McGwire as Hitting Coach?

ESPN.com is reporting that Mark McGwire is going to be the next hitting coach for the St. Louis Cardinals.

Is this really a good idea?

Listen, I don't even care about the steroids issue. Seriously, I don't. What McGwire did was probably illegal by the laws of the country, but not by the rules of baseball. While that doesn't justify what he did, I sometimes feel that McGwire is being unfairly criticized as the poster child for something that a lot more people were doing as well. Baseball also turned a blind eye to the whole thing when they could have easily stepped in.

The reason that I'm questioning this move is because McGwire wasn't that good of a hitter. His career average was .263, and that would be a heck of a lot lower without all the home runs he hit late in his career. He's arguably the most one-dimensional hitter of all time, and I'm saying this as a McGwire fan.

I just don't know that I want a guy who had more homers than singles one season as the guy instructing my players on the finer art of hitting. If you throw in the whole steroids issue, I think this makes it an even worse move.