For the past three seasons, Matt Stairs has been sharing his hitting philosophy and offensive ideologies from behind a microphone. That hasn’t necessarily been a bad thing, and many Phillies fans would agree that they’ve learned at least a thing or two from listening to The Man Who Never Has to Buy a Beer in Philadelphia Ever Again.
It wasn’t exactly an out-of-left field decision that the Phillies made when they named Stairs as the team’s hitting coach for the 2017 season, seeing that he had been itching to get back into the game in some way since the day he left it.