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Originally Posted by Archie F. Swin
While Yost is deserving of criticism, I will be pissed if GMDM is permitted to hire a third skipper. Moore and his talent evaluators must go.
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I think Moore's talent evaluators are fine, actually. They are identifying talent.
Where it is failing is development. Starting pitchers have hit a wall at AA. Hitters have hit a wall in the majors.
After seeing the moronic comments of Jack Maloof - the guy who spent the past 5 years as the minor league hitting coordinator, the guy who sets the tone for hitting development for the entire system and who has ultimate say on what a hitter does - I have to place the hitting development blame at his feet.
I'm not sure what the situation is with his counterpart on the pitching side of things. I know at one time, they made a change to Rick KNapp, but I think he's been gone a year or so now.
I believe Knapp was replaced by Steve Foster late last year, but I can't confirm what Knapp is up to these days. Bill Fischer, who has been here since Moore arrived, is the Sr. Pitching Instructor. Haven't heard good things about him.
Basically, the consistent problem I've heard with development is that they take a cookie-cutter approach with pitchers and hitters.
All pitchers are pushed to be FB-CB-CH pitchers, using the same off-day program (though I think they've relaxed a little on the long toss/conditioning programs). Hitters are all preached the middle of the field approach.