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HoJo, not Rickey, to coach Mets hitters
2007-07-13 10:43
by Bob Timmermann

Howard Johnson will be the Mets new hitting coach and Rickey Henderson will be the first base coach, Tim Brown reports on Yahoo! Sports.

Johnson replaces Rick Down, who was fired in the Great Batting Coach Purge of 2007, along with Arizona hitting coach Kevin Seitzer. Down, Seitzer, and Eddie Murray have all been exiled to a top secret hitting re-education camp in North Dakota. Further attempts to determine its location have been rebuffed by MLB officials.

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2007-07-13 11:04:21
1.   Icaros
I'm hoping for the day when a hitting coach is fired and replaced by no one.
2007-07-13 11:10:06
2.   Shaun P
1 I'd like to see the day that a hitting coach is fired and replaced by 4 or 5 guys, each one to work with a different kind of hitter on the roster.

This is why MLB needs to let Mark Cuban in the door. He'd do this in a second.

2007-07-13 12:50:47
3.   El Lay Dave
The "top secret hitting re-education camp in North Dakota" in the same location as where Carl Showalter buried the money.
2007-07-13 14:42:10
4.   Cliff Corcoran
I feel as though the assignments for Rickey & HoJo were obvious from the start. Odd that they took their time to make it official.

Anyway, the Yankees sort of have two hitting coaches with Don Mattingly the bench coach having been the hitting coach last year and all 12 of the Yankee position players having been with the team last year as well.

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