Brent Strom has been hired as the Pittsburgh Pirates’ assistant pitching coach. The 76-year-old will work with Oscar Marin, the team’s pitching coach since 2020. A big league pitcher from 1972-77, Strom was pitching coach of Houston in 1996 and from 2014-21, Kansas City from 2000 through 2001 and Arizona from 2022 through 2024.
FILE - Arizona Diamondbacks pitching coach Brent Strom walks to the dugout during a baseball game against the San Francisco Giants in San Francisco, Sunday, April 21, 2024. PITTSBURGH — Brent Strom didn’t want his lengthy coaching career to end on a sour note after Arizona dismissed the longtime pitching guru in October.The Pirates hired Strom as assistant pitching coach on Thursday.
Arizona narrowly missed a return to the postseason this year, thanks in part to a staff with a 4.62 ERA, 27th in the majors. Strom was fired in the aftermath. Strom, who has worked Justin Verlander, Gerrit Cole and Dallas Keuchel among others, says he has no desire to “be the lead dog.”
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