By Buster Olney

Tuesday, October 13, 2009

The fates of managers and pitching coaches are tied to their pitchers, and when a pitcher starts to go bad, some staffers instinctively separate themselves from the failure as quickly as possible. I remember approaching a pitching coach about a guy on his staff who was struggling years ago. "You want to know what the [bleep] problem is?" the coach sputtered. "[The pitcher] is a piece of [bleep] who can't throw the ball over the [bleep] plate." Actually, the pitcher was good and diligent and wen ...

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