Talk:Coach (baseball)

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Minor league/collegiate/amateur coaching structures

This article describes baseball coaches from an MLB perspective. Minor league and amateur/collegiate teams have different coaching structures that I believe are worth mentioning here; unfortunately, I don't know enough about the subject to contribute much. Can anyone help? Kuyabribri (talk) 20:32, 2 December 2008 (UTC)

Well, yes it's true that some coaches in those other systems do double duty, however, the titles remain the same. Most minor league and college teams have a manager, a pitching coach, and a hitting coach. In the minors, college, high school, and recreational ball, the manager often (in fact, most of the time) is the third base coach. Another assistant or a player not in the game assumes the role of first base coach. In high schools it is often just a manager and an assistant - they often share duties listed in the artcile depending on their specialty. The only coaching position that is not listed here that's found in baseball is the collegiate baseball role of Graduate Assistant. This is typically a former college player doing grad school at the university or just purely volunteering in exchange for the experience of helping run a team. He is responsible for carrying out instructions and policies of the manager, overseeing elements of the team he is specialized in (i.e. a former pitcher working with current pitchers), hitting practice balls, etc. Really he is just an assistant coach. I feel that perhaps the article could cite that the number of coaches varies per level, and mention the fact that in lower levels the manager is a 3rd base coach among other things. But I don't believe that there are the number of differences between coaching staffs in the various levels of baseball that you beleive there to be. Thouhts? Coastalsteve984 (talk) 05:03, 5 December 2008 (UTC)

That's pretty much what I had in mind with my original statement. I'll find some way to word that appropriately and incorporate it into the article. I think I did a decent job making dugout (baseball) so that it incorporated facets of that subject at amateur/minor league levels. Until I incorporate it, we should leave the maintenance tag up. KuyaBriBri^Talk 16:21, 18 December 2008 (UTC)

Skipper

Aren't baseball managers also called "skippers?" Maybe the article should mention that -Bluesoju (talk) 16:07, 5 May 2009 (UTC)

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Pronouns

Given that the MLB now has a female full-time coach and female leagues do exist, would it perhaps be wise to switch to using they/them/their pronouns in the article to reflect this, rather than the current he/him/his? Supertanno (talk) 02:31, 14 April 2022 (UTC)