Mark McGwire expected to come in Los Angeles Dodgers as hitting coach – MLB Update
Mark McGwire is expected to come to the Los Angeles Dodgers franchise as hitting coach after spending some two years in the St Louis Cardinals.
“He gets to drive to work every day. He can watch his six kids grow up. I thought it was a no-brainer for him, I’m a huge fan of Mark’s and what he’s done in his career. He’s been huge for St. Louis. He’s done a lot for us. It’s going to be a loss, no doubt about it,” Cardinals’ talented player Skip Schumaker said.
“I figure something like this would happen when they both needed hitting coaches. I knew his contract was up. It made sense for a lot of reasons,” Schumaker said.
Sources say that he saw an opportunity to become the Dodgers’ hitting coach and decided immediately to come here. McGwire’s family lives in Los Angeles and this is another factor that he is coming in South Los Angeles franchise.
McGwire is a highly talented individual and knows various aspects of the game quite well. He is one of those Major League coaches who possess some large experience and at the same times knows players with every characteristic of their deficiencies and strengths.
His time with the Cardinals’ has given him enough experience to learn the true tactics of the game. Not only he improved a lot as a coach but the Cardinals’ also received many new hitting strategies for their players from him.
As a player in the Oakland Athletics and in the Cardinals’ roster, while later as a hitting coach in the league makes things slightly easier for McGwire to learn the game with persistence.
He is a twelve-time All Star and two-time World Series champion. A Gold Glove winner and three-time Silver Slugger award winner, McGwire was an established player in the Major League and now regarded as one of the most talented coaches in the game.
Meanwhile, experts say that his new relationship with the Dodgers will also make things very optimistic. They did not show good results in the recent past season but with McGwire in-charge as hitting coach, it is quite possible that their results will be lot better in the coming days.
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