by Pat LackeyFiled under: Angels, Brewers, Diamondbacks, Padres, Rays
Get your weekend off on the right foot with an eclectic look around the major leagues from Pat Lackey and Andrew Johnson in The Starting Rotation.
The Ace: Scioscia's Legacy
We hear a lot about coaching trees in football and basketball. That's partly because they are so easy to trace, but mostly because a head coach's influence on the hardwood or the gridiron can be so vital to a team's success or failure.
Things don't often work the same way in baseball. Coaches stick with an organization for long stretches rather than follow a lone mentor/coaching wizard/prophet. More significantly, it's a lot harder to take what is essentially a proprietary system you've learned under said mentor, install it somewhere else and have a bunch of success.
There's no West Coast Offense for the national pastime.
Or perhaps we just haven't noticed the latest one just yet.
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