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Chat with Red Sox Hitting Coach Dave Magadan 10.20.09 at 3:17 pm ET
By Alex Speier

Red Sox hitting coach Dave Magadan has generously offered to drop by the Virtual Press Box on Thursday at noon to take questions in the second installment of WEEI.com’s Thursday baseball chat series.

102009_magadanIn his third season with the Sox, Boston finished third in the A.L. in runs and second in the league with a .352 OBP, .454 slugging mark and .806 OPS. In fact, the Sox have ranked in the top three in the A.L. in each of those categories in each of his three seasons with Boston.

Before he joined the coaching ranks, Magadan spent 16 seasons in the majors with the Mets, Marlins, Mariners, Astros, Cubs, A’s and Padres. He compiled a career .288 average with a .390 OBP. After retiring, he entered the Padres system, first as a minor-league hitting coordinator and then on San Diego’s big-league hitting coach from 2003-06.

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    Often, the Sox pitchers leave 2-3 people on base in innings 5-7 with no or one out. They call in one of our legion of second-tier relief pitchers who then give up 1-3 runs.

    I bet a little computer analysis says that we’d be *much* better off with a lights-out Bard or the old Pap in this situation, and save the second-tier relief staff for innings 8-9 with nobody on base.

    It makes little sense to nominate a relief pitcher a setup man or a closer.

    Anybody got a computer and some statistics?

    …L

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