Camp Roger

Everyone seems to be responding well to the Braves new pitching coach, Roger McDowell. There is also the scent of anti-Leo sentiment in the air. Tim Hudson doesn’t seem to have lost any sleep over Leo leaving, as he has implied several times. The big differences between McDowell and Mazzone seems to be that Leo was an ‘old school’ kind of coach, who may have been looked down upon sometimes because he never pitched in the big leagues. Whereas McDowell is one of the new breed of pitching coaches who worries just as much about the pitchers’ mental ability to throw as his physical delivery of pitches. He also seems to be getting more instant credit for having been a former Major League pitcher.