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November 03, 2005

Staff To Be Completed

From Newsday:

The Yankees also will hire Ron Guidry as pitching coach, Tony Peña as first-base coach and Joe Kerrigan as bullpen coach, and it all could be announced today.

Having Gator in charge of all pitchers and Kerrigan in the pen is like having a million dollars in your ING Direct Orange Savings Account and five million dollars in your Commerce Bank no interest checking account.

It's not that either investment is a bad thing - in fact, it's nice to have. But, it's not the best way to allocate your resources across your open options.

I have a feeling about this decision. I think that Torre believes that Guidry has Mattingly-like status with the fans and media. And, as such, he would not be attacked by certain parts of the front office. Therefore, picking Guidry as the pitching coach takes away one task that Torre doesn't want to do - meaning having to defend his pitching coach all the time. (Kerrigan, being a Cashman guy, might be more open game in terms of having to take shots.)

Maybe this was part of the placement process?

Posted by Steve Lombardi at November 3, 2005 10:46 AM

Comments

Or LA. Lightning as the "face" and Kerrigan as the behind the scenes "doer".

Posted by: rbj [TypeKey Profile Page] at November 3, 2005 02:05 PM