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Andy Barkett Joins Red Sox Coaching Staff

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Andy Barkett announced on Twitter on Saturday afternoon that he is joining the Boston Red Sox coaching staff as the assistant hitting coach. Barkett spent this last season managing the Indianapolis Indians, the Triple-A farm team of the Pittsburgh Pirates. He led them to the playoffs, winning the International League West division with a 79-63 record.

Before that he was the minor league hitting coordinator for the Pirates. He also played for the Pirates in 2001, which was his lone appearance in the majors during an 11-year pro career. Barkett has nine years of managerial experience in the minors.

John Dreker
John Dreker
John started working at Pirates Prospects in 2009, but his connection to the Pittsburgh Pirates started exactly 100 years earlier when Dots Miller debuted for the 1909 World Series champions. John was born in Kearny, NJ, two blocks from the house where Dots Miller grew up. From that hometown hero connection came a love of Pirates history, as well as the sport of baseball. When he didn't make it as a lefty pitcher with an 80+ MPH fastball and a slider that needed work, John turned to covering the game, eventually focusing in on the prospects side, where his interest was pushed by the big league team being below .500 for so long. John has covered the minors in some form since the 2002 season, and leads the draft and international coverage on Pirates Prospects. He writes daily on Pittsburgh Baseball History, when he's not covering the entire system daily throughout the entire year on Pirates Prospects.

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