Dave Hansen is the new Angels hitting coach

[Tank]

What blows my mind is how many people on here think a guy who was a good hitter will necessarily be a good coach (and vice versa). Like all the people who want Tim Salmon to become the hitting coach, or Chuck Finley to be the pitching coach. I'd venture to guess there is zero correlation between the stats a guy put up as a player and his teaching ability.

 

see: johnson, magic; gretzky, wayne

[Tank]

Man Figgy looks like hell.

 

that picture needs a dialogue bubble with him saying "It's a trap!"

[Tank]

hansen was supposed to have lunch with me today. he skipped out, and now i know why.

 

 

it's tough to eat at olive garden by yourself when you're sitting at a round table for six.

[ettin]

hansen was supposed to have lunch with me today. he skipped out, and now i know why.

it's tough to eat at olive garden by yourself when you're sitting at a round table for six.

I always knew you were into young boy bands.

[Mark68]

I was hoping for Ted Williams. 

Can we thaw him from his cryogenic "sleep"?

[Angel Oracle]

Just have DiSar be a roving instructor in the minors.

[mrwicked]

mmm bop.

[Jobu]

What blows my mind is how many people on here think a guy who was a good hitter will necessarily be a good coach (and vice versa). Like all the people who want Tim Salmon to become the hitting coach, or Chuck Finley to be the pitching coach. I'd venture to guess there is zero correlation between the stats a guy put up as a player and his teaching ability.

Might even be a negative correlation. Some guys are so freakishly talented that they probably had to think less about hitting or pitching than some 4A scrub who spent his entire playing career looking for an edge.

[Chris]

Coaching staff filling out.

 

Now get Greinke, Heyward, Zobrist, & Murphy and we're good.

[NorCal Halo]

Did Tank have lunch with Hansen before the announcement?

[TroutBaseball]

What blows my mind is how many people on here think a guy who was a good hitter will necessarily be a good coach (and vice versa). Like all the people who want Tim Salmon to become the hitting coach, or Chuck Finley to be the pitching coach. I'd venture to guess there is zero correlation between the stats a guy put up as a player and his teaching ability.

 

In fact you want guys who lacked the highest form of natural ability because that means they had to learn and work their butt off to play professionally.  They know what they did to make themselves useful.

[Tank]

Did Tank have lunch with Hansen before the announcement?

 

no; he bailed on me unexpectedly.

 

 

jerk.

[2112]

I was hoping for Jim Eppard myself.  Dude did a good job and got let go.  Go figure. 

[Troll Daddy]

It's a good signing for now ... just might be short term. Probably a two year deal.

[Jobu]

I was hoping for Jim Eppard myself. Dude did a good job and got let go. Go figure.

What would Scioscia call him? He's already got Eppler to be "Eppy" so this was a non-starter.

[tomsred]

I was hoping for Jim Eppard myself.  Dude did a good job and got let go.  Go figure. 

 

He's too busy keeping track of his wife on the TV show Orange County Housewives (the current one, not the several before her).

Edited November 5, 2015 by tomsred

[mopuddin]

I wonder who everyone here wanted. Nando wanted Ibanez. Anyone else have a guy they would have preferred? Hansen was the hitting coach in 2014 when Baylor was hurt and they seemed to do pretty well.

 

oh cool. i was about to go look up the guy who took over for baylor when he was injured. my thought when baylor was let go was that this guy would be the best option, so i came to this thread looking for that info. i was not let down. rad.

[Vegas Halo Fan]

i was gonna say bruce lee, but it would have been tough with him being dead. At least ted would just have to be defrosted.

He would just be a talking head.

[ELEVEN]

He would just be a talking head.

Stop making sense.

[Homebrewer]

Hensy.

as in:

Hensy and Eppsy been working hard on finding some offense, while Nagsy has been working on conditioning with Skaggsy.