Wednesday, November 30, 2005

Coaching staff is complete

Jeff Cox is the new third base coach, sealing the deal that none of next year's coaches will have come from Mac's old staff (which isn't a bad thing). Cox has been on McKeon's staff in Florida the past few years and was an assistant with Montreal from 2000-2001 and KC in '95. He also has quite an extensive past managing in the minors including a stint in, you guessed it, Montreal's farm system. I don't know when exactly, but I'd be willing to be it coincided with the time that Dave Littlefield and Jim Tracy were there. On a lighter note, it means that our staff next year will be named Jim, Jim, Jeff, Jeff, John, with the one outlier being Bobby Cuellar (who may be considering a name change to John to complete the symmetry).