White Sox Hire Manny Machado’s Former Hitting Coach
Hmm, maybe one offseason too late.
While the White Sox didn’t make a change at manager, keeping Rick Renteria for the foreseeable future, they did replace their hitting coaches following the 2019 season. Back in October, Frank Menechino was promoted from hitting coach at Triple-A, replacing Todd Steverson on the South Side beginning in 2020.
The White Sox now have a new assistant hitting coach as well, hiring Scott Coolbaugh, who was the Dodgers’ Triple-A hitting coach in 2019.
Prior to 2019, Coolbaugh was the Orioles’ hitting coach from 2015-18. He was also the Rangers’ hitting coach from June 2011 through the 2012 season.
Coolbaugh, 53, played for the Rangers, Padres and Cardinals during his MLB career and also played in Japan for a few years. He was a player coach at Double-A in 1999, and managed or served as a hitting coaching in the minors ever since before making it to MLB with the Rangers in 2011.