What makes a good pitching coach? It’s a question that's haunted me since I started thinking about baseball too much. Why are Don Cooper and Mickey Callaway good at their jobs, and why was Scott Radinsky bad?
Coaching in baseball is so hard because it is individual rather than team-based. It's hard to be too dogmatic. You are showing each single player how to do something, not teaching a unit to act as one. Everyone behaves, and is, different. Hitting is a whole other beast, and I put little blame or praise on hitting coaches. Way too many moving parts.