One year ago, Cardinal Nation tasted the very definition of bittersweet as the team reveled in its 11th—and inarguably most dramatic and improbable—World Series Championship while also saying goodbye to Tony La Russa and Dave Duncan, the outgoing brain trust of so much on-the-field success over a decade and a half in St. Louis. Their departure set in motion a transfer of eras to new manager Mike Matheny, and on Friday another big chunk of that transfer disappeared from the Busch Stadium landscape and headed west.
As reported in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Cardinals hitting coach Mark McGwire is expected to depart for the Los Angeles Dodgers, where he will assume the same role under manager Don Mattingly. McGwire cited a desire to be closer to his family as the reason for the move.
It’s hard to know just what a hitting coach contributes to a major league team. He does not teach players to hit—they have to know how to do that before they get past Double-A. He can’t provide a magic b...
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Dave Duncan,
Mike Matheny,
Mark Mcgwire,
Don Mattingly,
David Freese,
Albert Pujols,
Chris Reed,
Tony La Russa
TEAMS: St. Louis Cardinals, Los Angeles Angels, Los Angeles Dodgers
TEAMS: St. Louis Cardinals, Los Angeles Angels, Los Angeles Dodgers
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