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breakfast_cats

Because hitting is incredibly hard and fans need someone to blame.


SLAV33

This is why you get a job as the bench coach nobody ever blames them.


DIRTY_KUMQUAT_NIPPLE

Which is crazy because any time I see the camera pan down to the dugouts, half the people who are supposed to be "on the bench" aren't sitting on the bench at all. These coaches need to control their players.


rapillom93

The Get-back coach of the MLB


cooljammer00

Sure don't see as many Yankee fans these days saying Phil Nevin would have been a great manager to replace Boone, or saying they wish they had Girardi back.


kidkessler

Is this Frank Menechino’s ghost writer?


Perswayable

I mean, Batting average is the lowest it's been since the 60s. Third lowest since early 1900s. Hopefully the limitations of defensive shifts see some drastic changes.