BOURNE, Mass. — A number of members of the 2013 Boston Pink Sox World Sequence workforce entered the teaching ranks as soon as their taking part in days concluded.
Most notably, David Ross managed the Chicago Cubs for 4 seasons. Mike Napoli presently is the primary base coach for the Cubs and Quintin Berry is in the identical function with the Milwaukee Brewers. Craig Breslow went into the entrance workplace as an alternative and have become the Pink Sox chief baseball officer this season.
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Jarrod Saltalamacchia is not on the MLB degree — he has had alternatives and revealed the Pink Sox reached out to him about becoming a member of their teaching employees — however coaches highschool baseball in Florida and serves as an assistant for the Bourne Braves of the acclaimed Cape Cod Baseball League.
That is a powerful group of former gamers already within the teaching world, however there’s one member of the championship roster that Saltalamacchia believes has the best make-up to be on an MLB teaching employees.
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“(Dustin) Pedroia could be an exceptional coach,” Saltalamacchia informed NESN.com on Thursday. “I feel ultimately he’ll do it. I am not stunned (he hasn’t but) simply because identical boat as me, he is acquired a household, they’re younger, he desires to get pleasure from that point.”
Pedroia, who retired in 2021, addressed a future in teaching in late Might when he was inducted into the Pink Sox Corridor of Fame. The four-time All-Star has labored with gamers individually, like Massachusetts native and Brewers outfielder Sal Frelick, and even lent a serving to hand to his former coach Torey Lovullo and the Arizona Diamondbacks.
However Pedroia mentioned he turned down larger alternatives to give attention to spending time along with his household. He even coaches considered one of his son’s baseball groups.
Whereas Pedroia coaches Little League in the intervening time, Saltalamacchia has little doubt his former teammate might do the job at a excessive degree within the majors leagues. Pedroia clearly has the credentials as a revered participant. He received two World Sequence titles with the Pink Sox and was injured for a 3rd. The soon-to-be 41-year-old additionally captured American League MVP honors in 2008 and claimed 4 Gold Glove awards in his profession, too.
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But it surely’s not simply Pedroia’s baseball pedigree that may make him a powerful coach in Saltalamacchia’s eyes. Saltalamacchia noticed throughout his time with the Pink Sox from 2010-13 Pedroia’s astute information of the sport play out on the diamond.
And Saltalamacchia might see Pedroia tapping into that to place all of the items in place from a big-league dugout.
“The man was an absolute beast when it got here to the psychological aspect of the sport, the coed of the sport. He understood each facet,” Saltalamacchia mentioned. “The catcher is meant to know what the outfield is doing, the infield is doing, pitchers, so that they’re at all times good managers. He was that very same man. He knew the place the ball needs to be going. He was watching my indicators and he was already transferring earlier than the pitch was even thrown as a result of he knew the man might throw and the place the ball was going to be and the hitter.
“He simply is aware of all features. He is sensible. He works properly with a whole lot of gamers to make the sport simpler. Not a whole lot of technical stuff.”
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