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Doctor Gast

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I stated a little while ago about how bad PIT pitch coaching was & how pitchers blossomed after leaving there, Gerrit Cole was one example. I got a rebuttal that Gerrit Cole was always a monster. Here is a statement contrary.

"And yet as Cole adhered to the organization’s pitching philosophy, prioritizing efficiency and soft contact, the results were only good, not great. “Not the monster we know today,” said Ron Wolforth, founder of Texas Baseball Ranch. Cole struck out less than a batter per inning for the Pirates."

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jorgenswest

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They did overhaul the pitching staff following the 2019 season. Gerrit Cole left after 2017. Is the comment still relevant?

Doctor Gast

Doctor Gast 10,576

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12 hours ago, jorgenswest said:

They did overhaul the pitching staff following the 2019 season. Gerrit Cole left after 2017. Is the comment still relevant?

Ray Searage was PIT's head pitching coach from '10 to the end of the '19 season. I believe that encompasses both Gerrit Cole & Tyler Glasnow's time in PIT. Both of them criticized Searage's coaching practices & how it affected their performance there, Which makes it absolutely relevant pertaining to that past thread. & setting the record straight.

jorgenswest

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Got it. I wasn’t aware a record needed to be set straight. I thought it might be about trying to get more out of recent Pirates.

You probably had Musgrove on Searage’s failure list also. His strike out rate went from 21.9% in 2019 to 33.1% in 2020 under the new management.

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