The San Francisco Giants now have a new President of Baseball Operations in Farhan Zaidi. Zaidi has a number of issues to tackle, but could one of them be getting a new hitting coach?
The hitting coach position seems to be one of the most disposable positions in baseball. When teams are hitting well, the hitting coach barely gets recognized.
However, when the team is not hitting, it seems the target on that hitting coach’s back gets bigger with every strike out.
It is an unstable position. And, apparently it is one of the quickest positions to replace:
When the Cards moved on from hitting coach John Mabry, they removed the hitting coach with the longest tenure (six years).