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chowbow December 21st, 2007

I omitted a long rble Pettis and I had around him becoming a switch-hitter; in short, when he showed up at cp after being drafted by the California Angels, the coaching staff unilaterally decided he would not been an outfielder, but a shortstop (the Angels had some higher-profile outfield prospects then, but tended to use acquired veteran stars out there), and that as of the day he arrived, he would become a switch-hitter. In the latter, he would not get much coaching — they just figured he’d figure it out. He did just well enough to make it to the majors that way, though his offensive production was really justified by his Gold Gloves and his base-running and base-stealing prowess. acoustic daddario guitar string
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The Angels shot themselves in both feet by not investing more in training. They counted on him to train himself, as he had been doing batting right-handed, when they could have adjusted him years earlier. Understand, the worst Major League Baseball te invests more in ongoing training and coaching than the average corporation or government agency. But even with all their efforts, they shorted themselves. Because if Gary Pettis could have started producing a .375 on-base percentage in 1985 at age 27, he would have been on base for them about an extra 50 times in the next three years, affording them more opportunities to use his base-running ability to score runs for his te. Perhaps they would have had to trade him or if they had, they might have gotten someone more valuable than Dan Petry (who stunk up the majors for a few more years and then was gone).

NOTE: You may notice Pettis regressed the following year. I wanted to ask him about it but our conversation was cut short because he needed to get to work. If I get to talk with him again, I’ll ask him why.

The two lessons here, though are: (1) There’s always at least one more valuable thing to learn and get better at, even when you’ve been working at a position for a long time, and (2) The organization always leaves signficant gains on the table when it pimps on quality training that’s customized to each contributor.