Skip Schumaker’s coaching staff for 2023 announced
The Miami Marlins on Tuesday finalized their teaching employees for the 2023 season below Manager Skip Schumaker, together with three returning coaches in Bullpen Coach Wellington Cepeda, Bullpen Coordinator Rob Flippo, and Pitching Coach Mel Stottlemyre Jr.. Rod Barajas (Field Coordinator), Griffin Benedict (Quality Assurance Coach), Brant Brown (Hitting Coach), Jon Jay (First Base/Outfield Coach), John Mabry (Assistant Hitting Coach), Jody Reed (Third Base/Infield Coach) and Luis Urueta (Bench Coach) are becoming a member of the Marlins’ Major League teaching employees.
Barajas joins Miami’s teaching employees because the Major League Field Coordinator after working as a Catching Coordinator within the Angels’ Minor League system in 2022. Prior to Los Angeles, Barajas spent 9 years with the Padres group, together with six with the Major League membership. He coached in numerous capacities throughout his time in San Diego, together with Bench Coach in 2019 and later that yr because the membership’s interim supervisor for eight video games. As a participant, he performed for 14 Major League seasons throughout six completely different organizations, together with the 2001 World Series champion Arizona Diamondbacks.
Benedict involves Miami from the Chicago Cubs group, the place he served because the Iowa Cubs’ Hitting Coach for 2 seasons (2021-22). Previously, Benedict spent 10 seasons as Bullpen Catcher and a Major League Instructor for the San Diego Padres, the staff that chosen him within the sixteenth spherical of the 2009 First-Year Player Draft. He performed components of two Minor League seasons earlier than transitioning to the teaching facet. Benedict additionally contributed to the Padres scouting division for seven years.
Brown returns to the Marlins group because the membership’s Major League Hitting Coach, becoming a member of Miami after serving as one of many hitting coaches for the Los Angeles Dodgers the final three seasons. The Dodgers offense ranked within the high three in each runs scored and OPS in every of the three campaigns. Before his time in Los Angeles, Brown coached 5 seasons within the Seattle Mariners group (2013-17) and 6 seasons with the Texas Rangers (2007-12). The former big-league outfielder break up his enjoying profession between the Cubs (1996-1998, 2000), Pirates (1999), and Marlins (2000).
Cepeda will enter his fourth season as Miami’s Bullpen Coach. Cepeda coached 16 skilled seasons with Arizona previous to his transfer to Miami, working because the Rookie League Manager in 2019 and as a Minor League Pitching Coach and Coordinator via their system from 2001 to 2018. As a participant, he spent all 4 years of his skilled profession with the Diamondbacks.
Flippo will start his fifth season as Miami’s Bullpen Coordinator. Before coming to the Marlins, he spent 16 seasons because the Bullpen Catcher and Practice Pitcher for the Dodgers. His first skilled teaching task was as a bullpen coach for the Dodgers’ Single-A affiliate in 2001, and previous to that had coached 5 seasons on the collegiate stage with Fresno State University and University of North Carolina-Wilmington. Born in Lodi, California, Flippo performed one season {of professional} baseball with the Dodgers’ group in 1989.
Jay returns to baseball because the Marlins’ First Base and Outfield Coach for his first skilled teaching place after retiring as a participant in 2021. The Miami-native and University of Miami Sports Hall of Fame member performed 12 years within the large leagues with eight completely different organizations, together with six seasons with the Cardinals from 2010-15. Jay, a 2011 World Series champion with St. Louis alongside former teammate Skip Schumaker, batted .283 with a .348 on-base proportion in 1,201 profession video games and posted a .996 fielding proportion throughout all three outfield positions.
Mabry joins the Marlins because the staff’s Assistant Hitting Coach after serving as a Major League Coach with the Royals for the final three seasons. Previously, Mabry spent seven seasons teaching within the Cardinals’ group, because the Assistant Hitting Coach in 2012 after which as Hitting Coach from 2013-18. St. Louis’s offense batted .330 with runners in scoring place in 2013, which stands as the best mark within the Majors because the begin of the Modern Era (1901-Present). Mabry was chosen by St. Louis within the sixth spherical of the 1991 MLB Draft and performed 14 seasons within the Majors. He spent nearly all of his profession with the Cardinals (1994-1998, 2001, and 2004-05). In his first full season in 1995, he hit a career-best .307 in 129 video games and in 1996 set career-highs in video games performed (151), hits (161), doubles (30), and RBI (74).
Reed will turn out to be the Marlins’ Third Base and Infield Coach after spending the final two seasons because the membership’s Minor League Infield and Baserunning Coordinator. Prior to working for the Marlins, Reed spent 9 years within the Yankees group, as a Minor League coach from 2007-10, and later because the Field Coordinator from 2014-19. He additionally spent three years teaching within the Dodgers’ Minor League system from 2011-13. He performed 11 Major League seasons with the Red Sox (1987-92), Dodgers (1993), Brewers (1994), Padres (1995-96), and Tigers (1997). Reed tallied an American League-leading 45 doubles in 1990 and is one in all three gamers in Red Sox historical past to report no less than 40 doubles in three-or-more consecutive seasons (1989-91), becoming a member of Wade Boggs (7, 1985-91) and Mookie Betts (4, 2015-18). Primarily a second baseman, Reed posted a profession .985 fielding proportion in over 1,000 video games on the place.
Stottlemyre Jr. will return as Pitching Coach for his fifth season with the membership and ninth season as a Major League Pitching Coach. In his first 4 years as pitching coach, Marlins pitchers have set numerous single-season membership information, together with a club-best 1,437 strikeouts and 1.27 WHIP in 2022 to beat out the earlier bests set in 2021. Prior to Miami, Stottlemyre Jr. spent three seasons because the Mariners’ Pitching Coach from 2016-18 and 14 seasons teaching within the Arizona Diamondbacks group. After being chosen within the first spherical of the 1985 MLB Draft, he pitched in six Minor League seasons within the Houston and Kansas City organizations, together with a short stint within the Majors with the Royals in 1990.
Urueta will be part of the membership as Miami’s Bench Coach after spending 21 years with the Arizona Diamondbacks. He served 5 years as a Major League coach with Arizona, together with two seasons as their Bench Coach from 2020-21 and as Coordinator, Major League Player Development and Instruction in 2022. The former first baseman performed in components of six seasons within the Diamondbacks’ Minor League system earlier than becoming a member of their teaching employees in 2007. Born in Baranquilla, Colombia, Urueta served as Manager of Team Colombia within the 2017 World Baseball Classic, which performed its video games at loanDepot park.
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