Casey optimistic broadcast experience can translate into role as Yankees hitting coach
NEW YORK (AP) — Sean Casey went straight from having fun with a 12-year massive league profession to sitting within the MLB Network studio analyzing hitting for tv audiences on a nightly foundation.
He believes the expertise of discussing every part associated to hitting since 2009 has ready him for his new position because the New York Yankees’ hitting coach, and he’s optimistic he can flip round a struggling offense with 71 video games remaining.
Casey, sporting a mustache as a tribute to former Yankees captain Don Mattingly, was launched as New York’s hitting coach on Wednesday, two days after taking the job. He replaces Dillon Lawson, whom the Yankees fired following a 7-4 loss to the Chicago Cubs on Sunday.
“I feel like that job at MLB Network has set me up in a way to be an incredible coach because I basically had been coaching for 15 years,” Casey stated. “Every time I’m on air, and I’m watching video games, and I’m having to interrupt down gamers, guys which can be scorching guys which can be struggling, what might they do?
“I feel like there’s nothing when I coach this team, there’s nothing that I don’t know about what the swing looks like from the ground up, what it looks like mentally to be a great big leaguer and to have success as a team up and down that lineup. So MLB Network has made me feel ready for this job.”
Casey accepted it after Yankees supervisor and former Cincinnati teammate Aaron Boone referred to as him over the weekend as basic supervisor Brian Cashman was planning to let Lawson go. Casey initially was going to take an assistant hitting coach job that went to Brad Wilkerson within the offseason however declined it to spend time along with his fiancee, who had breast most cancers and was present process chemotherapy.
He is taking up for a minimum of the rest of this season and can think about subsequent season in the course of the offseason.
The 49-year-old former first baseman is presiding over an offense that’s batting .231, which ranks twenty eighth among the many 30 main league groups, forward of solely Detroit and Oakland. The Yankees are 14-17 since Aaron Judge tore a ligament in his proper massive toe on June 3 and is batting a serious league-worst .218 because the slugger was damage crashing into the right-field wall at Dodger Stadium.
The Yankees entered the All-Star break at 49-42 and fourth within the AL East. While New York is fifth within the majors with 129 homers, it’s 18th in runs and its .300 on-base share is twenty sixth.
“Expectations in New York, expectations for myself are high,” Casey stated. “I would expect myself to come in and make an impact. I think the biggest thing is that for all of us, you just got to make sure that you get locked into what your job is, and I think sometimes that if you start to worry what others’ expectations are for you, you don’t do them as good as you can in the trenches.”
While watching the Yankees from the the MLB Network studio, Casey stated he observed how rapidly a number of the innings unfolded, particularly since Judge was out.
“I’m seeing a lot of five-, six-, seven- maybe eight-pitch innings,” he stated. “For me on the outside looking in and I’m like, that’s very unlike the Yankees. That’s not the Yankee away. That’s not the way these guys go about it.”
Casey batted .302 with 130 house runs and 735 RBIs over 12 seasons, together with eight with the Reds, highlighted by three NL All-Star choices.
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