Kevin Long - New Hitting Coach

[UMDNats]

https://twitter.com/chelsea_janes/status/926203748669644800

Kevin Long will be the Nationals' next hitting coach, according to a person familiar with the situation.

[Slateman]

Hello strikeouts

[varoadking]

Long's son, Jaron, is a pitcher in the Nationals' organization.

[Mattionals]

Hello strikeouts

The Mets struck out less year than the Nats.

[Slateman]

The Mets struck out less year than the Nats.

Because Cespedes only played half the season and they traded Bruce.

For his tenure with the Mets, the Nats have had a lower K rate.

[Mattionals]

Because Cespedes only played half the season and they traded Bruce.

For his tenure with the Mets, the Nats have had a lower K rate.

Team K%

2015 - Mets 21%, Nats 22%
2016 - Nats 20.2%, Mets 21.3%
2017 - Mets 20.9%, Nats 21.4%

Mets average 21.07%
Nats average 21.2%

Not sure how you math.

[varoadking]

 

[GburgNatsFan]

[Slateman]

Team K%

2015 - Mets 21%, Nats 22%
2016 - Nats 20.2%, Mets 21.3%
2017 - Mets 20.9%, Nats 21.4%

Mets average 21.07%
Nats average 21.2%

Not sure how you math.

Read the chart wrong. Thanks.

Still, Long sucks. Then again don't see how a hitting coach is going to help a team full of chokers.

[The Chief]

Fire Long

Long will fix the hitting

Doesn't matter, <playername> sucks

Insert Long joke here


Did I tick all the boxes?

[Slateman]

Nickname for Long?

[The Chief]

Long Ball?

[varoadking]

Long Ball?

In honor of SF:  Long Dong...

[dcpatti]

[Slateman]

Long Ball?

Long John Balls?

[The Chief]

Long John Balls?

Long John Ball st?

[Five Banners]

Many a Yankee postseason saw cold bats with him at the helm, so there's that

[LoveAngelos]

His real name is Long Duck Dong

an exchange student who no doubt would have trouble getting into the country today and given what he did to grandpa's car I think that is a good thing

[NatsAllThe Way]

Hello strikeouts

Hey, the Cubs beat us by striking out.

[NatsAllThe Way]

Fire Long

Long will fix the hitting

Doesn't matter, <playername> sucks

Insert Long joke here


Did I tick all the boxes?

Inserting a Chien-Ming Wang line would've spiced it up a bit.

[NatsAllThe Way]

A Chien-Ming Wang joke would've spiced it up a bit.

... Long: "Wang goes deep!".  Something like that.

[CoryTheFormerExposFan]

I don't buy evaluating hitting coaches at this level strictly on numbers.  We're going to have good numbers this coming season, just like last season, because we have a bunch of great hitters.  Long isn't going to make or break them, especially since our core is full of vets.  He changed Murphy's career in the past, but guys like him, Zim, Harper Rendon...what's he really going to change with them? 

[aBaltoNat]

And some of you knuckle heads wanted him as the manager.

[imref]

Can we change the thread title to "Fire Kevin Long"?

[Ray D]

Can we change the thread title to "Fire Kevin Long"?

We don't know if he's the problem, but there is some disease, some contagious disease, that has inflicted nearly the entire team.  I guarantee you, if Dusty were manager there would be a cure.  If Long is the disease, he'd be gone.  The man to fire is Martinez.  This has become a travesty and the team is an embarrassment and is unwatchable. 

I don't know that it's Long.   For all I know there could be a full mutiny in the clubhouse. Harper refuses to do  drills that Long gives him.  How does Harper get away with that?  Because he's a freaking prima donna?  Do your own drills when they work. When you  play as crappy as you do you do the drills that the hitting coach tells you to do.

Something's going on, something terribly wrong, and it's time to change managers.