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"Bam-Bam" Meulens is officially the new hitting coach. What looks like a Giants press release is being 
From an email from the Giants:
The San Francisco Giants have announced that Hensley Meulens has been named the club's major league hitting coach, club Senior Vice President and General Manager Brian Sabean announced today.
Hensley "Bam Bam" Meulens spent the past season as the triple-A hitting coach for the Fresno Grizzlies, guiding the team to the sixth-highest batting avg. in the Pacific Coast League with a .275 mark. Two of the Grizzlies' batters placed in the top 10 for highest batting avg. in the PCL with John Bowker leading the league with a .342 clip and Jesus Guzman placing fifth with a .321 mark. After the minor league season concluded, he joined the Giants and worked as an assistant during September.
"We are excited to promote someone of Hensley's baseball background to the big league club," Sabean said. "He will be a great asset to the team as we look to improve our run scoring production with both our existing major league hitters as well as the young talent we have coming up from our minor league system. Hensley brings a unique perspective to the game with his playing time in the majors, Latin America and Japan as well as his coaching work with a number of major league organizations. He distinguished himself as a coach this past season in spring training, with Fresno and here with the big league club in September, and we look for him to get underway immediately with our hitters this off-season."
Haha batting average.
Just great.......a guy with a career BA of .220 and a career OBP of .288 is going to be our hitting instructor. Hoo boy!
Touche, but some of the best hitting instructors were the worst MLB hitters. Take Walk Hriniak who was arguably one of the best there was:
http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/h/hriniwa01.shtml
I have never seen a turnaround in plate discipline such as Bowker made last year under Muelens (no research involved). I had thought something like that was impossible. Then when he got back to the Giants, Bowker went back to hacking from the first at bat. Maybe there was something in the water in the Giants dugout.
He was also facing much better pitchers. We tend to forget that the talent gap between AAA and MLB is wide. Hellooooooo, Todd Linden.
Todd Linden poisoned that well for everyone with the Giants. Bill James has proved that MLE (major league equivalency) works for most players. Trouble is it didn’t work for Linden, and the Giants, distrusting numbers from the start, now have no faith in them at all. Bowker had excellent MLEs at Fresno and should have been given a regular job on the big club long before he was finally called up.
This is the Giants way, hire a guy from within a system that hasnt produced an all-star position player in 20 years and expect him to fix the offense. I am sure players will listen to him much more then they did that nobody Carney Lansford who only won a batting title and hit over .300 more times then Bam Bam had quality at bats above A ball. Good to know nothing has changed with the way this organization is run and I am sure that will result in multiple world series titles starting next year.
Most of the current Giants "hitters" have limited upside anyway; you can't make chicken soup out of chicken fertilizer. I'm pretty sure that by mid-season, Meulens' advice will be "I played with Don Mattingly, and you're no Mattingly!"