Curt Young a managerial candidate?

by jlk9697 on Oct 25, 2010 3:32 PM EDT

ESPN is reporting that Curt Young is turning down an offer to come back for his 8th season as the Oakland A's pitching coach. His reasoning it appears is to explore other options at the major league level.

There is no doubting alot of the success A's pitchers have had over the years from Hudson, Mulder, Zito to the recent successes of Trevor Cahill (18-8), Brett Anderson, and Andrew Bailey. Also, Gio Gonzalez made some strides this year.

The rumor flying around now seems to be that Young is jumping ship for the Boston pitching coach job now that Farrell is gone. This would make sense, but should the Pirates put in a call to Young and see if he's interested in more by coming here?

I don't know Young all that well, despite the success of plenty of pitchers he has coached. I have no idea if he has managerial ambitions, if he fits the "manager's profile", or if he's ready for such a position. I'd love to hear from someone who may have a bit more knowledge on Young.

I'll summarize by saying the idea of having a manager who was a former pitching coach for a small-market team used to throwing young pitchers out there is an extremely intriguing thought.

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Gotta admit I like this one … but if he’s vying for Boston Pitching Coach he’s probably looking for more experience coaching vets, not young pitchers.

by Pensburgh Pirates on Oct 25, 2010 3:59 PM EDT reply actions

of course he would rather coach vets

because coaching young players requires actual coaching, and a coach is only as good as the team record indicates.

by white angus on Oct 25, 2010 4:11 PM EDT up reply actions

According to Nick Cafardo of the Boston Globe...

…Young’s going to become the pitching coach for the Diamondbacks, on Kirk Gibson’s new staff. (Link, via the always-unreliable Twitter.)

Decent idea, though.

by Vlad on Oct 25, 2010 4:17 PM EDT reply actions

Charles Nagy emerges as frontrunner to be D-Backs pitching coach

Link. No idea if this is more reliable. Just interview Young before other teams chasing pitching coach asap!

by taiwania on Oct 26, 2010 7:38 AM EDT up reply actions

Speaking of Gibson and his staff:

Given all the ex-Tigers personnel in our FO, I’m surprised we haven’t interviewed Alan Trammell for our managerial opening.

by Vlad on Oct 25, 2010 4:18 PM EDT reply actions

You would pick...

the ONE former (still alive) major league manager that lost more games in his first 3 (and only 3) seasons than JR.

by Thunder on Oct 25, 2010 4:58 PM EDT up reply actions

Well, yeah.

So we can be reasonably sure that the job won’t kill him.

by Vlad on Oct 25, 2010 5:07 PM EDT up reply actions

yankees fired their pitching coach

wonder if we’ll give him a call?

by johnnycuff on Oct 25, 2010 7:45 PM EDT reply actions

Unlikely

Eiland had a rather substantial leave of absence in the middle of the season, and rumor was that it was for treatment for substance abuse.

by Vlad on Oct 26, 2010 10:11 AM EDT up reply actions

interesting

i didn’t know anything about him, just wondering.

by johnnycuff on Oct 26, 2010 11:35 AM EDT up reply actions

Decent prospect in the '90s...

…but never really managed to break through. I didn’t realize it at the time, but his low K rate was a pretty bad sign.

He does have a couple of interesting footnotes to his career. He homered in his first career AB, kind of neat for a pitcher. He also had a bit part in the movie “For the Love of the Game” (Kevin Costner’s third baseball movie, the one nobody remembers – IMDB link), and body doubled for Costner in some of the game footage.

by Vlad on Oct 26, 2010 11:05 PM EDT up reply actions