The Cardinals announced yesterday that they have fired Assistant Hitting Coach Mark Budaska. Budaska was a switch-hitting OF/DH as a player, and was signed as an undrafted free agent out of Pierce College in California by the Oakland Athletics on May 11, 1973. He spent 10 years in the Oakland Athletics organization as a player, getting into 2 games in the outfield in 1978 with 1 start in RF and 9 games as a DH in 1981, then closed out his playing career in Japan in 1982. Budaska worked in the biomechanics field, then spent 1998-2000 as a hitting coach and first base coach for a professional team in Taiwan.
An Anaylsis of the Cardinals’ Firing of Assistant Hitting Coach Mark Budaska
