Eric Duncan (Major League field coordinator), Drew Butera (Major League coach) and Cody Atkinson (assistant hitting coach) have been added to manager John Schneider’s staff, the team announced Wednesday.<\/p>\n
Duncan has been a part of the Blue Jays organization since Nov. 2022, when he was appointed the minor league field coordinator, before taking over as director of position player development at the end of the 2024 season.<\/p>\n
Prior to Toronto, the 41-year-old held various hitting roles inside the Miami Marlins system from 2018-2022. The former 27th-overall pick by the New York Yankees played 10 years in the minor leagues with the Yankees (2003-2009), Atlanta Braves (2010), St. Louis Cardinals (2011), and Kansas City Royals (2012).<\/p>\n
Butera spent the last two seasons as a catching instructor with the Chicago White Sox and had been a previous interest to Toronto, Sportsnet’s Shi Davidi reported Tuesday.<\/p>\n
The 12-year MLB veteran spent time with Minnesota, Kansas City, Colorado and both Los Angeles-based clubs. He played in 553 career games, hitting 19 home runs with a .542 OPS.<\/p>\n
Atkinson, 36, spent the previous six seasons with the Texas Rangers, overseeing their minor league hitting program. He joined the Rangers after spending one season with the Cincinnati Reds organization and coaching with various college programs.<\/p>\n
Here is a full list of the 2026 staff:<\/p>\n
John Schneider, Manager
DeMarlo Hale, Associate Manager
Pete Walker, Pitching Coach
David Popkins, Hitting Coach
Mark Budzinski, First Base Coach
Carlos Febles, Third Base Coach
Graham Johnson, Bullpen Coach
Sam Greene, Assistant Pitching Coach
Lou Iannotti, Assistant Hitting Coach
Cody Atkinson, Assistant Hitting Coach
Eric Duncan, Major League Field Coordinator
Drew Butera, Major League Coach
John Lannan, Major League Mental Performance Coach<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Eric Duncan (Major League field coordinator), Drew Butera (Major League coach) and Cody Atkinson (assistant hitting coach) have…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":337849,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-337848","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-mlb","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337848","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=337848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337848\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/337849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=337848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=337848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=337848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}