RealGM

now let's see if the yankees could get a hitting coach that actually has experience with mlb pitching

If Ichiro decides to retire, hire him back as the hitting coach.

Brian Cashman "Sorry Kevin, but I had to blame my sucktasticness on someone else, so you're fired"

Slamm Goodbody wrote:

Soon to hit your 25 cent mark down bin at your local 2nd hand book store.

long was just a scapegoat

the talent on this team just isn't that good

Pharmcat wrote:long was just a scapegoat

the talent on this team just isn't that good

Yeah but Long really didn't help himself either. Unlike how the Yanks managed to get blood from a stone with their pitching plug-ins (kudos to Larry Rothschild), Long managed to keep underwhelming hitters underwhelming, they weren't able to produce runs, their OBP was sub par and there was just no life all the way around with any of their hitters (other than Solarte for about a quarter of the season).

Well looks like Dave Magadan is out of consideration as rumors that the Yanks didn't like something he said during some interview (perhaps with another team).

Will this help? Nobody knows, but at least we'll finally get to find out if the crappy hitting was really Long's fault or not.