{"id":406397,"date":"2026-01-13T12:10:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T12:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/406397\/"},"modified":"2026-01-13T12:10:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T12:10:08","slug":"as-hire-barry-enright-as-pitching-coordinator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/406397\/","title":{"rendered":"A’s Hire Barry Enright As Pitching Coordinator"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Athletics are hiring Barry Enright as pitching coordinator and director of pitching in their player development department, reports Sam Blum of The Athletic<\/a>. Enright has spent the past couple seasons as pitching coach of the Angels.<\/p>\n

A former reliever who pitched parts of four seasons in the big leagues, Enright moved into coaching in 2019. He began as a minor league coach in the Arizona system before getting an MLB job as assistant pitching coach going into 2022. Enright held that role for two seasons before joining Ron Washington\u2019s staff as lead pitching coach.<\/p>\n

Enright worked in that capacity for two years. The Angels had one of the worst pitching staffs in MLB over that stretch, finishing 28th with a cumulative 4.73 earned run average. Their 20.4% strikeout rate was better only than Colorado\u2019s 17.4% mark. The pitching staff wasn\u2019t much better the season before Enright\u2019s arrival, and the team\u2019s performance over the past couple seasons is of course mostly a reflection on the roster itself.<\/p>\n

The Angels made a managerial change, tabbing former A\u2019s catcher Kurt Suzuki to lead the dugout. Suzuki overhauled the coaching staff and brought in veteran pitching coach Mike Maddux from the Rangers. Enright doesn\u2019t jump directly back onto an MLB staff but will get to work with a farm system that\u2019ll need steps forward from its talented arms in a challenging environment.<\/p>\n

The A\u2019s have an excellent offensive core but are light on established pitching. Four of their top five prospects at Baseball America<\/a> are pitchers. They\u2019ll need continued development from that group if they\u2019re to compete for a playoff spot over the next two seasons at the hitter-friendly Sutter Health Park.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Athletics are hiring Barry Enright as pitching coordinator and director of pitching in their player development department,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":406398,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[171368,49,48,462,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-406397","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-barry-enright","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-mlb","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406397","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=406397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406397\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/406398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=406397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=406397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=406397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}