Schadenfreude wrote:Randle McMurphy wrote:Michael Bradley wrote:Managers are interchangeable, but coaches are important.
The conduct of most MLB teams (this isn't just the Jays at all) would seem to suggest completely differently. Coaches are viewed as expendable, they're paid cheaply, and there is a lot of movement every year among them.
I grant that you could have good/bad coaches or coaches that affecting some guys more positively than others (like Mottola with Rasmus or Murphy with Bautista), but there's really no way for any of us to differentiate between them on the whole.
You could also make the argument that coaching "stability" might not be the best thing for an organization with a history of mediocrity/failure.
Heh, but as we've had a history of mediocrity/failure with very little coaching stability, it's pretty hard to tell cause and effect there.
Just playing the devil's advocate. I obviously don't think it makes much of a tangible difference either way.