San Diego Padres announce coaching staff members today From manager Mike Shildt for the 2024 campaign.
- Ruben Niebla – Throwing Coach
- Ben Fritz – Bullpen Coach
- Tim Leeper – third base coach, infield and on-base running instructor
- David Macias – first base coach, outfield and base running instructor
- Victor Rodriguez – Hitting Coach
- Mike McCoy – Assistant Hitting Coach
- Pat O’Sullivan – Assistant Batting Coach
- Brian Esposito – Catching Coach and Game Strategy Assistant
- Ryan Barba – Major League Field Coordinator
- Peter Somerville – Coaching and Game Planning Assistant
- Heberto Andrade – bullpen catcher and assistant coach
- Morgan Burkhardt – Major League assistant coach
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FogThe 52-year-old returns for his third season as the San Diego Padres pitching coach after overseeing a pitching staff that finished the 2023 season with the second-lowest ERA (3.86) in the majors. He helped guide Blake Snell to the San Diego Padres’ fifth Cy Young Award in franchise history, while Snell and reliever Josh Hader earned First Team All-MLB honors.
FritzThe 42-year-old begins his tenth season with the San Diego Padres organization and his fifth season as a bullpen coach at the Major League level. Under Fritz in 2023, the Padres bullpen was fourth among all NL relief staffs in ERA (3.58) and H/9.0 IP ratio (7.81), fourth in HR/9.0 IP (1.01), fourth in opponents’ average Was fifth in slugging (. 233) and sixth in WHIP (1.29).
leaperThe 57-year-old joins the Padres coaching staff as third base coach, fielding and baserunning instructor after spending the last four seasons (2020-23) with the San Francisco Giants as the base running coordinator in the outfield and their player development system Are. From December 2013 to the 2018 season, Leeper was the first base coach of the Toronto Blue Jays.
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maciasThe 37-year-old returned for his third season as the Padres’ first base coach, outfield and base running instructor, and in 2023, helped Fernando Tatis Jr. win the San Diego Padres’ first Platinum Glove and the first National League pitcher to win it. Became an outfielder. He was part of the East Carolina University coaching staff in 2021 as an assistant coach after spending the previous four seasons coaching at Vanderbilt University under Tim Corbin.
rodriguezThe 62-year-old joins the Padres coaching staff as hitting coach after spending the last six seasons (2018-23) as the assistant hitting coach for the Cleveland Guardians. 2024 will mark his 48th season in professional baseball as a player, trainer or coach. He spent five seasons (2013–17) in the same position with the Boston Red Sox.
McCoy, 42, joins the Major League coaching staff as an assistant hitting coach for his ninth season in the Padres organization, and most recently served as the Minor League hitting coordinator for the past two years (2022–2020). The San Diego, California native served as manager of Single-A Lake Elsinore for the 2021 campaign after managing Single-A Tri-City in 2019.
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o’sullivanThe 46-year-old joins the Major League coaching staff as an assistant hitting coach for his seventh season in the San Diego Padres organization, and most recently served as the hitting coach for Double-A San Antonio in 2023. The Oak Lawn, Illinois native served in the same position for Lake Elsinore for two seasons (2021-22) after originally joining the organization as the Single-A Tri-City hitting coach from 2018-19. .
espositoThe 44-year-old returns to the Major League coaching staff as a catchers coach and game strategy assistant for his third season with the organization after joining the Padres in 2022 as manager of Single-A Fort Wayne. The native of Staten Island, New York spent the past nine seasons (2013–21) in the Pittsburgh Pirates organization, most recently as the manager of Triple-A Indianapolis from 2018–19 and 2021, while at the Pirates’ alternate training site in 2020. Spent. In Altoona.
BeardThe 39-year-old joined the major league coaching staff as the major league field coordinator for his third season in the Padres organization. He originally joined the Padres as a minor league infield coordinator in 2022 before serving as the assistant field coordinator/infield coordinator for the 2023 season.
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SomervilleThe 32-year-old returns for his sixth season on a major league coaching staff and third as an assistant coach and game planner, after spending the previous four seasons as a bullpen catcher/assistant coach. Somerville played four years collegiately at Santa Clara University, was signed by the Los Angeles Dodgers as a minor league free agent in 2016 and spent two seasons (2017–18) with the Dodgers as a development coach.
andradeThe 57-year-old has returned to the San Diego Padres for his third season as a bullpen catcher and assistant coach, after spending the last 18 seasons with the Pittsburgh Pirates. The form also includes the last three seasons. Andrade spent three years (1986–88) as a catcher in the Chicago Cubs’ farm system and played professional baseball in Venezuela, Italy, and Colombia before retiring as a player in 1996.
burkhartThe 51-year-old begins his twelfth season with the Padres organization and his fourth season on a Major League coaching staff as an assistant coach. The native of St. Louis, Missouri, originally joined the Padres in 2013 and has been on the coaching staff at all levels of the club’s farm system, including Single-A Fort Wayne (2013–14), Double-A San Antonio (2015) and include. Triple-A El Paso (2016–19).
Information taken from MLB Press Box/San Diego Padres,