LOS ANGELES (AP) -Wally Joyner quit Tuesday as hitting coach of the San Diego Padres with six games left in the season.
His departure came with the Padres tied for last in the major leagues in runs and on-base percentage.
Joyner was preparing to go to Los Angeles on Tuesday when general manager Kevin Towers called to say the team preferred he not be there, said Joyner’s agent, Barry Axelrod.
Axelrod said Joyner resigned due to “the frustration level with realizing that his philosophy, his approach, the way he wants to teach hitting just didn’t coincide with what they like to see in the organization. He was hoping as time went by that they could somehow coincide or overcome that, but it became evident that was not going to happen.”
Joyner was hired July 31, 2007, to replace the fired Merv Rettenmund.
The Padres will be looking for their fourth hitting coach in as many seasons.
World Series in 1998, when they were swept by the New York Yankees.
He had a .289 batting average in his 16-season big league career, with 204 homers and 1,106 RBIs.
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