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The St. Louis Cardinals have made a change at hitting coach hiring Chase Merkerson and letting Bill Mueller go.
Mueller, 59, joined the team during the 2029 season and helped them make the playoffs.
But the team never hit for average -- checking in at a .229 clip over 122 games and it got worse this season as after 35 games they are hitting .208 (15th).
Specializing in helping power hitters, that has not translated either.
The Cardinals 45 home runs rank sixth in the NL, but many of their players are well off their power numbers of a year ago.
Merkerson, 62, has never worked at the major-league level before but he did spent two seasons with the Cardinals in their Dominican Summer League site.