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Bryan Price accepted a one-year contract

as pitching coach with the Arizona Diamondbacks on Monday

after determining he wasn't a serious candidate for the job

to manage the Florida Marlins.

 

??My feeling was somewhere in the last couple of days it

just didn't look like I would be involved, that I was going

to be a consideration for the managerial position,'' Price

said in a conference call on Monday.

 

Price, who lives in nearby Scottsdale, said he also spoke

with new Detroit manager Jim Leyland about the pitching coach

job there, but decided the Diamondbacks were the best fit. He

will be reunited with manager Bob Melvin ? the two were

together for two years in Seattle.

 

Price, 43, spent 18 years with the Mariners organization,

the last six as pitching coach.

 

Price said he planned to talk to all the Arizona pitchers

through the offseason. He won't, however, try to contact

Javier Vazquez, who is deciding whether to exercise a clause

in his contract to demand a trade.

 

He will talk with Vazquez only if the pitcher wants to

contact him, he said.

 

??He has some decisions to make,'' Price said. ??I'd like

to make myself available to him if he has some questions

about me or what he an expect from me as a coach. I know the

organization and myself would love to have him on the

staff.''

 

But, Price said, ??I'm the new guy. He doesn't know me.''

 

Price said his relationship with Melvin was a major factor

in his decision to join the Diamondbacks.

 

??I know what I'm getting into here. I know what Bob's

expectations are of me as a pitching coach,'' he said. ??I

know how badly he wants to win and how he prepares to win. We

work well together that way. Beyond that, we're great

friends, and I think great friendships are built on great

trust. We've established that in our two years together in

Seattle.''

I hope that's a sign that Wiley is closer to staying.

I hope that's a sign that Wiley is closer to staying.

 

 

Actually it might, and I emphasize the word "might", be the beginning of a game of musical chairs where Wiley goes to Seattle and Patterson or Stottlemeyer comes here through the hiring of Girardi.

I hope that's a sign that Wiley is closer to staying.

 

 

Actually it might, and I emphasize the word "might", be the beginning of a game of musical chairs where Wiley goes to Seattle and Patterson or Stottlemeyer comes here through the hiring of Girardi.

While I'd like Wiley to stay, I certainly wouldn't be upset if Stottlemyre were to be the pitching coach instead.

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