{"id":335667,"date":"2025-12-10T00:26:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T00:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/335667\/"},"modified":"2025-12-10T00:26:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T00:26:07","slug":"rockies-add-gabe-ribas-matt-buschmann-to-coaching-staff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/335667\/","title":{"rendered":"Rockies Add Gabe Ribas, Matt Buschmann To Coaching Staff"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Rockies finalized their previously reported<\/a> hiring of Alon Leichman as pitching coach. They\u2019ve also announced the hiring of Gabe Ribas as an assistant pitching coach and Matt Buschmann as bullpen coach.<\/p>\n

Ribas gets his first job on an MLB staff. The 45-year-old has spent the last five seasons with the Tigers as their director of pitching. Ribas had previously worked in the Dodgers farm system and at a handful of college programs. He\u2019d also had a brief professional playing career, topping out at the Double-A level in the San Diego system in 2004.<\/p>\n

Buschmann, 41, reached the highest level as a player \u2014 albeit very briefly. He made three appearances for the 2016 Diamondbacks. The remainder of his 11-year playing career came in the minors. Buschmann has some experience as a big league bullpen coach. He held that role with the Blue Jays between 2019-22. He has spent the past two seasons with the Cubs as an advisor in their player development department.<\/p>\n

Former big league catcher Dustin Garneau served as Colorado\u2019s bullpen coach in 2025. The Rox had a 5.18 earned run average out of their relievers, beating only Washington\u2019s 5.59 figure. Rox relievers were last in strikeout rate (19.7%) despite landing in the middle of the pack in whiffs. Garneau departed to become Atlanta\u2019s catching coach after the season. Buschmann will get to work with a few big arms (e.g.\u00a0Victor Vodnik<\/a>,\u00a0Seth Halvorsen<\/a>,\u00a0Juan Mejia<\/a>) at the back of the Colorado bullpen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Rockies finalized their previously reported hiring of Alon Leichman as pitching coach. They\u2019ve also announced the hiring…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":335668,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,147486,147487,462,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-335667","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-gabe-ribas","11":"tag-matt-buschmann","12":"tag-mlb","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335667","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=335667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335667\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/335668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=335667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=335667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=335667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}