{"id":393789,"date":"2026-01-05T19:51:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T19:51:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/393789\/"},"modified":"2026-01-05T19:51:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T19:51:10","slug":"brewers-add-daniel-vogelbach-to-coaching-staff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/393789\/","title":{"rendered":"Brewers Add Daniel Vogelbach To Coaching Staff"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Brewers announced their coaching staff for the upcoming 2026 season, and includes a familiar name. Former major league first baseman Daniel Vogelbach<\/a>, who played with the Brewers from 2020-21, has been hired as a hitting coach. That\u2019s part of a broader shakeup of the hitting coach staff. Lead hitting coach Al LeBoeuf, who was away from the team for part of the 2025 season after a prostate cancer diagnosis, is not returning to the major league staff but is staying in the organization. Assistant hitting coach Eric Theisen has been elevated to the lead hitting coach role. Vogelbach and former Blue Jays hitting coach Guillermo Martinez (another new hire to the staff) will be Theisen\u2019s assistants.<\/p>\n

Further changes in the staff are afoot. Third base coach Jason Lane<\/a> has been promoted to the title of \u201coffense and strategy coordinator.\u201d Infield coach Matt Erickson will now also be the club\u2019s third base coach. Assistant pitching coach Jim Henderson<\/a> is being promoted to the title of \u201cpitching coordinator.\u201d In his old assistant pitching coach role, the Brewers will elevate Juan Sandoval, who\u2019d previously been a minor league pitching coach and coordinator.<\/p>\n

Spencer Allen, who\u2019d been Milwaukee\u2019s director of player development, joins the major league staff as a first base coach, replacing Julio Borbon<\/a>. Allen was the head coach at Northwestern prior to joining the Brewers organization prior to the 2022 season. Adam McCalvy of MLB.com reports<\/a> that both Borbon and LeBoeuf are remaining in the Brewers\u2019 organization in roles that have yet to be specified.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a major shakeup of the coaching staff, though much of the turnover is due to internal promotions. Vogelbach is the most recognizable newcomer. He played in parts of nine major league seasons from 2016-24, hitting a combined .219\/.340\/.405 with 81 home runs in just under 2000 plate appearances. Vogelbach rarely hit for average but always possessed superlative pitch recognition (career 15.1% walk rate) and considerable raw power. This marks his first coaching assignment since concluding his playing career last offseason, when he joined the Pirates as a special assistant<\/a> in their baseball operations department.<\/p>\n

Martinez, 41, was the Blue Jays\u2019 hitting coach from 2019-24. He\u2019s spent several seasons as a minor league hitting coach and hitting coordinator with both the Jays and the Cubs. After departing Toronto\u2019s major league staff following the 2024 season, he returned for a second stint in the Cubs\u2019 ranks, serving as a hitting coach with their Double-A club. He\u2019s now back in the majors with just the third organization as he heads into his 15th season of professional coaching.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Brewers announced their coaching staff for the upcoming 2026 season, and includes a familiar name. Former major…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":393790,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[210555,64,63,210556,210557,210558,210559,210560,210561,210562,591,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-393789","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-al-leboeuf","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-daniel-vogelbach","12":"tag-eric-theisen","13":"tag-guillermo-martinez","14":"tag-jason-lane","15":"tag-jim-henderson","16":"tag-julio-borbon","17":"tag-matt-erickson","18":"tag-mlb","19":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393789","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=393789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393789\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/393790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}