Levine: Cubs Pitching Coach Bosio May Be Sought By Twins
By Bruce Levine--
(CBS) -- According to numerous sources Paul Molitor will be named the manager of the Minnesota Twins on Tuesday. The Hall of Fame infielder will want a coaching staff of the best and brightest people in the game, entering his first venture into managing.
The coaching staff he wants to put together will more than likely have a late 1970's early 1980's Milwaukee Brewer flavor, if Molitor has his way. Some names of his closest and most respected former teammates who are sure to be on his list are Ted Simmons ,Pete Vuckovich, Robin Yount, Dale Sveum and Chris Bosio.
On that list, everyone except Yount was under contract to different clubs in 2014. Simmons and Vuckovich were the top advisers to Seattle general manager Jack Zduriencik the last three seasons. Sveum was the third base coach-batting coach for the American League champion Kansas City Royals and Bosio has been the Chicago Cubs pitching coach for the last three seasons.
Proper handling of baseball people under contract, starts with a general manager asking another club for permission to talk to a coach or in this instance special adviser as well, who is under contract. In the cases of Sveum and Bosio, both have contracts for 2015 with their present teams.
All of the aforementioned baseball people have remained extremely close friends since there playing days in Milwaukee. Bosio has done a terrific job with the young Cub staff since coming to the team as Sveum's pitching coach in 2012. To the Cubs credit they believed that Bosio had helped set the tone for the pitching in the organization and rehired him, despite firing Sveum, one of his best friends, as manager in October of 2013.
The wild card for Bosio will be the hiring of Joe Maddon as the Cubs' new manager. Nobody knows what Maddon has in mind for his coaching staff at this juncture. The Tampa Rays have said the entire coaching staff that Maddon left behind will be returning under one year contracts that ran concurrently with Maddon's. The Cubs announced their coaching staff for 2015 before they knew that Maddon was available.
