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Arizona Diamondbacks Job Opening

By Anthony Franco | January 5, 2022 at 3:26pm CDT

From time to time, as a service to our readers, MLB Trade Rumors will post job opportunities of possible interest that are brought to our attention. MLBTR has no affiliation with the hiring entity, no role in the hiring process, and no financial interest in the posting of this opportunity.

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.

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Comments

  1. Eovaldismemes

    1 year ago

    This would be a good job if I could catch a baseball

    Reply
    • CalcetinesBlancos

      1 year ago

      Maybe they’re willing to train the right candidate.

      Reply
    • miltpappas

      1 year ago

      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”?

      Reply
    • bucsfan0004

      1 year ago

      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

      Reply
  2. bob9988 2

    1 year ago

    B-Bops Job @dbacks.com Very Nice.

    Reply
  3. bobtillman

    1 year ago

    Weren’t Hazen/Lovello around the Red Sox with HOFer BLAKE SWIHART??????????

    Reply
    • sidewinder11

      1 year ago

      Yup. Swihart was traded to Arizona a couple of years ago too.

      Reply
  4. Angels86ed

    1 year ago

    I seriously doubt any of us are qualified

    Reply
    • Roy DeMeo

      1 year ago

      Yeah right. With some of the know it all types on this site, I’m sure some of these clowns think they are qualified.

      Reply
      • Cey Hey

        1 year ago

        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!

        Reply
    • CalcetinesBlancos

      1 year ago

      Yeah they lost me at “positive attitude.”

      Reply
      • Cey Hey

        1 year ago

        Are you a positive person?

        Absolutely, I tested positive for COVID an hour before this interview.

        Reply
        • rememberthecoop

          1 year ago

          Rim shot!

    • Appalachian_Outlaw

      1 year ago

      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.

      Reply
    • pt57

      1 year ago

      Speak for yourself. I was a CA on my high school team.

      Reply
  5. Cey Hey

    1 year ago

    Is a catcher’s mitt provided or do you have to bring your own?

    Reply
    • Chipper Jones' illegitimate kid

      1 year ago

      Yes, but you need to bring your own cup

      Reply
      • Cey Hey

        1 year ago

        Should I pee in the cup at home or wait until I get there?

        Reply
        • vtncsc

          1 year ago

          Pee while you’re walking in, duh.

        • Cey Hey

          1 year ago

          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

        • Dunk Dunkington

          1 year ago

          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.

        • Bauer? But I Hardly Know Her!

          1 year ago

          Ask Ryan Braun.

        • ukpadre

          1 year ago

          You’re supposed to pee on the interviewer, to assert your dominance.

        • sufferfortribe 2

          1 year ago

          Weird. I just watched that video clip yesterday.

        • Cey Hey

          1 year ago

          Cheech & Chong? I cracks me up every time. The entire world needs to take a pause and watch it at the same time.

      • pt57

        1 year ago

        Rats, I was hoping to get an old cup used by an actual MLB player.

        Reply
        • Cey Hey

          1 year ago

          Check eBay.

  6. rpoabr

    1 year ago

    Can I just take the hits off a chest plate Happy Gilmore style?

    Reply
  7. Josh5890

    1 year ago

    I should work on my bi-lingual skills.

    Reply
    • CalcetinesBlancos

      1 year ago

      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.

      Reply
      • richt

        1 year ago

        Right, someone can cite their abilities with Russian speakers for this.

        They really should just say Spanish or even Japanese speaking staff and players.

        Reply
        • Cey Hey

          1 year ago

          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.

        • richt

          1 year ago

          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.

      • pt57

        1 year ago

        I can sing “I think I’m turning Japanese.” Does that count?

        Reply
        • Cey Hey

          1 year ago

          I really (don’t) think so.

        • gbs42

          1 year ago

          Cey Hey, it seems you have a case of the Vapors.

        • Cey Hey

          1 year ago

          @gbs42. A favorite from my college radio daze. The Vapors actually put out a comeback record in 2021.

    • pt57

      1 year ago

      Yes, that’s the thing that’s going to hold me back.

      Reply
  8. tomjef

    1 year ago

    I’d like to see the job description of Run Prevention Coordinator

    Reply
    • whyhayzee

      1 year ago

      Third base coach. 😉

      Reply
    • Ted

      1 year ago

      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.

      Reply
  9. Blah blah blah

    1 year ago

    why would any of the knuckleheads that browse this site be qualified to work in an MLB front office? (and yes that includes myself)

    Reply
  10. Roy DeMeo

    1 year ago

    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.

    Reply
    • Hello, Newman

      1 year ago

      Idk.. but, there’s a good chance we would make for some good pals.

      Reply
      • Roy DeMeo

        1 year ago

        And your name is Hello Newman and I’m a huge Seinfeld fan. Baseball. Weed. Seinfeld. Did we just become best friends?

        Reply
    • A'sfaninLondonUK

      1 year ago

      @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.

      Reply
    • A'sfaninLondonUK

      1 year ago

      @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.

      Reply
  11. Cey Hey

    1 year ago

    Imagine the comments if this was a Houston Astros job opening.

    Reply
    • CalcetinesBlancos

      1 year ago

      “Timpani players to the front of the line.”

      Reply
  12. drewm

    1 year ago

    I’d quit my sysadmin job and take that job today if they want a really old guy with no professional baseball experience

    Reply
    • Cey Hey

      1 year ago

      In the “education” part of your resume put, O.G. – N.P.B.E.

      Trust me. It’ll look impressive.

      Reply
  13. BlueSkies_LA

    1 year ago

    Lots of readers of these boards are overqualified. You don’t have to know squat.

    Reply
    • Mr. Person

      1 year ago

      If that’s the only requirement, I expect you’re qualified.

      Reply
      • BlueSkies_LA

        1 year ago

        If someone sent you a sense of humor, would you know which end of the box to open?

        Reply
        • Mr. Person

          1 year ago

          Oh, the irony.

      • Ducky Buckin Fent

        1 year ago

        I excel at not knowing squat.

        Reply
    • pt57

      1 year ago

      I’m pretty sure you have to know how to squat.

      Reply
  14. Old York

    1 year ago

    I catch my 9 year old son’s pitches so I should be qualified. I’ll apply.

    Reply
  15. miltpappas

    1 year ago

    What’s next? Pirates advertise for a pitching coach on craigslist?

    Reply
    • Cey Hey

      1 year ago

      Under “missed connections.”

      Reply
      • positively_broad_st

        1 year ago

        “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.”

        Reply
        • Cey Hey

          1 year ago

          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.

  16. Mr. Person

    1 year ago

    I’m picturing the fat guy wearing a cape in the open tryouts scene in “Invincible.”

    Reply
  17. wifflemeister

    1 year ago

    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.

    Reply
  18. Rick Pernell

    1 year ago

    Trevor Bauer has got some time on his hands. Maybe he should apply?

    Reply
    • Mr. Person

      1 year ago

      He might have time in Chino.

      Reply
  19. whyhayzee

    1 year ago

    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.

    Reply
  20. getrealgone2

    1 year ago

    Hey, at this rate maybe in 6 months they’ll have job openings for players.

    Reply
  21. leftcoaster

    1 year ago

    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.

    Reply
    • positively_broad_st

      1 year ago

      It’s got to be hell on the knees and back…

      Reply
  22. Old York

    1 year ago

    Would Gary Sánchez qualify for this position?

    Reply
  23. brewsingblue82

    1 year ago

    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.

    Reply
  24. riffraff

    1 year ago

    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

    Reply
  25. ac000000

    1 year ago

    I can catch but I Don’t know about seven days a week, 95+ fastballs yikes.

    Reply
  26. positively_broad_st

    1 year ago

    I was planning to stay unemployed for awhile, but I don’t know – I might enjoy a broken hand…

    Reply
  27. Fly over fan

    1 year ago

    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

    Reply
    • whyhayzee

      1 year ago

      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.

      Reply
  28. positively_broad_st

    1 year ago

    PETA prefers the title ‘Armpit Coach’

    Reply
  29. Holyshirts

    1 year ago

    Is that you, Tolbert?

    Reply
    • Rsox

      1 year ago

      At least you could’ve said you were from the Yankees

      Reply
  30. Bearded Texas Hulk

    1 year ago

    At 45 I would be done catching after 7 minutes. 7 days I would be dead.

    Reply
  31. AgentF

    1 year ago

    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.

    Reply
  32. lumber and lighting

    1 year ago

    Tools of ignorance people….Cool job rt?

    Reply
    • pt57

      1 year ago

      I’m ignorant, but I don’t have any tools.

      Reply
  33. rond-2

    1 year ago

    Well I catch a lot of s**t at work so I’m putting in for it!

    Reply
  34. Dunedin020306

    1 year ago

    * “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

    Reply
  35. anotherdamncardinalfan

    1 year ago

    The Mets should have done this for the GM position. Same exact qualifications .

    Reply
  36. phillyballers

    1 year ago

    For real what does this pay

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