Giants Hire Bryan Price As Pitching Coach

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The Giants announced the hirings of Bryan Price as pitching coach and  as bullpen coach. of Alstons hiring surfaced yesterday, while first suggested two weeks ago that Price might be a candidate for the pitching coach role.  Price is best known for his tenure as the Reds manager, which lasted through parts of the 2014-18 seasons and ended in April 2018 after Cincinnati got off to a brutal 3-15 start. Price had a 279-387 record as manager, though that record isnt an entirely fair a se sment since the Reds were going through a rebuild for much of Prices time captaining the dugout.  Beyond that one managerial job, Price Eric Lauer Jersey  has had a long stretch of succe s as a pitching coach with the Mariners, Diamondbacks, Reds (from 2000-13), and then one more year as a pitching coach with the Phillies in 2020. That season was reportedly Prices last as a coach, as he then moved into a senior advisor role with the Padres over the last two seasons, yet it seems as though the 61-year-old will return to again team up with Giants manager Bob Melvin. Beyond the San Diego connection of the last two years, Melvin was managing in Seattle and Arizona during Prices previous stints as pitching coach.  Price takes on an interesting challenge in a Giants pitching staff that posted generally solid results in 2023, albeit in unusual fashion.  and  were used as regular starters, but for much of the season, the rest of the rotation spots were filled by a collection of bullpen games, piggybacked pitchers, and opener/bulk pitcher combinations.  ,  , and younger arms like  and  could again be used in some sort of similar capacity in 2024, yet the Giants are at adding some regular starters this winter, including such top names as  . It could be that Prices hiring might indicate some further move backwards an older-school approach to pitcher usage, and away from the more modern outs by any means nece sary approach of former manager  and former pitching coach  .  With these two hires now official, the Giants have , bringing in several names who are long-time Melvin staffers, former Giants players, or both. Price has some San Francisco ties himself, as he was born in the city back in 1962.  Devin Williams Jersey