JUPITER, Fla. -- Over a professional baseball life that spans more than three decades, Mike Maddux has worn 13 different uniforms as a player and coach. All the while, he admired the reputation and tradition of the Cardinals organization -- from afar. And Cardinals' executives long admired Maddux, who owns one of the most extensive pitching coach resumes in the game.
The mutual admiration resulted in Maddux being hired to replace Derek Lilliquist as pitching coach, a deviatino from the Cardinals' typical strategy of promoting coaches from within.
"He always seems to get the most out of his pitchers," Cardinals president of baseball operations John Mozeliak said Wednesday.