Pink Sox reportedly near hiring Andrew Bailey as pitching coach

Only a few weeks after the Pink Sox employed former aid pitcher and 2013 World Sequence champion Craig Breslow as their new head of baseball operations, Boston is reportedly including one other ex-bullpen arm to Alex Cora’s teaching employees.

According to Fox Sports’ Ken Rosenthal, the Pink Sox are near hiring Andrew Bailey because the staff’s subsequent pitching coach. Alex Speier of The Boston Globe later confirmed that Boston is nearing an settlement with the 39-year-old Bailey, who spent the final 4 years because the Giants’ pitching coach. 

Bailey, who pitched for the Pink Sox in 2012 and 2013, is anticipated to take over for Dave Bush — who was fired as Boston’s pitching coach shortly after the top of the 2023 common season.

The 2009 AL Rookie of the 12 months already has a detailed bond with Breslow, with the duo spending 5 years collectively as teammates with each the A’s and Pink Sox.

Bailey nonetheless serves on the board because the director of growth of the Strike 3 Basis, the charity Breslow created to help analysis of pediatric most cancers.

However even along with his connections to Breslow, it was removed from a assure that Boston was going to reel in Bailey — who was well-regarded in MLB circles for his teaching resume with each the Giants and Angels.

It was reported on Monday that Bailey interviewed for the Yankees’ vacant bench coach place — a coveted place greater up on the managerial meals chain. Aaron Boone’s earlier bench coach, Carlos Mendoza, was launched because the Mets’ supervisor on Monday. 

However based mostly on Rosenthal and Speier’s experiences, it looks as if Breslow and the Pink Sox obtained their man.

The Pink Sox have loads of work to do in terms of bolstering a lackluster pitching personnel that ranked twenty first in MLB final season in ERA (4.52). The case may be made that Boston must signal a minimum of one or two influence starters to carry a rotation that labored via most of 2023 on account of accidents and ineffective play.

However a coach with Bailey’s resume ought to have the ability to assist Cora and his employees proper the ship after posting a 78-84 document final season.