Thoughts on the Arizona Diamondbacks’ new coaches

I was particularly impressed with Ron Gardenhire’s arrival as bench coach. Torey Lovullo is not exactly raw and inexperienced: he’ll certainly have learned a lot as part of the Red Sox coaching staff. But Gardenhire brings more than two thousand games of managerial experience, and that’s a wealth of veteran knowledge on which Lovullo can lean in his rookie season as a manager himself. I’m quite surprised that the D-backs were able to talk Gardenhire back into the dugout, but it appears he and Lovullo are on the same page of baseball philosophy. Our manager said, “I kept a mental notebook of guys that would be candidates. He sat down with me and the answers that he was giving were completely aligned with what I was thinking. The concepts were right on.”

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