[Park] #MNTwins coaching news: All three hitting coaches — David Popkins, Derek Shomon and Rudy Hernandez — will not return to the staff in 2025. Assistant bench coach Tony Diaz will also not return. All other coaches are currently expected back.
October 2, 2024
[Park] #MNTwins coaching news:
All three hitting coaches — David Popkins, Derek Shomon and Rudy Hernandez — will not return to the staff in 2025. Assistant bench coach Tony Diaz will also not return.
The only other seasons after which 4 or more coaches turned over were 1969, 2014 and 2018 — all of which coincided with managerial changes, which won’t happen this year.
Windmill Watkins survives the purge
More seriously though, this signals to me they’re serious about moving in a different philosophical direction. If this was just Popkins, I’d take it as more of a teaching/communication issue.
But wait a minute, people in this sub earlier in the season were saying it’s the players fault and not the coaches for everyone collectively having a sub-par hitting approach 🤔
Operation fire resident shitter is complete
Fire up the Flex Tape meme… All better now!
Think of all the payroll they can save if they don’t replace them!
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Follow up tweet from Park:
Best I can tell, this is a fairly unprecedented staff turnover without a regime change in [#MNTwins](https://x.com/hashtag/MNTwins?src=hashtag_click) history.
The only other seasons after which 4 or more coaches turned over were 1969, 2014 and 2018 — all of which coincided with managerial changes, which won’t happen this year.
Windmill Watkins survives the purge
More seriously though, this signals to me they’re serious about moving in a different philosophical direction. If this was just Popkins, I’d take it as more of a teaching/communication issue.
But wait a minute, people in this sub earlier in the season were saying it’s the players fault and not the coaches for everyone collectively having a sub-par hitting approach 🤔
Operation fire resident shitter is complete
Fire up the Flex Tape meme… All better now!
Think of all the payroll they can save if they don’t replace them!