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Don't Worry About Alex Rios, Greg Walker is on the case
southsidesox.com - 10/29/2009
Don't Worry About Alex Rios, Greg Walker is on the case
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More photos » by Elaine Thompson - AP Alex Rios is pulling off the ball just a tad... Browse more photos » Alex Rios has $58.7M left on his contract, is coming off a season ...
Walker: 'I know if I was in a normal situation I probably would have been fired after this year.'
blogs.suntimes.com - 10/29/2009
Walker: 'I know if I was in a normal situation I probably would have been fired after this year.'
— blogs.suntimes.com — Greg Walker knows the reality of it. Hal McRae, Carney Lansford, Von Joshua - just the latest... casualties of a career that has the life expectancy slightly better than that of an adult mayfly. No, make no mistake about it,... (more) Walker: 'I know if I was in a normal situation I ...

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South Side Sox: Don’t Worry About Alex Rios, Greg Walker is on the case
BBTF's Baseball Primer Newsblog — South Side Sox: Don’t Worry About Alex Rios, Greg Walker is on the case No Gimmick . . . Just Real Hitting Science! Alex Rios has $58.7M left on his contract, is coming off a season in which he hit .199/.229/.301 after joining the White Sox, and has, at times, appeared completely lost at the plate. But don’t worry, Greg Walker is planning a special trip to Puerto Rico help turn Rios around. As the Sox slipped further out of the race in September, Rios channeled ‘06 Brian Anderson and I plotted a post about the Sox most important off-season acquisition; a new hitting coach. ...

Friday Notes
Viva El Birdos — ... Sister blog South Side Sox has its own reasons to wonder about the value of hitting coaches—in this case, of standing pat following Alex Rios's disastrous first year in Chicago. I'm not extremely familiar with the situation, but the case against Greg Walker seems to be the case against Hal McRae and, to be fair, most hitting coaches who find the welcome wagon revoked: in the face of a systemic offensive collapse, he... continued to be Greg Walker. The blog entry's in reaction to another blog entry, this one from the  ...

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