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Originally Posted by Mario-Rijo
Certainly sounds like a step in the right direction if they were to go that route. My question would be if he believed that much in Melvin it's because he bought in to whatever his philosophy was, so what was Melvins philosophy, anyone here know? What I mean is does Melvin share some of the archaic principles as our own Baker? I'm sure Price did a little research on Baker before he accepted the job and vice versa, how much do they see eye to eye? FWIW it doesn't sound like Price is typical but it hasn't been completely addressed, since he is just the pitching coach.
The preceeding stories bring up alot of thoughts and questions. Such as, he seems to favor an approach of doing it slowly and properly (which is a great thing), will the fans or more importantly management be so patient? Will he divide the pitchers and position players if his guys don't get much run support? Will he quit if say Rick Sweet is the '11 manager? There is a lot of things in those write ups and I think they are pretty positive but some things could lead to blowing up in our face. On the flipside he should be great for our pitchers and he has some recent knowledge of both the D-Backs and Phillies system and by proxy due to trades the Jays, Tigers and Indians now.
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The first thing that comes to me is the Reds jumped at the chance to get Price. They said when they dismissed Pole, if I'm remembering correctly, that it wasn't a reflection on him. I think we really wanted Price.
Secondly, and I know we debate this endlessly here, I'm not convinced that with regards to our pitching, that Baker is as archaic as his caricature. With the exception of the Harang relief appearance, he has not really run most of our pitchers into the ground.
I don't think it's a given that Baker's gone next year, as much as that's a popular position on RZ. But it seems Prices objection was partly about Melvin, but also that Melvin was dismissed and a guy who Price believed was not ready whatsoever who replaced him. Likewise, Price's hiring was not made in a vacuum. It appeared to me that Baker had some input and he's been high on Price the few times I've head him talk about it. And that's with Pole and Baker having lots of history.
I really think this guy's going to be exciting working with our pitchers. Even with the point he made about the lack of run support, he basically still worked with the pitchers to see that they kept their heads on straight even without run support. That's my interpretation. Price is one more piece to this organization making strides.