My college teammate AJ Hinch was just named head coach of the Arizona Diamondbacks making him the youngest ever major league manager. He's got no coaching experience at any level and his appointment as skipper has been wildly unpopular thus far with the Phoenicians. Ungrateful lot, they only just got a team a decade ago, come on. But the local paper held an online poll that gave AJ just a 2.75% hiring/job approval out of a not statistically insignificant 7,625 votes. Ouch. I'm really pulling for him. Will be interesting to see his leadership capability as I would never have considered him the prototypical field general as a player, instead preferring to stoically lead by considerable example. He's never executed a double switch or a defensive replacement, but he knows the game cold. And he's taking over for Bob Melvin, another professionally insignificant catcher with Palo Alto roots who were largely untested managerially when as skippers. Go AJ, Go Stanford.
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