Given the fact he hit third despite a slender build and a line-drive approach, he would be an excellent choice to help David Murphy become a 21st century version of Greer.

Any interest in Steve Henderson? Who else is available?

One works on swing mechanics, one works video and scouting reports the other approach and plate discipline.

The work he’s done with the hitters sent down to AAA (Davis and Cruz as the main examples) is enough for me to want to give him a chance. I think having someone familiar with the players in the system would end up better than going out and bringing someone new in.

I’m already on board with bringing Coolbaugh up. I think it might be better if our new hitting coach already has some familiarity with our young hitters and those who will hopefully be coming up soon.

Bringing Greer on board though seems more like another figurehead installation (a la bringing in Nolan) than anything else, and Evan basically admits as much. Maybe he could bring the right message to this club given the kind of hitter he was in his career, but IMO the last thing this team needs is another figurehead for the players and the media to latch onto. This is a fucking baseball club, not a political party.

or any of the other minor league guys would be so great. They’ve some limited success once or twice with one or two guys, but beyond that we don’t really know a whole lot about them. Sure, they’re worth a serious look, but if our minor league system is continually spitting out guys with no plate discipline, to me that’s not something in their favor.

Really, though, the problem is the talent, not the coaches. The Rangers need to be acquiring guys with better plate discipline. You can’t have everything, though. If you draft for defense you’re not likely to get walk machines.

but I really don’t care much about the first point.

I really think to a very large extent hitters are what they are, especially in regards to patience.

I don’t think this team is going to carry into 2010 any of those guys who have OBPs 100 points better than their batting average. I think everyone on this team is average or worse when it comes to patience. I don’t think you are going to change anyone on this team to super patient.

I imagine the team will have a higher OBP next year, but my guess is that will be more due to regression to the mean of Batting average than anything else.

You get two guys with their hands in this thing there’s more of a chance for crossed signals, bickering, players taking sides, etc….

There’s a reason no one else has 2 hitting coaches (or has a team had 2? I can’t recall)