Coaching staffs are coming together around the league. The Nationals and Marlins have made recent additions, while the Phillies are close to bringing a former manager back to the division.<\/p>\n
Phillies president of baseball operations Dave Dombrowski told reporters, including Lochlahn March of the Philadelphia Inquirer<\/a>, that the team is looking to hire Don Mattingly<\/a> as a bench coach. \u201cIt\u2019s not official, but we have really focused on speaking with Don and trying to make that happen, and we\u2019re hopeful that it will,\u201d Dombrowski said. Mattingly has been a bench coach in Toronto for the past three seasons. It was reported<\/a> shortly after the Blue Jays\u2019 World Series loss that he wouldn\u2019t be returning to the team. Mattingly previously spent seven seasons coaching in the NL East, as the Marlins manager from 2016 to 2022. Photo courtesy of John E. Sokolowski, Imagn Images<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Coaching staffs are coming together around the league. The Nationals and Marlins have made recent additions, while the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":333391,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[146720,49,48,19303,146721,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-333390","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-blake-butler","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-don-mattingly","12":"tag-sean-doolittle","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=333390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333390\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/333391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=333390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=333390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nNationals president of baseball operations Paul Toboni shared details on manager Blake Butera\u2019s coaching staff with reporters, including Mark Zuckerman of MASN Sports<\/a>. The list includes recent<\/a> additions Corey Ray<\/a> as first base coach and Grant Anders as bullpen catcher<\/a>, but one of the more notable names is the lone holdover, Sean Doolittle<\/a>. Washington is retaining the former closer as an assistant pitching coach. Doolittle came on board with the title of pitching strategist in 2024, shortly after his retirement as a player. The lefty saved 75 games for the Nats across five seasons.
\nThe Marlins are expected to hire Blake Butler as an infield coach, reports Isaac Azout of Fish On First<\/a>. He\u2019s taking over for Tyler Smarslok, who took a gig as field coordinator with the Nationals. Butler has been a minor league coach in Pittsburgh\u2019s system since 2020. He\u2019s managed Single-A Greensboro for the past two seasons.<\/p>\n