HENSLEY MEULENS?

Wasn't Rudy Jaramillo available this year? Would have been good for our increasinly Latino line-up.

Who's this guy? Anyone?

HENSLEY MEULENS NAMED GIANTS HITTING COACH

The San Francisco Giants have announced that Hensley Meulens has been named the club's major league hitting coach, club Senior Vice President and General Manager Brian Sabean announced today.

Hensley "Bam Bam" Meulens spent the past season as the triple-A hitting coach for the Fresno Grizzlies, guiding the team to the sixth-highest batting avg. in the Pacific Coast League with a .275 mark. Two of the Grizzlies' batters placed in the top 10 for highest batting avg. in the PCL with John Bowker leading the league with a .342 clip and Jesus Guzman placing fifth with a .321 mark. After the minor league season concluded, he joined the Giants and worked as an assistant during September.

"We are excited to promote someone of Hensley's baseball background to the big league club," Sabean said. "He will be a great asset to the team as we look to improve our run scoring production with both our existing major league hitters as well as the young talent we have coming up from our minor league system. Hensley brings a unique perspective to the game with his playing time in the majors, Latin America and Japan as well as his coaching work with a number of major league organizations. He distinguished himself as a coach this past season in spring training, with Fresno and here with the big league club in September, and we look for him to get underway immediately with our hitters this off-season."

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no idea......
i wanted will clark =[

wow....

that might have been the worst possible guy to promote. of all possible people, we promote the Fresno Grizzlies hitting coach??

way to influx some new ideas and strategies guys...promote the guy who taught half the team how to hit in AAA up to the majors to teach them the same crap that wasnt helping in the first place.

when will the Giants get out of this rut of making the lamest possible moves? signing mediocre players, hiring mediocre coaches, playing mediocre baseball.

heres a good way to get the bats going, spend some money on real bats! not Michael Tucker type bats, Matt Holliday type bats.

once again the giants are 100 miles off course bumbling with their hitting coaches instead of actually signing some players who CAN hit.

/rant

Well, at least he can talk with every player on the team in their native languages.

For some reason, carney was not getting through with the guys, and Meulens showed he made progress with velez & bowker. I think a better move would have been, if we gotten rid of bochy instead. And yes, the bonus that he speaks like 55 different languages, should help.