Interesting article about how the next Oriole coaching staff might be younger and more analytical

[Going Underground]

Like Showalter, the coaches are marred by the 115-loss season. What also hurts is that teams are assembling different kinds of coaching staffs.

Gone are the days when a manager who was fired by one club could easily latch on to a job as a bench or third base coach.

The staffs many of the new managers hired this fall feature unfamiliar names, and that’s particularly true among hitting coaches.

According to a fascinating article by SI.com’s Tom Verducci, half of the major league teams have changed their hitting coaches since the end of the 2018 season. Assuming Coolbaugh, who is pictured above, is not retained by the new manager, that will make 16 changes.

Only five major league teams will head into next season with hitting coaches who’ve been in their jobs for at least three seasons.

 

Who is getting hired? Younger coaches who are more schooled in analytics and able to relate to younger players. It’s no secret that teams are shying away from veteran players, managers and coaches.

Perhaps the most intriguing hire is Robert Van Scoyoc, a 32-year-old who never played professionally. He’ll replace Turner Ward with the Los Angeles Dodgers.

Dickerson had at least one interview with another organization, and McDowell was rumored to be heading to Miami, but that never panned out.

 

https://www.baltimorebaseball.com/2018/12/05/18245/

[Redskins Rick]

Buck once explain that look back over history of mlb managers, and he said some times it took a manager getting fired once or twice to reflect on what worked and what didn't work, change what didn't work and keep what worked, and see how that worked out.

I think managers have more control over their coaching staff, so they dont want an experience manager on their staff, and as the next guy in waiting if something failed.

Baseball is also a game of copycats, if a team has success one way, others try and see if they can mimick it.

[atomic]

They have younger GM's so it makes sense that they want to hire younger managers.  I think they will lose out on some good people if they only look at younger coaches.  

[webbrick2010]

Might be younger and more analytical?

Be very hard to assemble a staff that would be older or less analytical than the 2018 staff

[Redskins Rick]

26 minutes ago, atomic said:

They have younger GM's so it makes sense that they want to hire younger managers.  I think they will lose out on some good people if they only look at younger coaches.  

and the same goes, for when they only want to look at old veteran coaches, and ignore the younger blood.

Just like in the NFL. We dont need every team running the wildcat/H Quarter back, or every team running shotgun QB throwing 75% of the plays, or running 75% of the time.

Or in the NBA or college, you try and run the fast transition game with slow peeps.