Friday, August 26, 2011
The Worst Coaches in Boston Sports History, Part IV
Reader AM adds another to his list:
Reader AM adds another to his list:
Here's one I should have mentioned - a hitting coach, Rick Burleson. He's a big part of the reason why Butch Hobson really was an awful manager. The Sox had just brought up two extraordinarily gifted young hitters, both left-handers with great power and remarkable patience for their ages, both incidentally native New Englanders. So to coach them, in came The Rooster, a righty with no power and not much of an eye who got by on and believed in aggressiveness at the plate. Both Mo Vaughan and Phil Plantier wound up back in the minors, and neither I think was ever quite the hitter he should have been because their selectivity didn't develop as it might have.
