FWIW i was at a coaching clinic this weekend and one of the coaches was a guy that had been a MLB coach, and still worked as a hitting consultant. He told a story about how Greg Maddux called his own pitches, and that former catchers and team mates did not share the method since maddux was so respected. he said, "Had it been Pedro Martinez, it would never worked." He stated Pedro was known as a bad team mate, and credited the Red Sox with getting the most out of him, and allowing him to have a great career, and a good public image despite being disrespectful towards team mates.
The coach was very complementary of Pedro the pitcher, saying his metal toughness, was legendary, pointing to how he pitched well for Philly with at times below average stuff.
I asked the question about Pedro helping the Sox woes, and he said his info was Pedro was impatient, and not very effective as a coach. He said coaching is grind, and a guy with Pedro's money has no incentive, unless he wants to manage, to put in the hours to become a coach. He said it is not like the movies where you notice a technical flaw and the guy fixes it. He said there are thousands of guys who can look at film of (he used Clay as an example) and see what he is doing wrong, and he said Clay himself will know, but being able to help the guy fix it is an entirely different skill. The guy hinted he had heard Pedro privately admitted "not getting" guys that don't trust their stuff. He also thought that it was unfair to say about Buchholz and other athletes, "Just have confidence like Pedro" since he saw Pedro's personality, which made him supremely confident, and a pain in the ass to play with, was as god give, maybe more so that his arm.
Quick aside he was asked who had the worst rep as a team mate and he said, "without a doubt Arod."
