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Orioles Name Chris Holt Pitching Coach

By Steve Adams | November 2, 2020 at 2:55pm CDT

2:55pm: Holmes has actually been promoted to assistant pitching coach, tweets Kubatko.

2:20pm: The Orioles are promoting Chris Holt to their vacant pitching coach position, general manager Mike Elias announced to reporters this afternoon (Twitter link via Roch Kubatko of MASNsports.com). He’ll take over for former big league righty Doug Brocail, who had held the post for the past two seasons but wasn’t retained for a third year on the job.

Holt initially came to the Baltimore organization from the Astros. He’d previously served as the Houston’s assistant director of pitching, where he worked with Elias when Elias as an assistant general manager. Holt’s first title with the O’s was minor league pitching coordinator, but he was promoted to director of pitching last offseason — a role in which he had a more direct connection with Brocail and the staff. Holt will retain that director of pitching title but will now see his duties expand into the big league dugout.

Holt has previously worked to develop individualized pitching plans for the Orioles’ pitchers at both the minor league and big league levels. MLB.com’s Joe Trezza wrote recently that Holt was the internal favorite to take over the pitching coach role and has drawn praise for his “fluency” in analytic principles and his ability to communicate that information to players who aren’t as familiar with the data. He worked closely with many of the club’s young arms at the alternate training site in 2020, Trezza notes, including Keegan Akin and Dean Kremer.

Elias added that bullpen coach Darren Holmes will return for a second season as the club’s bullpen coach and work with Holt to oversee the staff as a whole. The Orioles hired Holmes last December after a five-year stint as the Rockies’ bullpen coach.

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  1. baseballpun

    5 years ago

    CHRIS HOLT!

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    • User 3218710645

      5 years ago

      What else don’t we know about Chris Holt?

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  2. Jim Carter

    5 years ago

    Two job titles, one salary.

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    • dimitriinla

      5 years ago

      He’ll have a lot on his hands, lots of responsibility. Let’s see how he handles it. As for the promotion it was well deserved. The organizational pitching has developed very nicely under his guidance.

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  3. gugui

    5 years ago

    To much for one men
    That mean he will be in charge of more than 60 pitchers uhhh

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    • dimitriinla

      5 years ago

      That is my concern as well. That will be something worth watching in the season ahead.

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  4. Tom1968

    5 years ago

    I know holmes is a steroid guy but was it him or jason grimsley that was selling it too? 1, if it was holmes then why would mlb let him coach and 2nd if its wasn’t him i apologize,the yankees had so many roid guys,i cant tell the difference

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