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Note: Dan Warthen and Ken Oberkfell

by Matthew Cerrone on June 19th, 2008 at 4:12 pm

Jerry Manuel had the following to say reporters about the team’s new pitching coach, Dan Warthen, prior to last night’s game:

“My first year here, remember, we had a lot of guys called up from Triple-A, pitchers that I had saw in spring training, and I noticed a significant difference in their performance…I thought I had to give him credit for that.”

…as i mentioned yesterday in a video with Ted Berg, from what i can gather, warthen is essentially a 180–degree turn Rick Peterson…it was put to me this way: where rick has a master philosophy, and he wants a pitcher to adjust and fit it in to his plan, dan has no philosophy other than to maximize the individual strength or each individual pitcher

On last night’s pre game show, SNY’s Kevin Burkhardt talked with the team’s new first base coach, Ken Oberkfell, which you can watch by clicking play below: