coaching wise as I have never heard and interview by him and he has never coached. What ever he brings to the table I doubt will be enough to turn the season around. What ever we get from this team I think we could have gotten from BoMel.

which is a good start. Something like 90% of managers played as catchers in the bigs. My dad and I were talking recently about how Snyder’s gotta be a future manager.

he was a catcher playing for the A’s, Royals, Tigers and Phillies. He was a career .218 hitter who was know much more for his glove than for his bat. (Baseball-Ref. Page)

I, for one, am pretty excited about this hire for a couple of reasons:

1. In his previous position he was charged with developing the players that you see on the field today. This leads me to believe that he has a good working knowledge of our young players (knows their weaknesses, strengths, etc.). Should come in handy as Melvin seemed to not utilize (or at least underutilize) our players in certain situations.

2. He was a catcher, a position with a good history of becoming managers in the big leagues. Just think about the manager that brought us to the World Series…..

3. Hes an outsider from the inside. He has been just far enough removed from the team to not really have any responsibility for the lackluster season to date but is close enough to really know their ins and outs.

Call me optimistic, but this may be the best move the front office has made in a while….

If the Hinch experiment doesn’t work, will there be a front office shakeup?

im really taken aback. seems almost like this was being setup for a while now – since last season – and it was a matter of timing to make the change.