Looking at the Pirates’ new coaching and front office hires this offseason, you’d be hard pressed to find a common theme among them.
Dewey Robinson, a 66-year-old pitching guru who helped develop the Rays’ outstanding pitching over the last decade, joined as a special advisor to pitching development. On the other side of the coin, you have Eric Munson and Quentin Brown, two hitting coaches who had run private baseball facilities, but never did any formal coaching in professional baseball. Munson, a former major-leaguer, will be the Class AAA hitting coach and Brown will be the Florida complex league hitting coach.