The D-Backs announced their 2025 coaching staff this evening. The previously unreported additions are the hirings of Travis Denker as assistant hitting coach and Owen Dew as assistant pitching coach. Former assistant hitting coach Rick Short is moving to minor league field coordinator, the team announced. Arizona dismissed prior assistant pitching coach Dan Carlson at the end of the season.
It’s the first MLB coaching jobs for both Denker and Dew. The former reached the majors as a player, suiting up in 24 games for the Giants in 2008. Denker spent 12 seasons in the minor leagues. He finished his playing career in the Arizona system in 2017 before moving into coaching. He has spent the past six years coaching in the minors, including two years as a hitting coach with Triple-A Reno.
Dew, 36, is a former Cleveland draftee who pitched in their system for four years. He moved into coaching with Cleveland in 2017. Dew worked his way from short season ball up the minor league ladder, getting to their top affiliate in Columbus in 2023. He spent two years with the Guardians’ Triple-A team before getting the bump to Arizona’s big league staff.
This will be Torey Lovullo’s ninth season at the helm in Phoenix. In addition to Denker and Dew, new hirings include pitching coach Brian Kaplan, bullpen coach Wellington Cepeda, and third base coach Shaun Larkin. Bench coach Jeff Banister, hitting coach Joe Mather, assistant hitting coach Damion Easley, and first base coach Dave McKay are returnees.
What can you dew?
Anyone else not getting alerts from Mlbtr today?
Rockies could have hired Owen: Mountain Dew
Padres could have traded with Houston for Kyle: Friar Tuck
Owen loves his mama!!!
that’s cute…
how about making some moves though. awesome quiet for a team that plans to be all in on this season
We got Jeff Brigham, WATCH OUT LA!
awful quiet* I meant to say
Need someone on the staff to teach the football slider
I just watched the video of Brent Strom and Roger Beshens Football Slider in the bullpen Feb 29 2024 at Salt River Fields and then after looking at the Pictures of Roger showing off his Football Slider to Brent in the Dbacks Clubhouse on May 23, 2024, that they should have hired Roger in some capacity to individually teach the Football Slider. I believe if they had by spring training dozens of average MILB pitchers would be ready for MLB.
The video is on Roger Beshens Twitter. After the bullpen session Feb 29, 2024, Strom gave Beshens his email and they communicated all 2024 season long.
Arizona considering trading Marte?
No
Dbacks are showing their ineptness by not hiring Roger Beshens in some capacity.
Strom was reported morphing cutters to be more like Football Sliders. Think about it, the best Dbacks pitchers didn’t even throw a cutter and we watched R Nelson, Walston K Nelson, Jarvis throw the cutter. Also notice they were ALL hurt at one time.
When Strom said to Roger Beshens on video Feb 29, 2024 after being in the World Series that half the pitchers don’t listen to him and that they were 29th in slider usage, That means Strom didn’t know the RB Football Slider in Houston cause he would have implemented it DAY ONE in AZ in 2022!