Paine: Does a good hitter make for a good hitting coach?
From Neil Paine at FiveThirtyEight on December 11, 2015:
Barry Bonds is back in baseball. The Miami Marlins announced Friday that Bonds will become their hitting coach, joining new manager Don Mattingly’s staff.1 So now we’ll get to obsessively analyze Bonds’ proportions all over again, this time in arguably the majors’ worst uniform.
Bonds is a lightning rod because of his role in MLB’s steroid era, but I’m not here to re-litigate how much he cheated or what his punishment should be. The guy was pretty terrific at hitting a baseball long before we knew what BALCO was.
My question is simple: Does a good hitter make for a good hitting coach?
Read the full article here: http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/theres-no-reason-to-think-barry-bonds-can-coach-like-he-could-hit/
Originally published: December 11, 2015. Last Updated: December 11, 2015.