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Nationals Announce 2016 Farm Managers, Coaches


Things have been slow on the minor-league front, but yesterday we got news on who the coaches will be for 2016:

SYRACUSE
Manager – Billy Gardner, Jr. (returning)
Pitching Coach – Bob Milacki (returning)
Hitting Coach – Brian Daubach (reassigned from Harrisburg)

HARRISBURG
Manager – Matthew LeCroy (reassigned from Washington)
Pitching Coach – Chris Michalak (returning)
Hitting Coach – Brian Rupp (promoted from Potomac)

POTOMAC
Manager – Tripp Keister (returning)
Pitching Coach – Franklin Bravo (returning)
Hitting Coach – Luis Ordaz (promoted from Hagerstown)

HAGERSTOWN
Manager – Patrick Anderson (returning)
Pitching Coach – Sam Narron (returning)
Hitting Coach – Amaury Garcia (promoted from Auburn)

AUBURN
Manager – Jerad Head (Coach at GCL in 2015)
Pitching Coach – Tim Redding (returning)
Hitting Coach – Mark Harris (reassigned from Harrisburg)

GCL
Manager – Josh Johnson (new hire)
Pitching coach – Michael Tejera (returning)
Hitting coach -Jorge Mejia (returning)

DSL
Manager – Sandy Martinez (returning)
Pitching Coach – Pablo Frias (returning)
Hitting Coach – Jose Herrera (returning)

This may sound odd, but I think there’s something to the lack of a massive “reorg.” The Nationals claimed they wanted continuity with their longtime coaches when they sent Matt Williams and his staff packing in October. With just one new hire to the primary trio of managers and coaches — longtime minor-leaguer Josh Johnson, who spent six of his 12 seasons with the Nationals — we’re seeing the action that backs up those words.

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  1. Thanks. This is 10x easier to decipher than the Post’s list.
    The one thing missing here is to me the most important one. The Nats still have Paul ‘Magic Man’ Menhart as the pitching co-ordinator. I think he really is the key to the pitchers development.

  2. Looks like the decision came down between
    The promise in Head as manager and
    What Barrett really wanted to do in 2016???
    No word on Chad Tracy job assignment ?

      1. Why. Perez isn’t that good. O’Day might seal closed the Chapman chatter. It will be interesting to see how Koda Glover progresses this year. Next year might be wide open for him on the big clubs roster.

  3. Jeff, i was just about to post a question about Michael Barrett – did he not do a good job as manager or did the organizaion feel he was more valuable as the ctahcing coordinator?

  4. Good to see that Rizzo and company tacitly recognized that it was the lack of talent rather than coaching skills that led to last year’s across the board underachievement. It is hard to win when there are so few good hitters in the system.

  5. Could this be a scratched out list Mike
    Maddux has in a napkin @ home today ?
    Davis
    Cole
    Grace
    Solis
    Martin
    Barrett DL
    Treinen
    Perez
    Burnett
    ODay. ????
    Paps. ????
    (Return on Storen ??). Cuse shuttle : mcGregor , Lee, Haroer benincasa

    Thoughts , gang ?

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