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Major League Bullpen Catcher – Arizona Diamondbacks
Reports To: Manager, Major League Team
Duties/Responsibilities:
- Attend Major League Spring Training and designated camps/workouts in the off-season as necessary
- Spend the entirety of the 2022 season with the Major League team, assisting the Coaching Staff with catching bullpens and preparing pitchers and catchers as determined by the Coaching Staff
- Work with the Pitching Staff and Run Prevention Coordinator to help ensure that bullpen practice habits align with pitcher development plans
- Assist with different components of the advance process for upcoming opponents as needed
- Communicate effectively with the Coaching Staff and players, ensuring that messaging with the players is well aligned with the vision, goals and strategies set by the Coaching Staff
Required Qualifications:
- Ability to catch multiple bullpens daily, up to seven days a week
- Strong level of intellectual curiosity and openness
- Ability to bring a positive attitude and energy to the ballpark each day, with a mindset committed to serving the needs of the team
Preferred Qualifications:
- Moderate level of technical proficiency, particularly in Microsoft Office products
- Strong knowledge of the advance and self-scouting processes
- Ability to communicate and connect with non-English speaking staff and players
To Apply:
Interested candidates should send a resume and supporting materials to bbopsjob@dbacks.com.
This would be a good job if I could catch a baseball
Maybe they’re willing to train the right candidate.
I’m afraid of the ball. You think they’d catch on if I just cringed with every pitch, using excuses like “Oops. Something in my eye” and “Darn. My shoe’s untied”?
I’ve always said my dream job would be the bullpen catcher of the San Diego Padres. And I think i could do just about every bulletin point listed above. However, it doesnt say anything about actually being proficient at catching, especially catching some 24yr old grooving fastballs in at 98mph. I guess being proficient at catcher is assumed, which disqualifies about 99% of us reading this post, myself included
B-Bops Job @dbacks.com Very Nice.
Weren’t Hazen/Lovello around the Red Sox with HOFer BLAKE SWIHART??????????
Yup. Swihart was traded to Arizona a couple of years ago too.
I seriously doubt any of us are qualified
Yeah right. With some of the know it all types on this site, I’m sure some of these clowns think they are qualified.
INTERVIEWER: How would you assess your ability to communicate and connect with non-English speaking staff and players?
MLBTR POSTER: Equal to my ability to connect and communicate with English speaking staff and players.
INTERVIEWER: Next candidate!
Yeah they lost me at “positive attitude.”
Are you a positive person?
Absolutely, I tested positive for COVID an hour before this interview.
Rim shot!
I’m only qualified for the job if Rick Ankiel comes out of retirement to pitch, and I can be his designated bullpen catcher. Odds are he comes nowhere close to me with the pitch, so I can just sit there.
Scouting-wise, I just tell the manager he doesn’t have his best stuff.
Speak for yourself. I was a CA on my high school team.
Is a catcher’s mitt provided or do you have to bring your own?
Yes, but you need to bring your own cup
Should I pee in the cup at home or wait until I get there?
Pee while you’re walking in, duh.
l visualize something like this.
CHEECH: (sniff sniff) Hey, that’s pee, man. What are you doing with pee?
CHONG: It’s for my Arizona Diamondbacks job interview:
CHEECH: They drink pee?
Cheech and Chong pee scene.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYPrGsTOg9U
lol!
You just use the cup you just drank your beer from and pee in it and give it to them.
Employers see that as confidence.
Ask Ryan Braun.
You’re supposed to pee on the interviewer, to assert your dominance.
Weird. I just watched that video clip yesterday.
Cheech & Chong? I cracks me up every time. The entire world needs to take a pause and watch it at the same time.
Rats, I was hoping to get an old cup used by an actual MLB player.
Check eBay.
Can I just take the hits off a chest plate Happy Gilmore style?
I should work on my bi-lingual skills.
It’s kind of hilarious that it says “ability to communicate and connect with non-English speaking staff and players” instead of needing to know a specific language. Maybe I can just say I’m reeeeeeealy good at charades.
Right, someone can cite their abilities with Russian speakers for this.
They really should just say Spanish or even Japanese speaking staff and players.
Those are not the only non-English languages spoken by baseball players. Also, it’s about communicating, not speaking the languages. Lots of catchers communicate successfully with pitchers whose language they don’t speak.
No they aren’t, but how broadly are languages like Dutch spoken around baseball? I can’t think of any others besides those three and maybe Korean. Max Kepler is German but I’d guess he’s fluent in English.
I can sing “I think I’m turning Japanese.” Does that count?
I really (don’t) think so.
Cey Hey, it seems you have a case of the Vapors.
@gbs42. A favorite from my college radio daze. The Vapors actually put out a comeback record in 2021.
Yes, that’s the thing that’s going to hold me back.
I’d like to see the job description of Run Prevention Coordinator
Third base coach. 😉
Why? Makes sense that you’d need someone at that level. The pitching coach doesn’t know shifts and the fielding coaches don’t know how to pitch to maximize a shift. Put someone at a high level like a defensive coordinator in football.
why would any of the knuckleheads that browse this site be qualified to work in an MLB front office? (and yes that includes myself)
Does a bullpen catcher have to take drug tests? I occasionally like to smoke marijuana (it’s really more than occasionally), but I played baseball through high school, and I also coach little league. Plus I play The Show, so I know a lot about baseball. This seems like a good fit for me.
Idk.. but, there’s a good chance we would make for some good pals.
And your name is Hello Newman and I’m a huge Seinfeld fan. Baseball. Weed. Seinfeld. Did we just become best friends?
@Roy DeMeo
Roy – you’re fine – it’s no longer on the banned list. I wonder if some of umpires would pass.
Fascinating opportunity though – the MLB equivalent of crash test dummy. Happy to job share/platoon on this one.
@Roy DeMeo
Roy – you’re fine – it’s no longer on the banned list. I wonder if some of the umpires would pass.
Fascinating opportunity though – the MLB equivalent of crash test dummy. Happy to job share/platoon on this one.
Imagine the comments if this was a Houston Astros job opening.
“Timpani players to the front of the line.”
I’d quit my sysadmin job and take that job today if they want a really old guy with no professional baseball experience
In the “education” part of your resume put, O.G. – N.P.B.E.
Trust me. It’ll look impressive.
Lots of readers of these boards are overqualified. You don’t have to know squat.
If that’s the only requirement, I expect you’re qualified.
If someone sent you a sense of humor, would you know which end of the box to open?
Oh, the irony.
I excel at not knowing squat.
I’m pretty sure you have to know how to squat.
I catch my 9 year old son’s pitches so I should be qualified. I’ll apply.
What’s next? Pirates advertise for a pitching coach on craigslist?
Under “missed connections.”
“I saw you in the Dodgers bullpen. You were wearing blue and white. We made eye contact. I smiled and waved. You looked down at your clipboard and wrote something down. I hope it was your number. Do you believe in fate? If so, come to Pittsburgh with us.”
Haha. “I know this is a long shot, but if you’re here on Craigslist looking for the guy who leered at you under the stall in the Chavez Ravine latrine…meet me in Pittsburgh.
I’m picturing the fat guy wearing a cape in the open tryouts scene in “Invincible.”
I scrolled through this post just for the comments (Because No One would Really want to work for the DBacks!.) Duh and As If! You guys did not disappoint.. Proceed.
Trevor Bauer has got some time on his hands. Maybe he should apply?
He might have time in Chino.
That actually seems like a cool job. I used to warm up pitchers all the time when the catcher wasn’t ready. There is no way I would catch in a game, I’m not THAT crazy. When I was a kid, I would close my eyes if the batter swung. Stupid.
Hey, at this rate maybe in 6 months they’ll have job openings for players.
I used to be friends with a former Dodger bullpen catcher. He enjoyed the job but made it clear it wasn’t quite as easy as people think. Imagine catching major league guys all day long at times. Definitely a job for a fairly young guy. He was a former Dodger minor league farmhand. The Dodgers came to him, explained they liked the way he caught and his attitude but didn’t think he had what it took to play in the show. Offered him the bullpen position and he took it. I lost contact with him once he moved on to the Rockies.
It’s got to be hell on the knees and back…
Would Gary Sánchez qualify for this position?
Okay. But the Milwaukee Brewers are hiring for a position that allows you to be a racing sausage. I could catch bullpens. Or I could be a racing wiener.
Although I am a fat guy I identify as a professional athlete. I am also fluent in drunken babble, jibberish and pirate. I think I’m pretty much a shoe in so the rest of you posers need not apply
I can catch but I Don’t know about seven days a week, 95+ fastballs yikes.
I was planning to stay unemployed for awhile, but I don’t know – I might enjoy a broken hand…
Closest I can get is I was the bullpen catcher for my 25+ adult league team at age 43. Man could the college kids throw sliders.
I got an occasional AB, and manned RF too
I quit at 41, Pitching mostly in relief. I used to love warming some of the guys up but there was one 6’6″ guy who threw a nasty splitter. No thank you.
PETA prefers the title ‘Armpit Coach’
Is that you, Tolbert?
At least you could’ve said you were from the Yankees
At 45 I would be done catching after 7 minutes. 7 days I would be dead.
The first time you see the many armchair experts in here admit they really don’t know a whole lot. It’s a cool job opening and even cooler that MLBTR is sharing it.
Tools of ignorance people….Cool job rt?
I’m ignorant, but I don’t have any tools.
Well I catch a lot of s**t at work so I’m putting in for it!
* “Ability to bring a positive attitude and energy to the ballpark each day, with a mindset committed to serving the needs of the team.”
Today’s generation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uo0KjdDJr1c
The Mets should have done this for the GM position. Same exact qualifications .
For real what does this pay
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