Rothschild and Mazzone

[Sweet Swinging Billy]

Maybe unlike other Cub fans, I'm very happy that Larry Rothschild decided to stay with the Cubs. I believe he's one of the top pitching coaches in the game, especially in the NL. However that being said, I would dump Rothschild, in a minute for Mazzone...but I know Hendry wouldn't do something so cold. Besides Mazzone, Rothschild, and Duncan, how would you rate the top pitching coaches in the NL?

[USSoccer]

Maybe unlike other Cub fans, I'm very happy that Larry Rothschild decided to stay with the Cubs. I believe he's one of the top pitching coaches in the game, especially in the NL. However that being said, I would dump Rothschild, in a minute for Mazzone...but I know Hendry wouldn't do something so cold. Besides Mazzone, Rothschild, and Duncan, how would you rate the top pitching coaches in the NL?

 

There's Mazzone, Mike Maddux and everybody else.

[rocket]

Why do you think Larry is so good?

[Sweet Swinging Billy]

Rocket Sauce wrote: "Why do you think Larry is so good"?

 

---Not that I'm an expert or anything but I'm basing my opinion on what Rothschild did with the Marlins in '97 and what others have said "in the business". It's my understanding that he is well respected and the players like him. I have heard Greg Maddux say some real nice things about him before. Oh, and I did forget about Greg's brother--what Mike Maddux has done with a young Brewer staff has been exceptional.

[AAApittsburgh]

Rocket Sauce wrote: "Why do you think Larry is so good"?

 

---Not that I'm an expert or anything but I'm basing my opinion on what Rothschild did with the Marlins in '97 and what others have said "in the business". It's my understanding that he is well respected and the players like him. I have heard Greg Maddux say some real nice things about him before. Oh, and I did forget about Greg's brother--what Mike Maddux has done with a young Brewer staff has been exceptional.

He had Kevin Brown, Livan Hernandez, and Al Leiter. Not like he wasn't given much to work with there. I think if you give most pitching coaches Wood, Prior, Zambrano, and a fairly deep farm system full of pitchers they would be pretty good too.

[daske17]

For the record, the Yankees have received permission from the Braves to talk with Mazzone about the pitching coach job. #-o

 

Why didn't Hendry think of this?

[MPrior]

I like Larry Rothschild too, but when pretty much every single pitcher on your staff has developed control issues, you've got to begin to wonder why. Especially when some of those pitchers should be very, very good. I think, at the very least, Rothschild needs to come up a with a completely new philosophical approach - as in, encourage the pitchers to throw more strikes, aim for contact, and put an emphasis on control rather than just trotting pitchers out there and hoping that their stuff (which is admittedly very good) will be enough to do the trick. The reason that Roger Clemens has been so good for so long isn't just because he has a nasty splitter to go with his upper-nineties fastball. It's because he consistently hits his spots with those nasty pitches.

[NorthsideAvenger]

Maybe unlike other Cub fans, I'm very happy that Larry Rothschild decided to stay with the Cubs. I believe he's one of the top pitching coaches in the game, especially in the NL. However that being said, I would dump Rothschild, in a minute for Mazzone...but I know Hendry wouldn't do something so cold. Besides Mazzone, Rothschild, and Duncan, how would you rate the top pitching coaches in the NL?

 

There's Mazzone, Mike Maddux and everybody else.

 

You half correct, USSoccer, you forgot Rick Petersen and Bud Black. I would Mazzone, Maddux, Petersen and Black and then there is everybody else.

 

But Rothschild, is like Baker, he doesn't hold his pitchers responsible.

[NCCubFan]

For the record, the Yankees have received permission from the Braves to talk with Mazzone about the pitching coach job. #-o

 

Why didn't Hendry think of this?

And now Mazzone has signed with the Orioles to replace Ray Miller as their pitching coach.

[UMFan83]

I heard somewhere that Rothschild works a lot better with power pitchers then finesse pitchers or vice versa. I forgot which one, maybe someone can enlighten me.