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Originally Posted by petegz28
Well we fired Setizer and now have 2 hitting coaches and we are hitting twice as bad.
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thats also just one data point.
We'd probably have to have some kind of huge study spanning many years over every team, and see if there's a correlation between hitting coach and performance in the first 2 or 3 years, independent of any particular team's ability to draft well/poorly. You'd probably have to say "ok, if you OPS .850 in your last year of AAA, we expect X, if you OPS .800 we expect Y, etc. Do we have a few hitting coaches who are able to consistently beat those numbers in a statistically significant way". That would be a ton of work.