Larry Parrish expected to be announced as Braves hitting coach.

The news it out on the wire that the Braves will soon announce Larry Parrish as their new hitting coach. It appears that the finalists were Parrish and former Braves third baseman Jim "Hound Dog" Presley. Presley was on Freddi Gonzalez's staff in Florida and it would have been ironic to have the third baseman that Terry Pendleton replaced, replace him as hitting coach. 

Presley appears on the brink of signing on with Buck Showalter's Orioles. 

For those of you who don't know(or weren't born yet) Parrish was a slugging third baseman/outfielder primarily for the Expos and Rangers and was a two time All-Star. He finished up his career in Japan in 1990.

It's a bit ironic that both of the men interview to replace Terry Pendleton were more power hitters than he was. Perhaps that is a statement about the direction that they hope to be going in the future. Parrish was most recently a manager for the Tigers AAA team the Toledo Mud Hens.

He was briefly the Tigers manager in 1998-1999 compiling an 82-104 record in that time. He has only served as a hitting coach briefly as a traveling instructor, but the brass seem to think that he is the best man for the job, and his hitting credentials as a player were impressive.