Dustin Garneau has a brand new job with the Rockies. After spending the previous two seasons because the group’s catching and recreation planning coordinator, he’ll tackle the position of bullpen coach in 2025. The crew introduced the information on Thursday.
The Rockies chosen Garneau with the 571st total choose within the 2009 draft. After 5 years within the membership’s minor league system, he made his MLB debut at Coors Area in 2015. Over the subsequent eight seasons, Garneau caught for the Rockies, Athletics, White Sox, Angels, Astros, and Tigers, enjoying a complete of 168 large league video games. He introduced his determination to retire following the 2022 season.
Throughout his enjoying profession, Garneau appeared in much more video games for the Rockies than every other crew: 68 contests over components of three seasons from 2015-17. He even returned to Colorado on a minor league deal in his penultimate season, though he was traded lower than a month later and didn’t play one other recreation with the large league membership. After he hung up his catching gear, it wasn’t lengthy earlier than he returned to the Rockies. Certainly, the group was so happy to carry him again that they created the place of catching and recreation planning coordinator (particularly the “recreation planning” half) only for him (per Jack Etkin of the Rockies Weblog).
Whereas Garneau was not a pitcher himself, the Rockies should imagine his expertise dealing with pitchers and calling video games will assist him succeed as a bullpen coach. He’ll substitute veteran bullpen coach Reid Cornelius, who was relieved of his duties on the finish of the season. The crew additionally parted methods with assistant hitting coach P.J. Pilittere earlier this month, although it’s unclear in the event that they plan to interchange him. With hitting coach Hensley Meulens and assistant hitting coach Andy González nonetheless within the group, the Rockies don’t essentially want so as to add one other assistant hitting coach to the employees.
