Another day another bit of news coming out of Fenway Park as it was announced that Dana LeVangie will no longer be the pitching coach for the Red Sox. I want to say I’m surprised by the news but then again this year brought just an onslaught of awful pitching from Boston. Granted it wasn’t LeVangie on the mound but it was his job to figure out why the pitching was so awful.
Much like the firing of Dave Dombrowski, removing LeVangie as the pitching coach is a double-edged sword. When the Red Sox were on top of the world in 2018 a major factor in their success was the effectiveness of the pitching staff.