Carew was the worst hitting coach.

[nate]

13 hours ago, Dochalo said:

sure.  check out who the mlb hitting coaches are. 

https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/List_of_current_Major_League_Baseball_coaching_staffs

based on this list, it appears that being fat is probably the largest thing qualifying someone for a hitting coach position

[Stradling]

Hinske and Maddon worked wonders with Heyward in 2016 and Ben Zobrist in 2017.  

[Stradling]

Just now, Mickeym said:

Just like Hinske and Scioscia are doing with Kole Calhoun. Looks like Hayward is having a better season with Hinske gone. Maddon doesn't  bat Hayward 4th like Scioscia continues to bat Pujols.

 

No he batted Swarber first or second quite a bit of the year with a sub .200 batting average. 

[Stradling]

The point was Hinske had young players in their prime in Chicago, it wasn’t some cool guy magic potion from Maddon. 

[Stradling]

3 minutes ago, Mickeym said:

 

Um ok.  I too don’t like auto correct.  Yea and Rizzo has hit worse.   You must be new to this baseball thing.  

[Blarg]

6 hours ago, Mickeym said:

Looks like Maddon made Hinske look good, just like he made Scioscia look good.

Maddon never went to a World Series game managing the Cubs without Hinske.