The quote in the title is from an unnamed Dodgers vet about Eddie Murray, who was fired today as the team’s hitting coach.
This from Tim Brown at Yahoo.com, in “Five and Fly: Murray less than a hit”.
A few weeks ago, asked about Eddie Murray’s touch with Los Angeles Dodgers hitters who ranged from the greenest of rookies to the grayest of veterans, one of those veterans sighed and shook his head.
He liked Murray. He valued Murray’s Hall-of-Fame credentials. He assumed Murray could probably teach hitting to someone.
The problem, he said, was Murray could be difficult to approach, particularly for a young player. And Murray, he said, didn’t do enough of approaching of his own.
“He’s trying, I think,” the veteran said. “He’s better this year than he was last year.”
As Brown puts it, the Dodgers installed as interim hitting coach Bill Mueller, “the anti-Murray.”
Should be interesting to see what happens from this change.
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