When Aaron Boone was hired before the 2018 season to manage the New York Yankees, I was a bit surprised Larry Rothschild was kept as the team’s pitching coach. And no, not because Rothschild didn’t do a good job under Joe Girardi for seven seasons.
Instead, since Boone was ushering in a new Yankee approach being driven by analytics, it only made sense that an entirely new coaching staff accompany Boone, right?
Wrong, because Boone had no prior managerial experience, Rothschild was kept in tow because of his vast baseball knowledge and understanding of the daunting job that is being a coach for the Yanks.