The Dodgers' minor league teaching employees for 2024 was unveiled Friday, with new managers at Excessive-A Nice Lakes and the Arizona Complicated League this season.
Triple-A Oklahoma Metropolis supervisor Travis Barbary has been in that place since 2019. Scott Hennessy has managed Double-A Tulsa since 2017. Dodgers captain of participant growth John Shoemaker, who has been with the group since 1977, and has coached from 1981, he’s again to handle Low-A Rancho Cucamonga for a fourth consecutive season.
The Dodgers named Shoemaker the captain of the participant growth group in 2015. He has had many roles in his four-plus a long time as a coach, together with teaching or managing in additional than a dozen completely different cities.
Hennessey has managed Tulsa since 2017. He took a depart of absence from the Drillers final June after being identified with Stage 3 squamous cell carcinoma most cancers, and underwent months of chemotherapy remedy. In December, Hennessey introduced that the most cancers is gone, and that he would return to handle Tulsa in 2024.
“I'm so excited and excited to be again for subsequent season,” Hennessey mentioned in a press release. “I’m very grateful to the Los Angeles Dodgers for his or her unbelievable assist throughout my remedy. I additionally recognize the Drillers group and all of the followers who’ve reached out to me with telephone calls, texts and notes of encouragement and assist. I’ll always remember.”
Jair Fernandez, 37, has coached within the Dodgers system since 2017, together with the final 4 minor league seasons as supervisor. He’s the brand new supervisor at Nice Lakes. He managed within the Arizona Complicated League in 2019, 2022, and 2023, and managed within the Dominican Summer time League in 2021. He was beforehand with the Loons in 2017-18 because the Loons' hitting coach.
Juan Apodaca, 37, was the bench coach at Tulsa final season, and can now handle the Dodgers workforce within the Arizona Complicated League.
Listed here are the teaching staffs at every minor league degree (new positions are underway).
Triple-A Oklahoma Metropolis
Supervisor: Travis Barbary
Bench coach: Chris Gutierrez
Hitting coach: Manny Burriss
Pitching coach: Doug Mathis
Pitching coach: Justin DeFratus
Athletic coach: Chelsea Willette
Athletic coach: Griffin Boyte
Efficiency coach: Paul Fournier
Efficiency coach: : Taylor Miller
Video / growth affiliate: : JD Osborne
Travis Barbary would turn into simply the second supervisor in OKC's Triple-A historical past to serve 5 consecutive seasons, becoming a member of Greg Biagini (1995-99). https://t.co/gmjJmfENbq
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Double-A Tulsa
Supervisor: Scott Hennessey
Bench coach: : Ronny Paulino
Hitting coach: : Dylan Nasiatka
Pitching coach: Ryan Dennick
Pitching coach: Durin O'Linger
Athletic coach: Jesse Guffey
Efficiency coach: : Dylan Quarles
Video / growth affiliate: : Tyler Hole
Paulino strikes from Rancho Cucamonga, the place he was the hitting coach and bench coach in 2023. Final 12 months's bench coach, Apodaca, is managing within the Arizona Complicated League this 12 months.
Nasiatka was additionally a hitting coach final 12 months with the Quakes. Quarles was the efficiency coach at Nice Lakes in 2023.
Excessive-A Nice Lakes
Supervisor: Jair Fernandez
Bench coach: Elian Herrera
Hitting coach: O'Koyea Dickson
Pitching coach: David Anderson
Pitching coach: Richard De Los Santos
Athletic coach: Ikuo Kato
Efficiency coach: : Jake Taylor
Related video: : Colby Wyatt
Low-A Rancho Cucamonga
Supervisor: John Shoemaker
Bench coach: : Cordell Hipolito
Hitting coach: : Blake Gailen
Pitching coach: Ramon Troncoso
Pitching coach: Sean Coyne
Efficiency coach: : Walter Lindo
Athletic coach: Akinori Maeda
Related video: : Dallas Younger
“The shoe has been nice for our followers, our group, our employees and for the gamers on the sector,” Quakes government chairman and normal supervisor Grant Riddle mentioned in a press release. “We're thrilled to be again for an additional 12 months and may't anticipate the season to begin!”
Hipolito had success final 12 months within the Dominican Summer time League, and is now the bench coach underneath Shoemaker.
Gailen is transferring on from the Arizona Complicated League.
Arizona Complicated League
Supervisor: : Juan Apodaca
Bench coach: Johan Garcia
Hitting coach: Danny Dorn
Hitting coach: : Kevin LaChance
Hitting coach: Johermyn Chavez
Pitching coach: Andres Urbina
Pitching coach: : Luis Vasquez
Complicated coach and coordinator: Fumi Ishibashi
Baseball expertise affiliation: : Harrison Schnurbusch
Efficiency coach: Jose Gutierrez
Efficiency affiliation: : Adam Shwery
Athletic coach: Alfredo Casillas
Athletic coach: Zoe Hicks
Assistant Athletic Coach: : Sienna Baldwin
Related video: : Gabriela Vitale
Related video: : Zach Rosenberg
Vasquez was the pitching coach at Double-A Tulsa in 2023.
Dominican Summer time League
Supervisor: Dunior Zerpa
Supervisor: : Leury Bonilla
Bench coach: : Jeremy Gaines
Hitting coach: Sergio Mendez
Hitting coach: Juan Diaz
Hitting coach: : Audy Ciriaco
Assistant hitting coach: : Victor Sosa
Pitching coach: Roberto Giron
Pitching coach: Raidel Chacon
Pitching coach: Hector Rodriguez
Pitching coach: Eduardo Dominguez
Assistant pitching coach: : Jose Rodulfo
Assistant pitching coach: : Jesus Canizales
Defensive coordinator: Peter Mega
Senior advisor, Campo Las Palmas: Antonio Bautista
Medical coordinator: : Jorge Gonzalez
Athletic coach: Jorge Rodriguez
Efficiency coach: Walter Lindo
Efficiency coach: Rafa Sepulveda
Efficiency coach: George Drullard
Physiotherapist: Walter LaChapel
Vitamin Coordinator: : Julissa Gomez
Affiliate Video: : Andres Acosta
Affiliate Video: : Jackson Cross
Schooling and venture assistant: : Jayza Rosario
Bonilla was a coach within the DSL final 12 months.