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SEATTLE -- Third-base coach Bruce Hines is the only Seattle Mariners coach not returning in 2010.
Hines, 51, was told last week that he wasn't being retained, although neither general manager Jack Zduriencik nor manager Don Wakamatsu has yet discussed the firing -- or the reasoning behind it -- other than to say they wanted to go in a "different direction."
The team extended bench coach Ty Van Burkleo, pitching coach Rick Adair, batting coach Alan Cockrell, first base/outfield coach Lee Tinsley and bullpen coach John Wetteland.
Hines, who worked with Mariners infielders in 2009, is the son of former Seattle coach Ben Hines. He was, he said, "absolutely devastated" by the decision.
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