[Dudd]

What exactly did you find in your experiences inside minor league clubhouses? I was a batboy for one season in AAA, and at least as far as I could tell, the manager pretty much spent 90% of his time in his office and the other 10% of the time wandering around by the spread making the occasional off hand remark to one of the players, something along the lines of good at bats yesterday, generic nothings. There was little direct coaching done that I could see, primarily just bullpen sessions and cage sessions taken care of by the hitting/pitching coaches. Granted, this was in the Orioles system, so maybe an actual competent major league system is different, but I saw nothing that stood out to me as something that anyone with decent people skills and good baseball knowledge couldn't do, provided they had the same staffs underneath them for direct coaching.