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Merrill Kelly and the D-backs pitchers looked quite good. The offense, on the
other hand..."Record: 9-10-2. Change on 2018: -2. 5-inning record: 9-9-3.The
Diamondbacks offense has not been having the best of springs. After 21 games and
almost seven hundred at-bats, they are hitting a collective .250/.320/.373. The
resulting .693 OPS ranks ahead only of the Cardinals this spring. Now, we all
know exactly how predictive spring training statistics are - hardly at all. But
when the numbers do line up with pre-season concerns about the offense seen as
potentially struggling to score runs, we can be forgiven for loosening our shirt
collars nervously. In particular, the fourteen home-runs hit by Arizona this
spring is the fewest of any team in baseball. This afternoon at Tempe Diablo,
Arizona were held to just four hits: singles by 2B Wilmer Flores, SS Ildemaro
Vargas and RF-CF Matt Szczur, and a double off the bat of SS Nick Ahmed. Flores
and Ahmed each had a walk. The D-backs had only two at-bats with a runner in
scoring position, and only scored their solitary run on a wild pitch. They have
managed just sixteen runs over their last six games, dating back to the first
game in Mexico. Too early to panic, naturally. But with less than two weeks to
go until Opening
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we moved through the spring. Still, the best-hitting teams last spring? The
Padres, Indians, Giants and Royals. The lack of offense perhaps overshadows
another decent outing from Merrill Kelly, who was probably one mistake from five
shutout innings. Albert Pujols may fall a long way short of justifying his $27
million salary for the Angels this year, but he still is apparently capable of
clobbering poorly-located pitchers into the bleachers. I trust Merrill has
learned a valuable lesson from this. He went 4.2 innings, allowing the two-run
shot to Pujols, as well as two other hits, while walking one and striking out
two. Marc Rzepczynski walked two before getting the last out in the fifth. Nick
Green tossed a pair of scoreless frames, though walked two and struck out none,
and Alex Young had a clean eighth.
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for the D-backs. It’s a radio game, available on ESPN Phoenix 620. Astros
bullpen coach Doug White replaces him in the first of Brad Ausmus’ staff
changes."Say “so long” to the all-too-familiar sight of a weary Charles Nagy
trudging to the mound to counsel yet another scuffling Angels pitcher.Nagy was
shown the door Tuesday, after three seasons as the Angels’ long-suffering
bullpen coach. His exit may herald the first of what may become a wholesale
purge of former manager Mike Scioscia’s coaching staff.It’s expected that the
Angels will name the entire new coaching staff in one fell swoop some time in
the next few weeks.Nagy, 51, will be replaced by Doug White on new skipper Brad
Ausmus’ staff in Anaheim. White has just completed his first season on the
Houston Astros’ staff as bullpen coach.Of all of Scioscia’s former coaches, Nagy
was one whose job seemed to be fairly secure. He had a positive track record
despite working with always depleted resources.The news was broken this morning
by Houston beat writer Jake Kaplan and senior writer Ken Rosenthal of The
Athletic.The Angels’ pitching staff was ravaged by injuries during each of
Nagy’s three seasons in Anaheim — a big reason all three were losing
seasons.Nagy was always juggling an ever-changing staff. In 2018 alone, 14
Angels pitchers went on the disabled list. White, a San Diego resident, had
spent six seasons in the Astros’ organization, with 2017 his first year as a
coach at the MLB level. He steps into a deluxe job in Anaheim.White was brought
aboard by Houston in 2013 as the pitching coach for the Tri-City ValleyCats
(short-season Class A). The next two seasons, White served as a roving pitching
instructor across the Astros’ system. In
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to his coaching stint with the Astros, White had been a minor-league pitching
coach in the St. Louis Cardinals organization for five years.White has been the
owner and operator of Passion for Pitching in San Diego since 2004, providing
private pitching instruction for clients. He’s a 2002 broadcast journalism
graduate of Arizona State University. Nagy joined the Angels in November, 2015,
replacing Mike Butcher.He became a popular figure in Anaheim his first season,
2016, when it appeared Nagy that could work magic. That season, Nagy nursed the
Angels’ battered pitchers to an unlikely American League record: The Angels had
24 different pitchers record a win. He used 30.Nagy had been pitching coach for
the Arizona Diamondbacks from 2011-13, where he oversaw the development of lefty
ace Patrick Corbin — a possible off-season target for the Angels.It was clear
that Nagy knew a lot about pitching. As an MLB pitcher himself, Nagy never had
the swing-and-miss stuff of a guy like Corbin. But he didn’t need it.Over 14
years in the majors, the right-hander had plenty of endurance and craft on the
mound.That guile made Nagy a three-time All-Star for the powerhouse Cleveland
Indians teams of the 1990s. He pitched in two World Series, in 1995 and
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both losing causes.From 1995-99, Nagy was an absolute ironman for the Tribe. He
had 15 or more wins in each of those seasons.Nagy was a cog for dominant Indians
teams that won tons of games — but underacheived when it counted. The World
Series wasn’t kind to Charlie Nagy.The Indians lost in six games to the Atlanta
Braves in the 1995 Series.Nagy’s next appearance in the Fall Classic was worse,
in 1997.In a thrilling Game 7, with the Indians facing the Florida Marlins, Nagy
took the ball in relief for the bottom of the 11th. He gave up a two-out,
bases-loaded walkoff single.Clutch? Maybe not. But nobody questioned Nagy’s
endurance. He made 192 consecutive starts without missing a turn for the
Indians.When Nagy finally went on the disabled list in May 2000 to remove bone
chips from his elbow, the run of starts ended — a streak that Nagy began way
back in October, 1993.Tell that to the kid pitchers of today.
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