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| Chat with Red Sox Hitting Coach Dave Magadan | 10.20.09 at 3:17 pm ET |
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.
In 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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Alex Speier: Bard showed a tremendous slider in striking out the side against the O's in the 8th inning. #redsox 3 hours ago
Rob Bradford: Josh Reddick just hit a home run. He is now 11-for-22 with six extra-base hits this spring. #redsox 4 hours ago
Alex Speier: Wakefield on Lowell: Whatever his role might be this year, I'm glad he's still with us. ... He would have been sorely missed. #redsox 4 hours ago
Alex Speier: Lowell is done for the day, replaced by Aaron Bates at 1B for the top of the fourth. Lowell didn't have any grounders come his way today. 5 hours ago
Alex Speier: David Ortiz stayed back on 3-1 pitch, elevated it into a jet stream for wind-aided 2R-HR to RF. His first HR and 2nd hit of spring. #redsox 5 hours ago
Alex Speier: Lowell just flew out to right-center in his second at-bat. He's 1-for-2, having dumped a single to right in his 1st AB. #redsox 5 hours ago
Alex Speier: Daisuke Matsuzaka had "encouraging day," according to #redsox, despite throwing a bullpen session rather than live BP http://bit.ly/b0viga 6 hours ago
Alex Speier: ...But he seemed pleased with how he threw today, suggesting he had decent feel of his breaking stuff and solid power on fastball. #redsox 7 hours ago
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Rob Bradford: If anybody cares... David Ortiz has been using the same size bat his entire professional career #redsox 7 hours ago
Rob Bradford: Hitting coach Dave Magadan says Ortiz has been getting used to adjustments made in offseason/early spring training http://bit.ly/av2GpX 7 hours ago
Rob Bradford: In 21 plate appearances this spring, David Ortiz has had 10 lefties. Looking for optimism regarding the slugger's swing http://bit.ly/av2GpX 8 hours ago
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