Brian’s podcast discussion of Shildt and Budaska reminded me of something Goold mentioned in his Q&A chatwrap yesterday.
Goold responded to a question about Budaska working with players by saying that he would, if the players were open to it.
When asked to clarify, Goold mentioned that some (many?) players have their own personal coach with whom they work. He specifically mentioned both Ozuna and Fowler as having their own coaches as well as a couple of others whose names I’m not remembering. Said that players had to be open to working with St Louis’ hitting coach(es) as well. Goold was very careful to stress that he wasn’t trying to imply that any particular players wouldn’t work with Budaska, merely that outside coaches were used.