Being the Hitting Coach for the lineup put together on Team USA in this year’s World Baseball Classic sounds like one of the cushier jobs ever created. When Mookie Betts, Mike Trout, Paul Goldschmidt, Nolan Arenado, & Co. lead the line on a daily basis, there’s only so much coaching you truly need to put out there to see results that are among the best on the planet.
While that’s technically what Ken Griffey, Jr. is up to at the moment, it seems that title is as much a formality as anything. Junior’s in the dugout representing his country as much as he is watching video and tweaking grips.