The Brewers announced their 2025 coaching staff on Tuesday morning. Milwaukee hired former MLB outfielder Julio Borbón as first base coach.
Borbón takes over the position from Quintin Berry, who departed to take the third base coaching job with the Cubs in October. Like Berry, the 38-year-old Borbón was best known for his speed during his playing days. He stole 47 bases over 294 games in a big league career that spanned parts of five seasons. Most of that time came with the Rangers between 2009-11. Borbón made brief appearances with the Cubs and Orioles in later years.
After retiring as a player in 2019, Borbón jumped into coaching in the Yankees’ system. He had a brief managerial run with New York’s rookie ball affiliate before moving into a player development capacity with the Twins in 2022. Borbón spent three seasons with Minnesota and now gets his first job on an MLB coaching staff.
The rest of Pat Murphy’s second staff in Milwaukee is as follows: associate manager Rickie Weeks, lead hitting coach Al LeBoeuf, hitting coaches Eric Theisen and Connor Dawson, pitching coach Chris Hook, assistant pitching/strategy coach Jim Henderson, bullpen coach Charlie Greene, third base coach Jason Lane, field coordinator Néstor Corredor, assistant coach Daniel De Mondesert, and infield coach Matt Erickson.
Adam McCalvy of MLB.com notes that the “strategy coach” element of Henderson’s title is a new development. The former closer has been on staff as an assistant pitching coach for three seasons. He’ll take on a bit more responsibility in game planning after run prevention coordinator Walker McKiven left to become Will Venable’s bench coach with the White Sox.
Brewers hire a Bourbon , double fisting . Cheers
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And we have EYJ over there. Pretty cool to see the speedsters I watched growing up take their rightful place
Now bring in T.J. Beam as pitching coach.
As a Rangers fan, that’s a name from the past. Good for him.
Was my favorite player at one point haha
Didn’t realize Borbon went to HS in the DR and played major college baseball in the US.
That’s not something you see very often.
Neat!
This is fantastic news! I lived next door to Julio back in college. His roommate J.P. Arencibia. They both borrowed my copy of the Canseco book (which had just come out at the time). Both were really talented guys and fun to hang out with.. Tennessee had a great squad back in those days before a 15 year walk through the wilderness of college baseball.
Dang. Just read Arencibia is married to Tomi Lahren!