2024 Off-Season Thread

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I think Hague might be a good choice. He isn't a coach who was let go by his previous team. He was the assistant hitting coach with the Jays, and he moved up by joining the Pirates. He is still young , so his advice to the young Pirate hitters my well be received. I am happy that Haines is not the hitting coach. A change was necessary.

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According to Noah Hiles, Brent Strom has been hired as assistant pitching coach. He will remain in dugout during games. Another coach will be added for bullpen. This is interesting because Strom was the pitching coach for the DBacks this year. We have two main pitching coaches in the dugout during games in 2025.

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These two new coaches make the staff much better than it was when the season ended. Now it is time to begin to update the roster with some new talent.

[3pirates3]

Strom's a good coach to have around.

https://www.justbaseball.com/mlb/brent- ... mondbacks/

https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/396 ... hing-coach

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/322845 ... ext-level/

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/278544 ... -learning/

[3pirates3]

https://x.com/JonHeyman/status/1857087198991937898

[Dutton]

Ian Seymour, LHP (No. 17) TB
Joe Rock, LHP (No. 22)
Omar Cruz, LHP (No. 22) SD
Jagger Haynes, LHP (No. 20)
Jayvien Sandridge, LHP (No. 21)
Dax Fulton, LHP (No. 26) Mia
Noah Cameron, LHP (No. 12) KC
Tyson Guerrero, LHP (No. 27)
Colton Gordon, LHP (No. 11) Hou
Lael Lockhart, LHP (No. 26) Det
Doug Nikhazy, LHP (No. 24) Cle
Ryan Webb, LHP (No. 27)
Luis De Avila, LHP (No. 15) Atl

The list above was copied/pasted from a list of all top 30 prospects that need to be added to 40-man rosters or risk being lost in the Rule 5 draft. Pirate management should watch this list closely, and pick up a much-needed lefty from this list.

[3pirates3]

https://www.mlb.com/milb/news/rule-5-dr ... sters-2024