The Rangers officially announced their coaching staff for the upcoming season today, including the additions of bench coach Luis Urueta, assistant pitching coach Dave Bush, bullpen coach Jordan Tiegs and hitting coach Justin Viel.
The 43-year-old Urueta served as the Marlins' bench coach under Skip Schumaker and also held a bench coach position with the Diamondbacks before his time in Miami. The Rangers hired Schumaker earlier this month as a senior adviser to president of baseball operations Chris Young, and it was reported at the time that Urueta was expected to be named manager Bruce Bochy's replacement coach. In addition to his time as a bench coach in Miami and Arizona, Urueta spent more than a decade as a coach and manager in the D-Backs' minor league system.
Bush, 45, was the Red Sox pitching coach from 2020 to 2023 and joined the Rangers in January as the organization's director of pitching strategy. In that role, he worked with both the coaching staff and front office, and Bush even stepped in as interim pitching coach during the 2024 season when pitching coach Mike Maddux was briefly absent from the club.
Tiegs, 37, will be joining a major league coaching staff for the first time but has already spent six years in the Rangers' organization. He has been a pitching coach at several minor league levels and worked with the Rangers' player development team as the team's minor league pitching coordinator. He was also a college ball coach at two different schools in his native Indiana (University of Indianapolis and Indiana State University).
Many are hiring was first reported on November 1st. The 34-year-old was an assistant hitting coach with the Giants and worked with current Rangers offensive coordinator Donnie Ecker on San Francisco's staff in 2020-21.
Bochy will return to Rangers for a third time as manager. In addition to Urueta, Bush, Viel and Tiegs, the Rangers will welcome back Ecker, first base coach Corey Ragsdale, third base coach Tony Beasley, catching coach Bobby Wilson, assistant hitting coach Seth Conner and quality control coach Brett Hayes.
