Refund on Rudy Jaramillo?

Baseball is way different to football and basketball, when somebody is having a rough time in a game or having a stretch you can take them out sub them in and out. Really in baseball what can you do during the game, you can only do so much. You have 6 guys on the bench so you never know when you will need them and resting guys in the bullpen dont wanna run them out there to much.

hitting coaches are over rated. Yourself — is your best batting coach.

I remember Rudy was talking about how much film he was studing on the players — I don’t know if he needed a longer spring training or what — but this team looks like it did last year. But you can only blame coaches for so long, maybe the hitters just aren’t good enough.

Hopefully it’s just early and they will turn it around.

I’d give him some more time, but it may be too late by that point.

…Larry for the bullpen woes, which coach do we compliment for the splendid starting pitching we’ve seen thus far?

and castro is in AA….

should we get a refund on the people who thought the solution was a hitting coach.

I wasn’t going to mention this during the off season since there was a bit of a buzz about this acquisition. But late last season or shortly after the season a one Derrek Lee (if there’s one position player on this team to listen to, he’s the one) stated how a pitching coach prowess is over-hyped and that it’s the players that have to produce, period. Looks like he is dead nuts on.

Lou, yes I know the old adage, " he can’t hit or pitch", but he can lead. He needs to go. But this will fall on deaf ears.

That they just fired him to stir things up and hopefully get them going.

Personally, I think it’s the players, not the coach. I’d give Rudy some time.

Year after year we must continuously facepalm as we watch Jim fail miserably. The reason we are unable to acquire better talent is due to his asinine contracts. When he decides he wants someone, its “Balls to the Wall” and his judgement is completely clouded. Mult-year contracts have us stuck as a losing franchise right now, and it is an absolute embarassment that Jim Hendry has been allowed to continue this train wreck.

I am by no means saying I could do his job better, just saying that clearly there are GM’s who make much better decisions, and when you make as many horrible deals as Jim Hendry has, you should be fired. This isn’t the players’ fault. The team we have is simply not good enough. The players are not good enough. Jim Hendry has failed us.

The idea of “teaching” anything to guys at the major league level to me is fantasy. By the time a player gets to this level, his habits and patterns are largely established. You can certainly site outliers like Jim Frey turning Sandberg into a power hitter, but that is not the norm.

The problem is a lot of right handed hitters with long swings and little plate discipline. Those habits aren’t usually changed at the big league level.

are 100% on the players. Just like the results in the ’07 and ’08 playoffs (true, Lou should not have pulled Zambrano so early in Game 1 in 2007, but the offense still did nothing). All on the players. Not on the coaches. Not on the manager. Not on the GM. Not on Billy Sianis. Not on the fans, not on the Ricketts, and not on anyone or anything else. The players need to grow a pair, and start playing. The 5-9 start is absolutely 100% on them.

I know what Rudy does and how he coaches the hitters, I’ve seen him first hand turn Josh Hamelton to a first pitch swinging hack, also Ian Kinsler into a power guy(hitting .260) I might add. All that being said, he has a way he teaches, these guy’s did’nt get here no knowing how to hit, maybe if they were’nt boo’ed after only a couple games, they would’nt press so much. What are we Philly?