by Amaury Pi Gonzalez

photo credit: Bing Images former SF Giant Barry Bonds press conference spring training during his playing days

It’s looking more likely that former San Francisco Giants outfielder Barry Bonds will get a position as a hitting coach of the Miami Marlins. Frank Menechino who is currently the hitting coach in Miami is expected to stay on for the 2016 season and the Marlins will use two batting coaches.

Sources say that the Marlins will monitor how things would work using two batting coaches and see how the players respond to the two coaches. The Marlins who are looking for improvement in hitting up and down the line up and wanting to get some numbers that could lead them to post season is a work in progress.

Bonds whose expertise in hitting would come with some value. Bonds was noted for pointing out what pitch was coming before a pitcher threw it and sometimes can even tell if a hitter was going to connect based on how the pitcher was throwing. He also used to be able to chart where a pitcher was going to throw the ball in certain situations in the count.

Bonds however has a cloud of suspicion hanging over him with his use of steroids and drug enhancements that he claimed he didn’t know he was using during his days in San Francisco. Bonds has been the face of the steroids era and teams balked at picking him up for any kind of job. The Marlins are sensing the time is right and would like to see how the media, the fans, the players, the front offices and MLB officials respond to baseball’s all time home run leader returning to the game since he retired in 2007.

Amuary Pi Gonzalez is the vice president of the Major League Baseball Hispanic Heritage Museum and does News and Commentary each week at http://www.sportsradioservice.com