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Brewers Retain Pitching Coach Chris Hook On Multi-Year Extension

By Anthony Franco | October 29, 2024 at 9:03pm CDT

The Brewers are retaining pitching coach Chris Hook on a multi-year extension, the team announced this afternoon. He would otherwise have been out of contract on Thursday.

That’ll keep Hook around for a seventh season and beyond. The 56-year-old has been a member of the Milwaukee organization for nearly two decades. He worked through the minor league ranks to pitching coordinator before getting the nod on Craig Counsell’s staff during the 2018-19 offseason. Pat Murphy kept Hook in that role when he took the reins last offseason.

It’s easy to see why the Brewers are retaining him. Milwaukee’s success has generally been built around strong run prevention groups. Over the last six seasons, the Brewers are fifth in earned run average and trail only the Astros in strikeout rate. As is the case with any coach, it’s impossible to know from the outside how much of the credit Hook deserves for those results. Still, the Brewers have had one of the best pitching staffs in MLB for an extended stretch despite rarely making significant free agent moves.

That continued this past season under difficult circumstances. The Brewers traded Corbin Burnes and operated without Brandon Woodruff for the entire year. It was a patchwork rotation beyond Freddy Peralta, especially once Wade Miley and Jakob Junis went down with early injuries, but the Brewers managed a 3.65 ERA that ranked fifth in MLB. Journeyman righty Colin Rea had a career year, while 26-year-old Tobias Myers turned in 138 innings of 3.00 ERA ball after struggling in the upper minors. Milwaukee got serviceable results out of deadline acquisitions Aaron Civale and Frankie Montas (coinciding with a slight velocity bump in Montas’ case).

Milwaukee has made a couple changes to Murphy’s staff on the heels of another NL Central title. The Brewers announced last week that they were parting ways with co-hitting coach Ozzie Timmons and adding Al LeBoeuf and Eric Thiesen to the staff as hitting coaches.

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  1. MLB Top 100 Commenter

    10 months ago

    Changes the meaning of the manager comes out to give the pitcher the Hook.

    Yankees showing life in game four, Dodgers resting their best pitchers.

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    • Acoss1331

      10 months ago

      Brewers are Hooked on a good pitching coach.

      Dodgers need to take care of business tomorrow. They need to go for the jugular tomorrow.

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      • Bart Harley Jarvis

        10 months ago

        I’d like to see the Yankees win tomorrow evening, and then the Dodgers win Game 6 in front of the home fans. More World Series is never a bad thing.

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        • MLB Top 100 Commenter

          10 months ago

          At the start of the World Series, I predicted the Dodgers would win in 6. If Cole gets it that far, Yamamoto will be ready.

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    • LordD99

      10 months ago

      Series is closer than the 3-1 record indicates. By Boone’s admission, he screwed up the bullpen in game 1. The series should be tied 2-2.

      Beyond that, even as a Yankee fan, I predicted Dodgers in six. They’re the stronger team. Let’s see if they get it back to LA.

      Freeman is a beast. Always been a fan. Should still be a Brave. I really wish right now he was still a Brave!

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  2. Monkey’s Uncle

    10 months ago

    I can’t get enough news about the Brewers pitching coach; you could say that I’m Hooked.

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  3. sad tormented neglected mariners fan

    10 months ago

    Hook last name for a pitching coach is great

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    • cwizzy6

      10 months ago

      The pitching coach is never the one that gives the hook though, but I get the sentiment.

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  4. Dumpster Divin Theo

    10 months ago

    With a multi year extension, Brewhahas are on the hook for his contract

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  5. bravesfan

    10 months ago

    I came to the comments for the puns and wasn’t disappointed. But I’ll be the serious guy in the chat, he’s doing something right… keeping him around is a smart move.

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  6. Doug S

    10 months ago

    Enough of the puns

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