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Mariners Finalize Coaching Staff

By Anthony Franco | December 7, 2023 at 10:38pm CDT

The Mariners announced their coaching staff for the 2024 season. Most significantly, they added Brant Brown as bench coach and offensive coordinator. Seattle also hired Tommy Joseph as an assistant hitting coach and converted co-hitting coach Tony Arnerich to bullpen coach.

It was reported last month that Brown would be joining Seattle’s staff in some capacity. It wasn’t initially clear what role he would hold. Brown had worked as hitting coach for the Marlins a season ago. He left Skip Schumaker’s staff for the promotion in Seattle.

Brown had spent some time as a hitting coach with the Dodgers before joining Miami. Prior to his stint in Los Angeles, he’d been with Seattle as a minor league hitting coordinator. He returns to the Mariners, where he had worked from 2012-16, as Scott Servais’ top assistant.

With Brown stepping in as the lead hitting voice, Arnerich makes the transition to the relief corps. Seattle lost last year’s bullpen coach, Stephen Vogt, who took over as Guardians manager. It’s a bit of an odd transition for Arnerich to move from the offense to the pitching staff, but Seattle clearly wanted to keep him around in some capacity.

Jarret DeHart, who had been a co-hitting coach with Arnerich last season, remains in that role and holds the additional title of director of hitting strategy. They’re joined by Joseph, who has his first MLB coaching job.

The 32-year-old played two seasons in the big leagues, working as the Phillies primary first baseman between 2016-17. He hit .247/.297/.460 in Philadelphia. Joseph also spent a year in Korea and played parts of four Triple-A campaigns. He retired as a player after the 2020 season and immediately jumped into coaching. Joseph worked with the Mets for two years and spent ’23 as hitting coach for the Giants’ High-A affiliate.

As with DeHart, much of the 2023 staff returns. Pete Woodworth is back as pitching coach. Kristopher Negrón and Manny Acta will coach first and third base, respectively. Perry Hill is at infield coach. Trent Blank is the director of pitching strategy, while Carson Vitale is serving as field coordinator.

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Mariners Announce 2022 Coaching Staff

By Steve Adams | November 15, 2021 at 8:51pm CDT

The Mariners on Monday announced a series of departures and promotions as they set their coaching staff for the 2022 season. Manager Scott Servais was already known to be returning after agreeing to a multi-year extension on Sept. 1, but there will be some changes on his staff.

Tony Arnerich, who has spent the past two seasons as the team’s minor league field coordinator and catching coordinator, will be one of two co-hitting coaches on next year’s club. Also being promoted to the role of hitting coach and to the broader title of director of hitting strategy is Jarret DeHart, who was an assistant hitting coach in each of the past two seasons.

Seattle is also adding longtime director of player development Andy McKay to the Major League coaching staff, where he’ll be in uniform and serve as a Major League coach and senior director of baseball development. It’ll be his first year on the coaching staff but his seventh in the organization.

A more recognizable name for many fans is likely Kristopher Negron, who retired as a player just two years ago but will now be the Mariners’ first base coach. Negron worked as an assistant to McKay in 2020, his first year with the team, and won Triple-A Manager of the Year honors this past season in guiding the Mariners’ Triple-A affiliate to a league championship.

Beyond this quartet, the Mariners will also welcome back pitching coach Pete Woodworth, third base coach Manny Acta, bullpen coach Trent Blank, infield coach Perry Hill and Major League field coordinator Carson Vitale.

Notably absent from the list of returnees are now-former hitting coach Tim Laker and now-former bench coach Jared Sandberg. Laker, the Mariners announced, declined an offer to return to the team in 2022, which prompted the promotions for DeHart and Arnerich. Sandberg, meanwhile, was not asked back.

Sandberg’s departure from the coaching staff leaves the Mariners without a bench coach, but it doesn’t appear that they’ll make a hire in that regard. The Mariners announced today’s staff as their finalized staff for the 2022 season and, asked specifically by MLB.com’s Daniel Kramer about the lack of a bench coach (Twitter link), president of baseball operations confirmed that the collection of coaches announced today will “provide [Servais] with a variety of voices he trusts.”

“Our mantra here is ’Doesn’t Matter, Get Better’ and our coaches embodied that in 2021,” Servais said in a statement within today’s press release. “Each and every day they assisted in helping our players improve and that hard work showed up on the field. Between the returning staff and the coaches we’ve been able to add from our player development group, every person on this staff has had a hand in helping our players succeed in their careers, and I’m looking forward to seeing more of that success in 2022.”

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Mariners Set 2021 Coaching Staff

By Steve Adams | October 26, 2020 at 12:06pm CDT

The Mariners on Monday announced their coaching staff for the 2021 season. The unit will remain largely unchanged, although Seattle has appointed Trent Blank as the team’s permanent bullpen coach and director of pitching strategy. He’ll replace Brian DeLunas, whose departure had been previously reported. DeLunas coached remotely in 2020 due to a preexisting kidney issues that place him at high risk with regard to Covid-19. Due to that arrangement, Blank shared bullpen coach duties in 2020 on an acting/interim basis.

Blank is entering his third season with the Mariners organization, having previously been hired as the club’s coordinator of pitching strategy prior to the 2019 campaign. The former Rockies farmhand spent four years with TMI Sports Medicine between his retirement as a player in 2015 and being hired by Seattle.

Manager Scott Servais is set to return to the Mariners for what will be his sixth season, and he’ll have the rest of his 2020 staff back at his side. That includes bench coach Jared Sandberg (heading into his second season in that role), hitting coach Tim Laker (third season), pitching coach Pete Woodworth (second season), first base/infield coach Perry Hill (third season), third base coach Manny Acta (fourth season), assistant hitting coach Jarret DeHart (second season) and field coordinator Carson Vitale (second season).

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