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Pittsburgh Pirates Extend Entire Coaching Staff Through 2019 Season

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The Pittsburgh Pirates announced on Thursday afternoon that they have extended the entire coaching staff for the next two years, running them through the 2019 season.

That group includes pitching coach Ray Searage, bench coach Tom Prince, hitting coach Jeff Branson, third base coach Joey Cora and first base coach Kimera Bartee.

Also returning will be Major League coach Dave Jauss, assistant hitting coach Jeff Livesey, bullpen coach Euclides Rojas and both bullpen catchers, Heberto Andrade and Jordan Comadena.

Searage will be in his eighth season with the team as a pitching coach in 2018, while Branson will be in his fifth year. Bartee, Cora and Prince are all in their second season for each coaching position, though all three have served in different roles for the Pirates in previous seasons. For Prince, this will be his 25th season with the team in some capacity. Cora is also the infield coach, while Bartee is also the outfield and base running coach.

Manager Clint Hurdle and General Manager Neal Huntington were each extended for four season back in September.

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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