Comments on: Reds Retain 3, Guardado Files For Free Agency, Narron Out http://www.red-hot-mama.com/2007/11/02/reds-retain-3-guardado-files-for-free-agency-narron-out/ It sounds like porn, but it's all about baseball. Thu, 12 Jan 2012 03:38:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: KC2HMZ http://www.red-hot-mama.com/2007/11/02/reds-retain-3-guardado-files-for-free-agency-narron-out/comment-page-1/#comment-11420 KC2HMZ Sat, 03 Nov 2007 02:22:42 +0000 http://www.red-hot-mama.com/2007/11/02/reds-retain-3-guardado-files-for-free-agency-narron-out/#comment-11420 No sooner do I post that and begin to believe that I've taken care of Reds' news for the day, than the team announces the hiring of two former Reds players to positions in the minor league system. According to the official site, Bill Doran was named minor league infield/baserunning coordinator, and Tom Browning will be pitching coach at extended spring training and in rookie league Billings. I'm always happy to see former Reds players get a shot at coaching in the organization. Guys like Doran and Browning, both of whom won World Series rings with the Reds as members of the 1990 Reds team that swept the Oakland A's in the Fall Classic, are of course no exception. But both have also worked with the Reds before. Doran held various jobs in the organization from 1995-2000 and was Bob Boone's 1B coach in 2001. More recently he was the bench coach in Kansas City and was the interim manager for the Royals at the end of the 2006 season. Browning is in the Reds Hall Of Fame. They especially ought to find a spot somewhere in the organization for a guy like that, even if it's dancing on top of a dugout during the seventh inning stretch. But Browning was a special instructor at spring training shortly after Mr. Castellini bought the team. He must have shown enough promise as a coach that they found him a spot working with the young pitchers. Here's hoping he can help fix the train wreck that the Reds' development of young pitchers has been the past few decades. HMZ No sooner do I post that and begin to believe that I’ve taken care of Reds’ news for the day, than the team announces the hiring of two former Reds players to positions in the minor league system.

According to the official site, Bill Doran was named minor league infield/baserunning coordinator, and Tom Browning will be pitching coach at extended spring training and in rookie league Billings.

I’m always happy to see former Reds players get a shot at coaching in the organization. Guys like Doran and Browning, both of whom won World Series rings with the Reds as members of the 1990 Reds team that swept the Oakland A’s in the Fall Classic, are of course no exception. But both have also worked with the Reds before.

Doran held various jobs in the organization from 1995-2000 and was Bob Boone’s 1B coach in 2001. More recently he was the bench coach in Kansas City and was the interim manager for the Royals at the end of the 2006 season.

Browning is in the Reds Hall Of Fame. They especially ought to find a spot somewhere in the organization for a guy like that, even if it’s dancing on top of a dugout during the seventh inning stretch. But Browning was a special instructor at spring training shortly after Mr. Castellini bought the team. He must have shown enough promise as a coach that they found him a spot working with the young pitchers. Here’s hoping he can help fix the train wreck that the Reds’ development of young pitchers has been the past few decades.

HMZ

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