Here's a thought

i never understand the sports logic of good player correlates to being a good coach. plus i dont think he has any interest in coaching. any time someone in the media would ask him if he was mentoring the younger pitchers on the team he didnt seem to keen to that idea.

But, Maddux, right now wants to spend time with his HS age kids. He did some minor coaching with the Pads, Spring Training 2008 — but that was it for him.

He didn’t rule anything out for the future when his kids are grown.

I’m may be wrong here but I thought the 2nd time around with the Cubs there was at least one pitcher who said he had been mentoring them or him…???

…when he was asked, but he wasn’t usurping the authority of the pitching coaches of both teams.

“Here’s a thought” doesn’t tell anything about the contents.

Maddux would make an amazing pitching coach. His entire career is filled with kudos from fellow pitchers whom he helped. I am not going to give you the literally hundreds of stories I have read but here is one link I have posted many times. The Brad Penny story is priceless. http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/print?id=3336514&type=story. Sadly no longer on line is an even better story on the subject of Maddux as mentor which was published in the Des Moines Register in April of 06 with various Cub farm hands including Fontenot and Soto telling amazing anecdotes of Maddux. I think the thing that sums it up best was that when he played for the Braves there was a phrase that “you could not drive through Atlanta without leaning how to throw a changeup.” However Maddux as a pitching coach would probably be a waste. Maddux sees the WHOLE game and would very likely make one the great managers if he chose to pursue it. Maddux himself has said that his preference would be to be a BENCH coach which makes a lot of sense.
However don’t hold your breath. Maddux seems to be very much enjoying his "Mr. Mom " role of dropping off the kids of at school, picking them up and playing golf in between. He appears to be attending every sporting event in the greater Las Vegas area and doing a number of charity events. Last year he worked for the Padres as a pitching advisor in Spring Training, my guess is that he will almost certainly end up working for the Braves sooner rather than later with the only hitch being that they train in Florida. I expect he will do the special advisor thing for a few years and may consider full time baseball work when his son goes to college. Obviously he won’t do it for the money but I think he misses baseball and besides he is VERY, VERY competitive with his brother Mike so he can’t let Mike get all that credit for helping the Rangers without wanting to try to beat him with a team of his own.

Alas I can’t find the original but I did post this on the old blog a few years ago. Some “fan” wrote in to one of the ESPN guys ( I think Neyer) claiming that Maddux was overrated for helping young pitchers and Neyer received a response from an MLB pitcher who wanted to remain anonymous but might well have been Marquis. The pitcher said he had been at Spring Training with Maddux in I think 2002 with the Braves and that Maddux spend hours helping the young pitchers without being intrusive. The guy said he learned more in a week from Maddux than in his entire professional career up to that point.