{"id":336665,"date":"2025-12-09T07:26:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T07:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/336665\/"},"modified":"2025-12-09T07:26:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T07:26:09","slug":"angels-hire-darryl-scott-dom-chiti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/336665\/","title":{"rendered":"Angels Hire Darryl Scott, Dom Chiti"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Angels have established their 2026 coaching staff. General manager Perry Minasian informed reporters (including Rhett Bollinger of MLB.com<\/a>) that they\u2019ve added Darryl Scott (assistant pitching coach), Dom Chiti (bullpen coach), and Derek Florko (assistant hitting coach) to the group. They\u2019re the final hires for Kurt Suzuki\u2019s first season at the helm.<\/p>\n

Scott heads to Orange County after four seasons as the lead pitching coach with the Rockies. He\u2019d previously spent two years as Colorado\u2019s bullpen coach and had been in the organization dating back to 2009. The 57-year-old\u2019s time in professional baseball began with the Angels. He signed as an undrafted free agent with the franchise in 1990 and made 16 relief appearances for the \u201993 team. That wound up being his only MLB action amidst a decade-long minor league career.<\/p>\n

The Rockies had by far the worst pitching staff in MLB in 2025. Their 5.99 earned run average was more than half a run higher than that of the 29th-place Nationals. They were last with a 17.2% strikeout rate and a 9.8% swinging strike percentage. Their 5.44 ERA in road games was also worst in MLB, so the issues went well beyond the challenge of pitching at Coors Field.<\/p>\n

All coaches are at the mercy of their personnel to a large extent, of course, and Scott didn\u2019t have an especially talented group of pitchers with which to work. It nevertheless didn\u2019t come as a huge surprise that the Rockies shook things up at the end of the season. They\u2019re reportedly hiring<\/a> Alon Leichman away from the Marlins to take over as pitching coach. Scott brings decades of experience to the Halos.<\/p>\n

Chiti, 66, is an internal hire. He\u2019d been working as the organization\u2019s minor league pitching coordinator. Chiti has plenty of experience on MLB coaching staffs, including a previous two-year run as Halos bullpen coach. He has held the same position with the Rangers, Orioles, and Mets at times over the past two decades. Chiti replaces Steve Karsay, who\u2019d held the job for the past two years on Ron Washington\u2019s staff.<\/p>\n

Angels relievers ranked ahead of only the Rockies and Nats with a 4.86 ERA this past season. That\u2019s despite strong work from Kenley Jansen<\/a> and\u00a0Reid Detmers<\/a>, neither of whom are in that mix right now. Jansen is a free agent, while Detmers is ticketed for a return to the rotation. A healthy season from Robert Stephenson<\/a> would be a boost, but the Angels should acquire multiple relievers. Pursuing a reunion with Jansen would make sense.<\/p>\n

Florko receives his first promotion onto an MLB staff. He has worked as a hitting instructor in the farm system since 2019. Florko has spent the past four years working with low minors hitters at the team\u2019s Arizona complex. He\u2019ll work alongside first-time hitting coach Brady Anderson (a three-time All-Star as a player) and a very experienced assistant hitting coach in John Mabry.<\/p>\n

The rest of Suzuki\u2019s staff is as follows: pitching coach Mike Maddux, bench coach John Gibbons, first base\/outfield coach Adam Eaton, third base coach Keith Johnson, infield coach Andy Schatzley, and catching coach Max Stassi. Minasian also announced that former interim manager Ray Montgomery is returning to the organization in a front office role. Montgomery led the club for the final few months of the \u201925 season after Washington stepped aside for health reasons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Angels have established their 2026 coaching staff. General manager Perry Minasian informed reporters (including Rhett Bollinger of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":336666,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,140481,187524,187525,591,78725,85,187526],"class_list":{"0":"post-336665","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-darryl-scott","11":"tag-derek-florko","12":"tag-dom-chiti","13":"tag-mlb","14":"tag-ray-montgomery","15":"tag-sports","16":"tag-steve-karsay"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=336665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336665\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/336666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=336665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=336665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=336665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}