Dave Bush will become Red Sox new pitching coach
The Red Sox finalized an agreement to elevate minor league pitching coordinator of performance Dave Bush to the role of pitching coach, according to a major league source.
Bush joined the Red Sox in 2016 as an analyst working with minor leaguers before moving into a coordinator role following the 2018 season. Hehas worked with numerous Red Sox prospects on pitch design and pitch mixes, trying to maximize the effectiveness of their arsenals. In 2019, he also joined the big league team for multiple stretches, assisting former pitching coach Dana LeVangie.
Bush emerged as the clear front-runner from a pool of five candidates interviewed by the Red Sox this offseason prior to the hiring of Chaim Bloom as the team chief baseball officer.
Rather than reopening the search, in a sign of the much-discussed collaboration that Bloom and others in the Red Sox organization discussed at his introduction on Monday, the new Red Sox baseball operations leader was comfortable with the comprehensive process that led the team to promote Bush.
The search was necessitated by the decision after the 2019 season to reassign LeVangie, after two years as manager Alex Cora’s pitching coach, to a role on the pro scouting staff following a year when the Red Sox forged a 4.70 ERA, 19th in the big leagues.
Bush, 39, pitched in the big leagues for the Blue Jays, Brewers, and Rangers for parts of nine years, going 56-69 with a 4.73 ERA. Before joining the Sox, the Maine resident also spent time coaching high school as well as international competition.
