This week, a priority for the Colorado Rockies is completing their coaching staff. According to reporting from MLB.com’s Thomas Harding, Alon Leichman will be their new pitching coach.
In addition, Harding noted this:
Leichman’s coaching career began in 2015 with the Yarmouth-Denis Red Sox in 2015. In 2016, he was recruited by the Los Angeles Dodgers as a coach for their instructional league.
The Seattle Mariners hired Leichman in 2017. First, he worked in their player development system and in 2018 became the pitching coach of their Dominican Academy in the Dominican Republic. After that, in 2019, he was promoted to pitching coach of the Single-A affiliate West Virginia Power. The next two years, 2020-2021, saw him as the pitching coach of the Mariners’ Double-A affiliate, the Arkansas Travelers. He was promoted to the Triple-A Tacoma Rangers in 2022.
In 2023, when he was 33, Leichman made the jump to MLB when he was hired by the Cincinnati Reds as an assistant pitching coach. At the end of the 2024 season, he took the same job with the Miami Marlins.
Ryan Spilborghs had this to say of the rumored hire:
Leichman will serve as the pitching coach for Team Israel in the 2026 World Baseball Classic.
This is a developing story.
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