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Orioles announce 2025 major league coaching staff

Orioles announce 2025 major league coaching staff

The Orioles today announced their 2025 major league coaching staff, led by the 2023 American League Manager of the Year. BRANDON HYDE in its seventh season. The club named CODY ASH as a hitting coach, ROBINSON CHIRINOS as bench coach, TOMMY JOSEPH as an assistant hitting coach, SHERMAN JOHNSON as an assistant hitting coach/high-level hitting coordinator, and BUCK BRITTON as a major league coach. The remaining coaches remain in their previous positions: GRANT ANDERS as a major league development coach (2nd season), TIM COSSINS as field coordinator/major league catching instructor (7th), DREW FRENCH as a pitching coach (2nd), RYAN KLIMEK as a pitching strategy coach (3district), TONY MANSOLINO as third base coach (5th), MITCH PLASSMEYER as assistant pitching coach (2nd), And ANTHONY SANDERS as first base coach (6th).

Ashe, 34, has spent the last two years as an offensive strategy coach. In 2022, he served as the organization’s top-level hitting coordinator. He played five years in the major leagues for the Philadelphia Phillies (2013–16) and the Chicago White Sox (2017) and ended his professional playing career in 2020 after the minor league season was cancelled. His coaching career began in 2021 with the Phillies as hitting coach at Single-A Clearwater. In 2023, Ashe helped the Orioles become one of the MLB teams in home runs (2nd235), traffic jam percentage (3district.435), total bases (3district2424), OPS (4th0.750), runs scored (4th786), and triples (T-4th33).

Chirinos, 40, joined the Orioles after an 11-year MLB career that began in 2011 with Tampa Bay and ended in 2022 with Baltimore. He batted .226/.319/.419 (480-for-2124) with 114 doubles, five triples, 95 home runs, 275 runs scored, 306 RBIs, 231 walks, 69 hits per inning and five stolen bases in 714 career games with the Tampa Bay Rays » (2011), Texas Rangers (2013-18, 20), Houston Astros (2019), New York Mets (2020), Chicago Cubs (2021) and Orioles (2022). Between 2013 and 2019, he was MLB’s sixth-best starting roster player with a bWAR of 13.0. This will be his first professional coaching position.

Joseph, 33, completed his first season as an MLB coach in 2024 as an assistant hitting coach with the Seattle Mariners. He joined the Mariners after three seasons as a minor league hitting coach with the San Francisco Giants with High-A Eugene in 2023 and the New York Mets for Double-A Binghamton in 2022 and Single-A St. Lucy in 2021. Joseph appeared in 249 MLB games with the Phillies during the 2016-17 season and slashed .247/.297/.460. (200 for 810) with 42 doubles, one triple, 43 home runs, 98 runs scored, 116 RBIs, 55 walks, six hits behind pitches and two stolen bases. He played in the 2012 Futures Game with the Giants and was then acquired by Philadelphia at the trade deadline along with two players in exchange for Hunter Pence on July 31, 2012. Joseph also appeared in the Rangers and Red Sox organizations, as well as one season with the LG Twins of the Korean Baseball Organization and the Texas team of the Constellation Independent Energy League, as part of an 11-year professional playing career from 2010-20.

Britton, 38, joins Baltimore’s major league team after spending the past three seasons as a manager at Triple-A Norfolk, his sixth general manager in the O’s minor league system along with 2019-21 (Double-A Bowie) and 2018 (Single-A). Delmarva). He began his coaching career as Delmarva’s hitting coach in 2017 after a nine-year minor league playing career with the Orioles (2008-14), Los Angeles Dodgers (2015) and Minnesota Twins (2016). Britton led the Tides to the Triple-A National Championship and the International League Championship in 2023 and received the International League Manager of the Year award for his efforts. He also earned Eastern League Manager of the Year honors in 2019 after leading the Baysox to the second league championship series in franchise history. Britton was named the 2021 and 2023 recipient of the Orioles’ Cal Ripken Sr. Player Development Award, given annually to a minor league employee who exemplifies Ripken’s qualities as an instructor. He became only the third multiple winner since the award was established in 2003. This will be Britton’s first coaching position at the MLB level. He is the older brother of the former Orioles pitcher, two-time All-Star and 12-year MLB veteran. ZACK BRITTON.

Johnson, 34, spent last season as the O’s top minor league hitting coordinator. He was the hitting coach at Triple-A Norfolk in 2023, his first professional coaching position after a nine-year playing career with the Los Angeles Angels. (2012-18), Cincinnati Reds (2019) and Twins (2021). He appeared in 10 MLB games with the Angels in 2018. With the Tides in 2023, he helped the offense finish in the top five in the 20-team International League in hits (2nd1384), intermediate level (T-2nd.274), total bases (3district2327), points scored (4th876) and OPS (T-4th.822).

Hyde, 51, is entering his seventh year as manager after leading the Orioles to back-to-back playoff appearances for the first time since 1996-97. Last season, he led the O’s to their third straight winning record for the first time since the 2012-14 season. In 2023, he won the American League Manager of the Year award after leading the Orioles to an AL-best 101–61 record for the first time since 1997, when the O’s finished first in the league. The O’s earned their top ten title in the 2023 season.th AL East title and first since 2014. He is one of only two managers in franchise history to lead a team to a 100-win season, along with EARL WEAVER (6x). He was also recognized Sports news AL Manager of the Year by fellow AL Managers for two consecutive seasons from 2022-23. Under his leadership, several O’s players received votes for AL awards presented by the Baseball Writers Association of America, including Most Valuable Player. GUNNAR HENDERSON (4th in 2024 and 8th in 2023) and ADLIE RUCHMAN (8th in 2023 and ’12th in 2022); Cy Young Award, including CORBIN BURNS (5th in 2024), KYLE BRADISCH (4th in 2023) and FELIX BAUTISTA (11th in 2023); and Rookie of the Year, including COLTON COUSHER (2nd in 2024), Henderson (1st. in 2023) and Ruchman (2nd in 2022). ANTHONY SANTANDER (2024), Henderson and Rutschman (2023), and CEDRIC MULLINS (2021) all won Silver Sluggers, and RAMON URIAS earned a Gold Glove in 2022 under Hyde.

Anders continues his second season as a major league development coach. Cossins is entering his seventh season as a field coordinator/catching instructor in the major leagues and his 24th year.th as a professional MLB bullpen manager, coach or catcher. French (pitching coach) and Plassmeyer (assistant pitching coach) continue their duties for the second year in a row. Klimek returns for his third season as pitching strategy coach and ninth with the organization. Mansolino begins his fifth season as the club’s third base coach, while Sanders begins his sixth season as first base coach.