Here you go, the post that so many of you have been waiting for me to write.
I am starting the Donnie Ecker Watch.
To be clear, I am not calling for Donnie Ecker to be fired. I am not saying that I think Donnie Ecker should be fired, or that he is to blame for the Texas Rangers’ offensive woes. As I have said before, I am agnostic on coaches, because I do not think we have nearly enough information to meaningfully evaluate their job performance. They are a black box — we see the inputs (the players who they have to work with) and the outputs (the offensive results), but we have no clue what is happening inside that black box, what the coaches or coaching staff are doing, to what extent the coaches are helping or not helping or whathaveyou.