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Originally Posted by BIG17EASY

One of the problems with this idea is that not all organizations handle coaches the same way. One team might have a coach on the big league staff dedicated to working with the catchers (Mick Billmeyer in Philly, for instance), whereas a different organization might have a roving catching instructor who spends a week or two at a time with each team in the organization. Or a certain bench coach could also be the guy who works with the outfielders or infielders, or maybe the third base coach or first base coach has those responsibilities. Davey Lopes, who was with the Phillies and now the Dodgers, is a first base coach, but he's also arguably the best baserunning coach in the game. Don Zimmer famously helped Joe Torre manage the bullpen while working as the bench coach in New York.

Plus, there are way too many variables to this scenario to make it worthwhile. For example, say you have a first base coach like Lopes who has the opinion of Player X (since coaching opinions are important to the OP) that he's a really good base runner. How does Markus then code game so the third base coach uses this information from the first base coach to in turn be more aggressive with Player X scoring on hits, sac flies, etc. than Player Y or Player Z?

I agree, we don't need that kind of nuance, but maybe have each of these positions for every team.