Overview
- Buck steps up from pitching coordinator after roughly one year with the organization and will oversee pitching development across the majors and all minor league affiliates.
- He fills the role vacated when Justin Willard left earlier this fall to become the Mets’ pitching coach.
- Before joining Boston in January, Buck spent five seasons in the Yankees system and previously coached in college for about a dozen years.
- Boston also added Quinn Cleary as assistant director of pitching and head pitching strategist, and hired Ryan Otero as a special assistant to the chief baseball officer.
- The promotion aligns with recent gains from the club’s development program highlighted by Connelly Early and Payton Tolle, with first-rounder Kyson Witherspoon headlining the next wave and recent pitching additions including Sonny Gray, Johan Oviedo, Ryan Watson, Tyler Samaniego, and Jake Bennett.