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PHILADELPHIA -- The Philadelphia Phillies have hired Matt Stairs to be their new hitting coach. Jean Carlos Mejia Indians Jersey .Stairs played parts of 19 seasons in the major leagues with 12 different franchises, including the 2008 World Series champion Phillies. He spent the past three seasons as an analyst on the teams television broadcasts.The 48-year-old Stairs replaces Steve Henderson. Stairs batted .262 with 265 home runs, 899 RBIs, a .356 on-base percentage and a .477 slugging percentage in 1,895 career games. This is his first coaching job at the professional level.Two other coaches have new roles. Rick Kranitz, formerly the bullpen coach, is now the assistant pitching coach. John McLaren, formerly the catching coach, is now the bullpen coach.The rest of the staff includes Larry Bowa (bench), Bob McClure (pitching), Mickey Morandini (first base) and Juan Samuel (third base). Manny Ramirez Jersey .875,000, avoiding arbitration. Clippards deal Monday means all eight Nationals players who filed for arbitration wound up settling before a hearing. Aaron Civale Indians Jersey . But Bourque, who has missed three games with a lower-body injury, wont be in the lineup when the Habs travel to Buffalo to take on the Sabres on Wednesday. https:///...-jersey-indians.html . -- The plastic that was taped across the lockers in Oaklands clubhouse came down and the champagne that was on ice went back into the cooler. BASEL, Switzerland -- Marin Cilic beat Kei Nishikori in straight sets to win the Swiss Indoors title Sunday, a repeat of their 2014 U.S. Open final meeting.The fourth-seeded Croatian raced through the first set in 25 minutes on his way to a 6-1, 7-6 (5) victory, clinching on a double fault by the third-seeded Nishikori of Japan.Cilics second title of the season, and 16th of his career, strengthened his hold on the last qualifying place for the ATP Tour Finals in London.Ranked No. 12 coming to Basel, Cilic rose above Tomas Berdych in the points race earlier this week. The eight-man Finals week lineup is decided at the Paris Masters starting Monday.Sundays final was the first Basel title match in a decade that did not feature hometown favorite Roger Federer. Graig Nettles Jersey. The seven-time Basel champion ended his season early due to injury.Cilic also won on hard courts at Cincinnati in August, and all seven of his singles titles in the past three seasons have been on that surface.The most significant of those titles was his only Grand Slam victory, when he beat Nishikori 6-3, 6-3, 6-3 at Flushing Meadows.Nishikori, who still holds a career mark of 7-5 over Cilic, wasted three chances to force a deciding set Sunday when he led 5-4 in the second. ' ' '