I make no bones about the fact that I think Terry Bradshaw as a Hitting Coach was a DM Crony move all the way.
His promotion to the majors was, frankly, a disaster. And his time as the same in the Minor leagues was the same.
Besides Salvy and Whit, I'd be interested if anyone can name a single Royal who "outhit" his projections. And for every player that someone can say exceeded projections, I can name at least 5 players who hit well below projections.
The reality is he got lucky and was 'the guy' in the Minors when we threw tons of batting talent at him. Hosmer, Moustakas, Colon, Hunter, Bubba and let us not forget Chase and the others. So many that never lived up to their projections...
I'd argue that a big league hitting coach really isn't that important and just like he maybe was lucky to be the guy in the minors with all the talent, he hasn't exactly had big time bats to work with in the big leagues. At the same time, Soler and Dozier both had huge seasons under Bradshaw. I'm not saying he's good or bad, but I just don't think hitting coaches at the top level are especially important. Not like a big league pitching coach is anyway. The minor league development team is WAY more important to a franchise.
Good point on Soler and Dozier - at least for their big years in 19'.
And I'd agree with you that hitters develop more in the minors than in the majors, that is exactly my point. TB oversaw all of those hitters I mentioned in the Minors (I kept it to the 1st rounders) and when they got to the bigs they were good, but still, as I recall, did not exceed projections.
So essentially, we drafted some players for Offense (why else would you draft a C in the 1st?) and some of them (namely Moose and Hos) made it to the show. All of the rest of them took longer than projected or wound up hitting under projections
I make no bones about the fact that I think Terry Bradshaw as a Hitting Coach was a DM Crony move all the way.
His promotion to the majors was, frankly, a disaster. And his time as the same in the Minor leagues was the same.
Besides Salvy and Whit, I'd be interested if anyone can name a single Royal who "outhit" his projections. And for every player that someone can say exceeded projections, I can name at least 5 players who hit well below projections.
The reality is he got lucky and was 'the guy' in the Minors when we threw tons of batting talent at him. Hosmer, Moustakas, Colon, Hunter, Bubba and let us not forget Chase and the others. So many that never lived up to their projections...
I'd argue that a big league hitting coach really isn't that important and just like he maybe was lucky to be the guy in the minors with all the talent, he hasn't exactly had big time bats to work with in the big leagues. At the same time, Soler and Dozier both had huge seasons under Bradshaw. I'm not saying he's good or bad, but I just don't think hitting coaches at the top level are especially important. Not like a big league pitching coach is anyway. The minor league development team is WAY more important to a franchise.
Good point on Soler and Dozier - at least for their big years in 19'.
And I'd agree with you that hitters develop more in the minors than in the majors, that is exactly my point. TB oversaw all of those hitters I mentioned in the Minors (I kept it to the 1st rounders) and when they got to the bigs they were good, but still, as I recall, did not exceed projections.
So essentially, we drafted some players for Offense (why else would you draft a C in the 1st?) and some of them (namely Moose and Hos) made it to the show. All of the rest of them took longer than projected or wound up hitting under projections
Sure, but that's why they overhauled the development system. I don't think Bradshaw is much to blame there given that he was the AAA hitting coach.