DENVER – The Colorado Rockies today announced Major League Baseball’s training for the 2023 season, adding two adjustments starting in 2022:
In addition, Mike Redmond (bench coach), Darryl Scott (pitching coach), Ron Gideon (first base coach), Reid Cornelius (relief coach), Andy Gonzalez (assistant hitting coach) and P. J. Pilittere (assistant hitting coach) will all return to manager Bud Black for the 2023 season.
“I’m thrilled to have Hensley and Warren sign up for our coaching staff for the 2023 season,” Black said. organization and baseball. “
Meulens (MEW-lens), 55, is entering his first season with the Rockies organization after Max most recently served as assistant hitting coach for the New York Yankees (2022). Known in-game as “Bam Bam,” Meulens began his career as hitting coach for the rookie-level Bluefield Orioles (Baltimore) in 2003 and 2004. The Curacao local later coached hitting at the Triple-A level. for the Indianapolis Indians (Pittsburgh, 2005-08) and the Fresno Grizzlies (San Francisco, 2009) before scoring his first Major League coaching role, helping the San Francisco Giants win 3 World Series as coach hitting coach from 2010-17 and bench coach in 2018-19. Meulens became the coach of the New York Mets in 2020. Prior to coaching, Meulens played professionally for 17 seasons, totaling seven primary league seasons with New York-AL (1989-93), Montreal (1997), and Arizona ( 1998). ) while playing for the Chiba Lotte Marines (1994) and the Yakult Swallows (1995-96) of Nippon Professional Baseball. He represented the Netherlands at the 2000 Summer Olympics and returned to the team as a coach in 2004, later also coaching the country in the 2009 World Baseball Classic and 2013 tournament coach.
Schaeffer, 37, joins Bud Black’s education team after spending the past 10 seasons, at least as a manager, in the Rockies’ minor league system. He most recently served as the manager of Triple-A Isotope de Albuquerque (2020-22), while also serving as the team’s third base coach and boxing instructor. Schaeffer began his educational career as a hitting coach with the Single-A Asheville Tourists from 2013 to 2014 before being promoted to coach. In his first season in Asheville, he led the Tourists to the South Atlantic League Championship Series before being promoted back to the Double-A Hartford Yard Goats as manager (2018-19). The western Pennsylvania local named manager of Triple-A Albuquerque ahead of the 2020 season, which it canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. During that season, Schaeffer controlled the Rockies’ trade education site. Before entering the ranks of education, Schaeffer played six years in the minor leagues, all with the Rockies organization. Inboxer, decided on Colorado in the 38th round of the 2007 Freshman Draft and played for Rookie Level Casper (2007), Short-Season Tri-City (2007), Single-A Asheville (2008), High-A Modesto (2009) , Double-A Tulsa (2010-12) and Triple-A Colorado Springs (2010-11).