Chuck Hernandez
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"Carlo Amado "Chuck" Hernandez" is a coach in Major League Baseball. He has served as pitching coach for the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim/California Angels (1993–96), Tampa Bay Devil Rays (2004–05), and Detroit Tigers (2006–08). In , he served as the bullpen coach for the Cleveland Indians, but was fired along with Manager Eric Wedge and the rest of the staff at the season's end. Hernandez was then pitching coach for the GCL Phillies. He is currently pitching coach for the Miami Marlins.

Prior to his coaching career, he played in the New York Yankees minor league system from 1979 to 1983. He also played part of the 1983 season in the Chicago White Sox system. A broken arm that year ended his playing career.

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I don't think it's that unusual for young pitchers starting out to struggle a little bit.

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The game has changed. Now they take the ball from you after six, seven or eight innings.

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[During the 2004 season,] he seemed to be trying to show everybody what he could do, probably throwing every pitch as hard as he could. Now he's learned that there's nothing wrong with 93, 94 on the corner, either. I think he's thinking more like a pitcher instead of just trying to throw the ball by every single hitter.

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Complete games are not our priority. If it happens, that'd be great.

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He's a very good athlete, first of all. It looks like things come pretty easily to him. He has a great arm and great stuff.

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I have to get a feel for knowing these guys. I'm not that brilliant of a coach, I'll be the first to tell you. But I know that the more I see someone, the smarter I'll get and the more I'll learn. I have six weeks to watch it live and in person. Tapes are tapes.

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You could see it in the way he talks. He has an aggressive nature, and there's nothing wrong with that.

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They gave us an opportunity to look. At no point did they step in and say we don't want you to do this or that. They left us free to make our own decision.

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I like his chances down the road. When that will happen, I don't think any of us will need to answer. We'll just all observe and let the player tell us if the time is right. If the time is not right, it's no sin for him to be pitching down in the minor leagues.

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