TORONTO -- The starting rotation was identified as the weak link in the Blue Jays disappointing 2013 season but the men in charge of improving batting in recent seasons paid the price Monday. The 73-89 American League East team announced that hitting coach Chad Mottola and first base coach Dwayne Murphy would not be back with the major league staff. Mottola just completed his first season as the Jays hitting coach, a job Murphy held from 2010 to 2012. Bench coach DeMarlo Hale, pitching coach Pete Walker, third-base coach Luis Rivera and bullpen coach Pat Hentgen will return in their current roles under manager John Gibbons, the team said in a statement. Rivera was promoted from coaching assistant to third base coach for the 2013 season. Hale came over from the Baltimore Orioles while Walker moved from bullpen coach to succeed Bruce Walton as pitching coach. The Jays had a team batting average of .252 last season, 15th in the majors. Toronto was fourth in home runs with 185 and 11th in RBIs with 669, and the team had the sixth fewest strikeouts. In his season review, general manager Alex Anthopoulos pointed the finger at instability in the starting rotation as the teams biggest problem. The teams expected starting rotation -- R.A. Dickey, Mark Buehrle, Brandon Morrow, Josh Johnson and Ricky Romero -- cost US$46.75 million in salaries in 2013 and finishing with a combined 30-36 record. Dickey and Buehrle accounted for 26 of those wins. At the plate, catcher J.P. Arencibia regressed. Arencibia slugged 21 home runs but hit just .194 and struck out 148 times in 2013. Other Jays hitters also had bumpy times at the plate. Murphy, 58, batted .246 with 166 homers and 609 RBIs in 1,360 games with Oakland, Detroit and Philadelphia, winning six Gold Glove Awards as an outfielder. He joined the Jays system as a coach in January 2005, eventually becoming roving hitting instructor. He was named Torontos first base coach in June 2008 and added hitting coach duties for the 2010 season when the Jays hit a record 257 home runs. This season, he served as first base and outfield coach while yielding hitting duties to Mottola. Mottola, 41, began his coaching career in the Blue Jays system in 2007 after concluding a 16-year playing career that included 59 major-league and 1,801 minor-league games. A former first-round pick, he hit 239 homers in the minor leagues and four in the majors. He spent three seasons as hitting coach for the Jays Class-AAA farm team, then located in Las Vegas, before being promoted to the big club. Maurice Richard Jersey . - Golden State Warriors coach Mark Jackson sat on the scorers table at Oracle Arena on Wednesday morning. 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Jones has been criticised after Sam Jones and Anthony Watson suffered serious injuries during the camp, ruling them out of the autumn international series and a significant portion of the domestic season.Wasps Jones broke his right leg and suffered ankle damage during a judo session and the flanker is out for five months, while Baths Watson sustained a broken jaw during a full-bore training session last Tuesday. Exeter have also claimed that England told them Jack Nowell only had a minor injury but a subsequent club scan revealed a nine-to-10 centimetre tear in his thigh. Sam Jones (L) broke his leg during a judo session at the England camp Chiefs director of rugby Rob Baxter, who will attend the meeting on Thursday alongside his 11 counterparts, officials from Premiership Rugby and the RFU, and England boss Jones, described the revelation as disappointing while Saracens director of rugby Mark McCall said the timing of the get together was flabbergasting. Watch NOW TV Watch Sky Sports for just ?￡6.99. No contract. Premiership Rugby released a statement on Friday that questioned player welfare and said: England should not be doing full training sessions straight after a Premiership weekend. Anthony Watson is sidelined with a broken jaw The RFU leapt to the defence of Jones, insisting the heavy sessions are written into the professional game agreement, and Wasps director of rugby Dai Young insisted all parties should come together to find a resolution.ddddddddddddThis cannot be England against the clubs. We cannot be against each other. We have to be together. There cant be a big brother in this relationship, he said after his side were beaten by Saracens on Sunday. Wasps director of rugby Dai Young will be without Sam Jones for five months Theyre not more important than us and were not more important than them. We have to work together and thats the biggest message. The last thing we should do is create a wedge between the national set-up and the clubs.Accidents happen and Im sure well review it, and hopefully there will be things we can change and have a view on. We all want a strong national team and we all want strong Premiership teams. Its really important that we all keep working in the same direction. This may be a bump in the road, but Im sure that we can pull together and get things right and move forward.You can watch Englands tour of Bangladesh, plus Premier League football and the British Masters on Sky Sports. Upgrade now and enjoy three months at half price! 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