For the fourth time in his profession, Drew French will succeed Chris Holt as a crew’s pitching coach.
The Orioles will rent French, the Atlanta Braves’ bullpen coach for the previous three seasons, as their pitching coach, a supply with direct information of the crew’s plans confirmed to The Baltimore Sun. Holt had been Baltimore’s pitching coach the earlier three years along with serving because the group’s director of pitching, however he’ll deal with the duties of the latter function going ahead.
As the pair of coaches climbed the Houston Astros’ minor league system, French, 39, changed Holt, 54, as an affiliate’s pitching coach three straight seasons from 2016 to 2018. Holt spent 2018 as Houston’s minor league assistant pitching coordinator earlier than becoming a member of the Orioles as their minor league pitching coordinator the subsequent yr. He was one of many group’s first hires beneath govt vp and common supervisor Mike Elias, a former govt with Houston.
French served because the pitching coach of the Astros’ Triple-A affiliate in 2019 and was set to repeat the function in 2020 earlier than the coronavirus pandemic induced the cancellation of the minor league season.
He joined Atlanta in 2021, the yr the Braves received the World Series. Across French’s tenure, the Braves ranked seventh within the majors and second within the National League in bullpen ERA.
In addition to now not having Holt be each main league pitching coach and director of pitching, the Orioles additionally parted methods with assistant pitching coach Darren Holmes, who had been with the group since 2020, earlier this offseason.
MASNSports.com first reported French’s hiring.
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Source: www.bostonherald.com