MLB news roundup
Welcome to Tuesday guys!
Yesterday evening we got word that the Athletics have named former big league pitcher Barry Enright as the organization’s new pitching coordinator:
That job also comes with the title of director of pitching. While Enright has spent the past two years in the big leagues with the division-rival Los Angeles Angels, Enright’s new role looks as though the 39-year-old is going to be more focused on the young arms coming up through the minor leagues.
The former big leaguer was the Angels’ pitching coach for the past two seasons under former manager Ron Washington. During those two seasons Los Angeles’ pitching staff ranked 26th and 28th in ERA, respectively, though the Angels didn’t really do much to give him talent these past two seasons. It’s a results based game though and Enright’s pitchers didn’t perform well enough. Now that former A’s catcher Kurt Suzuki is the new manager down south, he wanted to shake things up and decided not to bring Enright back for a third season in LA., which has ultimately led to him joining up with the A’s.
As for the Athletics’ side of things, Enright is replacing Mike McFerran, who has already departed to join the Kansas City Royals as an assistant pitching coach:
This will be Enright’s third coaching location since retiring from playing. He first got his hand at the coaching ranks within the Diamondbacks organization, starting out at Short-A and working as their pitching coach for a couple of seasons. That experience was needed but well worth it for Enright. Just two short years later he was hired to his first big league coaching staff, getting promoted to be the Diamondbacks’ assistant pitching coach while also serving as their minor league pitching coordinator. Juggling those two jobs at the same time for two seasons couldn’t have been easy but that sort of experience should help him with the Athletics, who will be asking him to do the same thing again with the minor leaguers.
As a former big league pitcher he should command respect amongst the farmhands. The right-hander pitched in parts of four big league seasons, first getting to the big leagues with the Arizona Diamondbacks in 2010 and pitching to a solid 3.91 ERA across 17 starts. That was the high water mark of his professional career. He spent two years there before heading to the American League when he joined the Angels in 2012. He wrapped up his brief career with a 5.57 ERA across 148 innings, with most of that coming his rookie year in Arizona as a starting pitcher. Not a bad career in the slightest.
Perhaps most memorably about Enright for A’s fans, he was the one on the mound when former A’s All-Star Brandon Moss ended that epic 19-inning marathon game back in 2013:
Let’s hope he does a better job getting the A’s young pitchers ready for the big leagues than he did that night. I kid. Welcome about Barry!
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