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[Jokersgoon]

Joe Frisaro ‏@JoeFrisaro
#Marlins name Tino Martinez hitting coach

[BenderRobot]

I accept!

[mrchainsaw]

Certainly did not see this coming.

[BenderRobot]

Hopefully he can turn Logan Morrison into what he [Tino] had as his career averages [.271/27/102]. I think that'd be a pretty good line for Morrison.

[dim]

The Marlins are going full nostalgia on me right now. First Redmond as manager, now Martinez as hitting coach. Tom Glavine for pitching coach, Mike Lowell for third base coach, and Mike Mordecai for bench coach please.

[pollyvonwog]

ummmm good!

[Entendu101]

Tino Martinez? I haven't heard that name since I played baseball video games in the early 2000's

[canada-marlin24]

Did not see this coming but it sounds pretty good.

[FishFan88]

What is there to know about Tino Martinez?

[Erick]

This irrelevant news is exciting.

[Piazza31]

Really? Was Paul O'Neil unavailable?

Not sure how to feel about this. Has he been in the coaching aspect of the game?

Should have hired Canseco or Bonds FFS. Arenr they looking for jobs?

[Dr Beinfest]

Someone who actually hit well in his career! Yay!

Can teach them how to play defense while he's at it.

[Ema2R]

Great news!

[LordMagnus]

Stanton is hitting coach. Either you hit the ball, or you will act as his bat.

[BenderRobot]

Stanton is hitting coach. Either you hit the ball, or you will act as his bat.

Morrison's hard head would be a pretty awesome sweet spot.

[gizmo]

Someone who actually hit well in his career! Yay!

Can teach them how to play defense while he's at it.

Yeah this. I like this hire a lot.

[Jokersgoon]

The Tino hiring came from the top perhaps Loria? Not Redmond's.

[DolphinJohn]

Some of you f**kers will never be happy.

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[BenderRobot]

The Tino hiring came from the top perhaps Loria? Not Redmond's.

Ah sh*t, he's Loria's guy?
f***, our guys are gonna hit like .210 this year combined.

[Sirspud]

This signing is another bad move by the Marlins organization. With the way this team hit last year, Tino should definitely have a bat himself.

[BroncoBob27]

The Tino hiring came from the top perhaps Loria? Not Redmond's.

Ex-Yankee with no coaching experience. Sounds like a Loria hiring to me.

Guess we should wait and see how he does before we pass judgement.

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Can't possibly be worse than Perez.

271/344/471/815 over 15 years indicates that he has a pretty good clue about how to hit. His peak year was 296/371/577/948. 503 PAs per year over 16 years of mostly full-time play. Perez never had more than 330 PAs in 13 years and averaged 157/year.

Nepotism sucks. Hiring actual talent is better. We don't know for sure that Martinez can coach what he obviously knows how to do, but he has to be an improvement on total uselessness, no matter how bad he may be at coaching.

[hovertical]

maybe he can PH in a spot and still give that classic Helmsian "professional at bat"....


I KEED....i realize the results in the bigs don't always translate to being able to coach well but Tino was always fairly highly regarded as a leader (i.e. someone who SHOULD make a solid coach) and he could handle a bat as well. It's a pretty good roll of the dice on this one. I had hope McGwire would have come here since it always seemed like whoever went to the Cards under his tutelage just raked.

Not mad at this hiring at all though.

[Erick]

Can't possibly be worse than Perez.

271/344/471/815 over 15 years indicates that he has a pretty good clue about how to hit. His peak year was 296/371/577/948. 503 PAs per year over 16 years of mostly full-time play. Perez never had more than 330 PAs in 13 years and averaged 157/year.

Nepotism sucks. Hiring actual talent is better. We don't know for sure that Martinez can coach what he obviously knows how to do, but he has to be an improvement on total uselessness, no matter how bad he may be at coaching.

Playing days have nothing to do with ability to coach.

[DolphinJohn]

Playing days have nothing to do with ability to coach.

Who would you rather see as hitting coach, Erick?
Someone that is attainable, that is.

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