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Doug Brocail “In Line” To Become Orioles Pitching Coach

By Jeff Todd | January 15, 2019 at 3:03pm CDT

As they begin to build out a coaching staff, the Orioles appear to be nearing an agreement with Doug Brocail that would make him the team’s next pitching coach. Dan Connolly of The Athletic tweets that Brocail is “in line” to land in Baltimore.

If the sides do indeed put pen to paper, Brocail would take over for Roger McDowell, who departed along with veteran skipper Buck Showalter. The organizational change in Baltimore has been widespread, of course, with GM Mike Elias taking over baseball operations and going on to hire Brandon Hyde as the new manager.

Brocail, 51, was a first-round draft pick who pitched for 15 seasons in the majors, working to a cumulative 4.00 ERA in 880 innings. He just wrapped up a three-year run with the Rangers as their pitching coach. Previously, Brocail had a run of that same length in the same role with the Astros.

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  1. Falsehope

    6 years ago

    But he sucks

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    • bucketbrew35

      6 years ago

      I laughed way harder than I should have. You typed what I was thinking. lol.

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      • CursedRangers

        6 years ago

        I concur! Laughed hard and thought the same thing. Couldn’t get much worse.

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    • andrewf

      6 years ago

      But is he an upgrade for Baltimore?

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      • bucketbrew35

        6 years ago

        Well he’s 51 years old but he’s probably better than 90 to 95% of their pitching staff.

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        • pjmcnu

          6 years ago

          Haha, nice.

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      • Pops

        6 years ago

        Yes.

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    • terrymesmer

      6 years ago

      Saturday night, I played the board game MLB Showdown 2000 with my godson. My starter, Greg Maddux, gave up nine runs in 5.1 IP. I was losing 12-9 heading into the bottom of the 9th. Brocail was the last pitcher my godson had — so in he went. Brocail faced five batters: the first four scored, with the game ending on a walkoff double from Manny Ramirez.

      So, even on paper, Brocail still sucks.

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      • nwwh

        6 years ago

        That’s awesome. I wish I could play Strat-O-Matic with my dad one last time.

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    • mehs

      6 years ago

      Many coaches are unsuccessful players. For example here are the other current AL East Pitching Coaches playing careers summarized:

      Red Sox:

      Minor league catcher Dana LeVangie with career minor league .196 average. So had plenty of practice getting himself out.

      baseball-reference.com/register/player.fcgi?id=lev…

      Yankees:

      Larry Rothschild career ERA 5.40 though he only lasted 8.1 innings over 2 seasons.

      baseball-reference.com/players/r/rothsla01.shtml

      Rays:

      James Hickey career 3.54 in the minors but 7.71 at AAA. Never made it to the majors.

      baseball-reference.com/register/player.fcgi?id=hic…

      Blue Jays:

      Pete Walker as the most accomplished of the group had a career 4.48 ERA over 29 games over parts of 7 seasons.

      baseball-reference.com/players/w/walkepe01-bat.sht…

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    • dimitrios in la

      6 years ago

      @False: how do you determine whether a pitching coach sucks?

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    • mt in baltimore

      6 years ago

      Nice A-hole comment there pal..

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      • GareBear

        6 years ago

        He isn’t completely wrong though. Texas pitching has struggled or regressed for the most part under his watch. He had a few nice projects in Houston but his overall track record doesn’t leave much optimism

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        • dimitrios in la

          6 years ago

          Yeah but whether Texas pitching regressed doesn’t tell me much about him as a coach. Several factors, other than simply the coach, could have contributed to the regression.

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        • Jbigz12

          6 years ago

          Uh yeah. Several factors for sure. But that could certainly involve be the coach. You can’t put it all on him but when your staff regresses 3 straight years how does that reflect? The rangers team ERA jumped every year and he’s going to be getting a similar crop of guys in Baltimore. He lost Darvish and eventually Hamels and had to run out some crappy starters this past season so perhaps you don’t look at that too hard. But he certainly didn’t find any diamonds in the rough in the rotation. Guys like Moore and Hamels regressed pretty significantly under his tutelage. Age and the ballpark certainly played a role too but we’ve already seen Hamels be successful in CHC. I’ll keep an open mind as McDowell was a useless pitching coach himself.

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  2. PhilliesFan012

    6 years ago

    “Baltimore can’t get any wor…..nvm.”

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  3. Jonny5

    6 years ago

    Marlins: No way anyone finishes with fewer wins than us this year!

    Orioles: Hold my beer….

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    • keepinthafaithsd1

      6 years ago

      Comment of the year so far hahahah

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    • Stevesabers

      6 years ago

      Well three teams did this past year dipshit.

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  4. Modified_6

    6 years ago

    Not having a pitching coach puts teams in a better situation than having Brocail as a pitching coach.

    — A lifelong Rangers fan.

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    • pjmcnu

      6 years ago

      Maybe he was an Astros plant and was actively working against your pitchers!

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  5. bobtillman

    6 years ago

    The O’s do these things in such a weird manner….Hyde gets hired, but nobody admits it….Brocalli is “in line” for pitching coach……just weird……

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    • Upthemiddle

      6 years ago

      Not so sure if it’s weird, or just a product of a site called mldtradeRUMORS…

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  6. rathman53

    6 years ago

    No link to lifetime stats?

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  7. ScottRC

    6 years ago

    What’s a “drat” pick? Is it because the Padres said “DRAT!!” after realizing they wasted the 12th overall pick on him?

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  8. Jbigz12

    6 years ago

    Hopefully he gets something out of our bucket of mid-back end starters. I hope he fixes Bundy and Hunter Harvey can finally be healthy. Kremer intrigues me as well. All in all I can’t imagine this coaching staff making it to the other side of this rebuild so who knows how many guys even wanted the job. In our park and state of the team I couldn’t blame them.

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    • dimitrios in la

      6 years ago

      Oh there’s some nice pitching talent in the organization in the minors. I also think Cobb and Bundy have a lot of upside left and I look forward to seeing what the new staff, plus analytics, can do for them.

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      • Jbigz12

        6 years ago

        We’re starting from scratch and if everything goes to plan Cobb and Bundy will be out of here via trade soon. There’s options in the upper minors but they aren’t frontline guys. We have to wait til DL hall or Grayson Rodriguez before we see that.

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        • dimitrios in la

          6 years ago

          There’s guys lower too. As for Bundy and Cobb, they get traded if they boost their results, which I think they will.

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  9. Ironman_4life

    6 years ago

    May as well hire Ubaldo. Who hired this guy?

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  10. Fire Jon Daniels

    6 years ago

    Doug Brocail was the worst hire of the Jon Daniels era. He’s philosophy is to pitch up and in on hitters, and JD loves sinker/changeup groundball pitchers, so it was a great fit

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  11. peteb

    6 years ago

    Brocail broke Miguel Tejada’s wrist when Tejada was on the Os. From the Sun: “June 22, 2007– Two days after getting hit by a pitch by San Diego Padres reliever Doug Brocail, Tejada heads to the disabled list with a fractured bone on his left wrist.”

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    • dimitrios in la

      6 years ago

      Nice little anecdote. Thanks.

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      • peteb

        6 years ago

        Sure. I might add that, at the time, the O’s were trying to deal Tejada ahead of the trade deadline. And that plan was sunk by the injury

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        • Jbigz12

          6 years ago

          Well we wound up with fatt Albers and my boy Luke Scott. At least Scott gave birds fans some memorable blasts.

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        • dimitrios in la

          6 years ago

          Scott also had some memorable quotes via politics as I recall.

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        • dimitrios in la

          6 years ago

          peteb, yes, now I remember that.

          Reply
  12. em650r

    6 years ago

    Anyone hear about John Wettland
    Crazy stuff going on

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    • Ironman_4life

      6 years ago

      Chad Curtis and him have a thing for young ens.

      Reply
  13. gorav114

    6 years ago

    Sick

    Reply
  14. jlahman

    6 years ago

    Where’s Ray Miller when you need him?

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