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Originally Posted by tomwolf2008
I'll have to say though there needs to be more evidence than this to suggest that base-coaches actually mattered. Just because players and bench coaches agree that "he is the reason we stole so many bases" doesn't make it true. Is there an analysis that say, the base coaches people agrees are the best has higher SB% than those whose supposedly not as good?
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While I don't disagree that it'd be preferable to have more evidence, I'd ask this: If base coaches don't matter, why does every MLB (Not to mention ***, KBO etc. etc.) team, even those devoted to analytics, continue to employ them?
Clearly every single professional baseball team thinks they do matter. So what would make you think they don't matter?