Gary Gaetti let go -- former Astro Sean Berry new hitting coach

They should fire Patrick Ewing while they are at it. What a tool.

 

So, in April when Ensberg and Ausmus were hitting and the team was 16-8 Gaetti was fine, but he became an idiot in May?

 

bad pr move, GG was liked alot by ppl and helped the rookies last yr alot..

 

Don't forget Tim Bogar. What's he doing now?

 

Isn't he a coach somewhere in the minors now? Maybe not for the Astros system, but for someone.

EDIT: Looks like he is managing in AA for the Akron Aeros, which I believe is a Boston Red Sox team.

 

Thanks.

 

Someone made a good point on why the pitching coach is still around.... Let's see, the whole staff is doing worse, Lidge was nowhere near himself. What gets me is this... apparently Lidge was tipping his pitches and it was ADAM EVERETT that figured it out, not the pitching coach. What's going on here?!?

 

that's very troublesome, i agree. whether it's tipping or mechanics issues, something needs to be done.

 

No, but at the present time, nothing he's doing is improving things, so why not make a change?

 

lol...i love brad ausmus. immune to as much pathetic baseball as he can play, and costing others jobs to boot!

 

I don't really care one way or the other. I'm just amused at how assistant coaches are always the scapegoats regardless of the sport.

 

Yeah - it's the easiest thing to change just to shake things up. The biggest value just comes from the new voice, whether he's better or worse than the old one. These guys always land on their feet somewhere else that is trying to shake things up, so they just kinda rotate around in circles, it seems.

 

Why this move happened, according to Purp:

- Berry better suited to take advantage of new video/computer technology;
- very unhappy w/ the approach at the plate of several players, something Berry has done well w/ the minor leaguers;
- hope a new voice can get through to some of the guys;
- "put players on notice".

Basically to shake things up. Not surprising.

And to whoever said "Hickey never played in the majors", you might want to compare the coaching careers of, say, Rogers Hornsby & Ted Williams versus Jim Leyland & Earl Weaver. Sometimes the greats are the worst teachers - they had the gift of talent & can't get others to replicate what came easily to them. The list of excellent coaches who either never played in MLB or had middling to awful careers is long. Jimy Williams comes to mind also - say what you want about him as a manager, but as a coach he's one of the best in baseball.

 

great. that doesn't answer why he still has a job though.

 

Maybe because he's good at it?

Nobody here has the knowledge to judge the performance of a hitting/pitching coach.

 

Okay, Gary Gaetti played in 2507 games in his career and had a .255 BA, a .434 SLG%, 96 stolen bases, 1341 RBIs, 360 HRs, 39 trips, 443 doubles, and 1130 runs on 2280 hits in 8951 at bats. Now, Sean Berry played in 860 games in his career and had a .272 BA, a .445 SLG%, 47 stolen bases, 369 RBIs, 81 HRs, 10 trips, 153 doubles, and 310 runs on 657 hits in 2413 at bats. Gaetti played 19 seasons and Berry played 10. I personally want to start a petition for Bagwell to he hitting coach. He's played in 2150 games in his 14 season career and has a .297 BA, a .540 SLG%, 202 stolen bases, 1529 RBIs, 449 HRs, 32 trips, 488 doubles, and 1517 runs on 2314 hits in 7797 at bats. Who's with me?

 

I love Bags and hopes he gets some sort of position with the Astros. Unfortunately, Bagwell has the most unorthodox swing in the history of baseball. Not exactly who I figure would make a great hitting coach. Bench coach? Ok, that'll work. Honestly, I'd rather pull Ausmus out of the lineup and have him coach.

 

No doubt, I'm totally in favor of firing Gaetti. Management needed to shake things up immediately.

 

"Those who can't, teach."

 

Sounds like a message to the players........to me.