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<blockquote data-quote="pruman91" data-source="post: 1811452" data-attributes="member: 3916"><p>[URL unfurl="true"]https://www.stltoday.com/sports/baseball/professional/blast-from-the-past-holliday-and-jolt-for-the-future-blake-complete-cardinals-staff/article_e4e1416c-83ac-58e6-9b8a-854c4fbe20b1.html[/URL]</p><p></p><p><a href="https://www.stltoday.com/users/profile/dgoold" target="_blank">Derrick Goold</a></p><p>HOUSTON — With his two oldest sons playing together for their only year together as Stillwater Pioneers, batting second and third in the Oklahoma high school’s lineup, there was no chance Matt Holliday was going to be lured away from the amateur ballfields a year ago, no matter how much the Cardinals tried.</p><p>But as Holliday mapped his return to major-league baseball as a coach he recognized whenever he decided to make that jump it was going to mean time away family.</p><p>There was no perfect time.</p><p>So it had to be the perfect fit.</p><p>The Cardinals offered that last week and officially named Holliday their bench coach Sunday. He replaces his former teammate and good friend Skip Schumaker. Holliday joins the stuff run by a close friend, manager Oliver Marmol, and an organization that just a few months ago inducted him into its Hall of Fame, red jacket and all. The four previous people to hold the role of Cardinals bench coach have gone on to become managers, the Miami Marlins in Schumaker’s case.</p><p></p><p>“When I think about what am I going to do with the passion I have for coaching and the passion I have for leading and being around people, what does that look like?” Holliday told the Post-Dispatch on Sunday morning. “This is just such a great opportunity in a lot of ways because I know Oli, Oli is a close friend, and obviously my relationship with the Cardinals organization. Knowing all that I do, it’s just a unique opportunity. I can’t pass it up.”</p><p></p><h2>Other moves</h2><p></p><p>The Cardinals revealed Sunday the entirety of Marmol’s staff for his second season as manager. Two members of this year’s staff, Dusty Blake and Turner Ward, were promoted to pitching and hitting coach, respectively.</p><p></p><p>Blake, 40, replaces widely respected pitching coach Mike Maddux, who elected not to return as he sought a different role and pace from years of travel. Blake came to the Cardinals from Duke for a new position, pitching strategist, and was entrusted in advancing the use of analytics for pitch use, pitch development and pitchers. A former college pitcher, Blake became a trusted voice for pitchers as they looked to understand the statistical underpinnings of what made their pitches work.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="pruman91, post: 1811452, member: 3916"] [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.stltoday.com/sports/baseball/professional/blast-from-the-past-holliday-and-jolt-for-the-future-blake-complete-cardinals-staff/article_e4e1416c-83ac-58e6-9b8a-854c4fbe20b1.html[/URL] [URL='https://www.stltoday.com/users/profile/dgoold']Derrick Goold[/URL] HOUSTON — With his two oldest sons playing together for their only year together as Stillwater Pioneers, batting second and third in the Oklahoma high school’s lineup, there was no chance Matt Holliday was going to be lured away from the amateur ballfields a year ago, no matter how much the Cardinals tried. But as Holliday mapped his return to major-league baseball as a coach he recognized whenever he decided to make that jump it was going to mean time away family. There was no perfect time. So it had to be the perfect fit. The Cardinals offered that last week and officially named Holliday their bench coach Sunday. He replaces his former teammate and good friend Skip Schumaker. Holliday joins the stuff run by a close friend, manager Oliver Marmol, and an organization that just a few months ago inducted him into its Hall of Fame, red jacket and all. The four previous people to hold the role of Cardinals bench coach have gone on to become managers, the Miami Marlins in Schumaker’s case. “When I think about what am I going to do with the passion I have for coaching and the passion I have for leading and being around people, what does that look like?” Holliday told the Post-Dispatch on Sunday morning. “This is just such a great opportunity in a lot of ways because I know Oli, Oli is a close friend, and obviously my relationship with the Cardinals organization. Knowing all that I do, it’s just a unique opportunity. I can’t pass it up.” [HEADING=1]Other moves[/HEADING] The Cardinals revealed Sunday the entirety of Marmol’s staff for his second season as manager. Two members of this year’s staff, Dusty Blake and Turner Ward, were promoted to pitching and hitting coach, respectively. Blake, 40, replaces widely respected pitching coach Mike Maddux, who elected not to return as he sought a different role and pace from years of travel. Blake came to the Cardinals from Duke for a new position, pitching strategist, and was entrusted in advancing the use of analytics for pitch use, pitch development and pitchers. A former college pitcher, Blake became a trusted voice for pitchers as they looked to understand the statistical underpinnings of what made their pitches work. [/QUOTE]
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