Don Baylor — recently let go by the Rockies — has agreed to terms with the Diamondbacks to take over as their hitting coach. Baylor had hoped to be considered for a manager job, but that doesn’t seem to be in the cards. I imagine part of it is that he’s always been perceived as a decent hitting coach and never knocked anyone’s socks off when he was manager. And that he hasn’t managed for eight years. Alas.
Apropos of nothing, I had a reason to be looking back at Baylor’s playing career recently, and was rather shocked to see that he stole 52 bases one year. I remember Baylor as a portly DH first and pretty darn portly manager second, so the image of a speedy Baylor — that apparently existed just before I started to become really aware of what was going on in baseball — has been knocking around my head all week, struggling to gain
