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Pirates announce two-year contracts for entire coaching staff

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Pirates announce two-year contracts for entire coaching staff

Two months after they inked four-year contract extensions with general manager Neal Huntington and manager Clint Hurdle, the Pirates announced Thursday they will retain Hurdle’s entire coaching staff through 2019.

The two-year contracts apply to the following coaches:

  • first base coach and outfield/baserunning instructor Kimera Bartee
  • hitting coach Jeff Branson
  • third base coach and infield coach Joey Cora
  • major league coach Dave Jauss
  • assistant hitting coach Jeff Livesey
  • bench coach Tom Prince 
  • bullpen coach Euclides Rojas
  • pitching coach Ray Searage

Bullpen catchers Heberto Andrade and Jordan Comadena will also be retained. 

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Huntington previously said the Pirates expected to keep their coaching staff intact despite a lackluster 2017 campaign in which the team went 75-87 and finished fourth in the National League Central. 

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“We as an industry are all too quick to anoint gurus and want to fire coaches when the team doesn’t produce,” Huntington said in early October. “It’s a group effort. It’s a collective effort. … Our coaches worked really hard to get the most out of what they’re given, and that’s a testament to them.”

Elizabeth Bloom: ebloom@post-gazette.com, 412-263-1750 and Twitter: @BloomPG.

First Published: November 2, 2017, 6:37 p.m.

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