Again in November, Guardians supervisor Stephen Vogt seemingly finalized his teaching workers for the 2025 season. As a part of that announcement, he revealed that a number of people had been promoted to new jobs on the workers, together with Craig Albernaz (promoted from bench coach to affiliate supervisor), Grant Fink (promoted from minor league hitting coordinator to main league hitting coach), Jason Esposito (promoted from run manufacturing coordinator to assistant hitting coach), and Kai Correa (promoted from main league discipline coordinator to main league discipline coordinator and director of protection, baserunning, and sport technique).
Nonetheless, it seems Vogt and the Guardians weren’t completed handing out promotions in any case. Earlier at this time, Cleveland introduced three extra modifications to the teaching workers. Brad Goldberg has been promoted to assistant pitching coach, Caleb Longshore has been promoted to bullpen coach, and interpreter Agustin Rivero has earned the title of main league coach.
Goldberg earns a promotion for the second offseason in a row. After starting his teaching profession at The Ohio State College, he joined the Guardians group as a minor league coach forward of the 2022 season. He then earned a job as the most important league bullpen coach for 2024. Now, he’ll work alongside pitching coach Carl Willis and fellow assistant pitching coach Joe Torres in his new position. Evidently, the staff is happy with the work Goldberg did in 2024, supporting a bullpen that was broadly thought of the perfect in baseball.
Getting into Goldberg’s outdated position is Longshore, who takes over as Cleveland’s bullpen coach. He was initially employed as a Excessive-A pitching coach for the 2022 marketing campaign and spent the 2023 and ’24 seasons because the staff’s organizational pitching coordinator. Like Goldberg, he additionally has collegiate teaching expertise, having labored with the Center Tennesee State College, Arkansas State College, and California Baptist College baseball groups.
Lastly, Rivero earns a promotion after six seasons with the Guardians. He got here aboard as an interpreter in 2019 and has taken on extra duties over time. These embody “aiding the teaching workers with all day-to-day capabilities” and “facilitating life abilities progress” for the membership’s Spanish-speaking gamers (per a Guardians press launch on MLB.com).
