{"id":14146,"date":"2024-12-01T10:56:41","date_gmt":"2024-12-01T10:56:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/?p=14146"},"modified":"2024-12-01T10:56:41","modified_gmt":"2024-12-01T10:56:41","slug":"coaching-promotion-and-hires-confirmed-for-cubs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/?p=14146","title":{"rendered":"Coaching Promotion and Hires Confirmed for Cubs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chicago Cubs manager Craig Counsell has promoted Casey Jacobson to replace Daniel Moskos as the team\u2019s assistant pitching coach after Moskos left to become the head pitching coach for the Miami Marlins earlier this week.<\/p>\n<p>Jacobson has been with the Cubs for the past five years and just finished up his second season as minor-league senior coordinator of pitching development. Prior to his time with the Cubs Jacobson worked for Driveline Baseball in Washington and spent six years coaching in college.<\/p>\n<p>Via The Athletic.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Those within the organization laud Jacobson for his interpersonal skills and ability to connect with young pitchers by earning their trust by clearly delivering messages and tying it into what the player actually values. Multiple people in the organization noted his empathy with players and staff as he works to know who the human is in order to ensure that it\u2019s clear he cares about a player\u2019s development over his own self interests, which has helped with buy-in.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Counsell has made several changes to his coaching staff following the 2024 season. He\u2019s already replaced Willie Harris with Quentin Berry as the third base coach, hired a new bullpen coach in Mark Strittmatter, while also promoting Mark Weisman and Kevin Poppe from the minor league staff to lead the big-league team\u2019s strength and conditioning program.<\/p>\n<p>Andy Haines, who was with the Cubs from 2016-18 and then served as the hitting coach for the Milwaukee Brewers and Pittsburgh Pirates, was also brought back to the organization this offseason.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ll see who the new first base coach will be once Counsell\u2019s full 2025 coaching staff is announced soon.<\/p>\n<p>One other hiring has gone under the radar and that\u2019s Hall of Fame coach Jerry Weinstein. He announced on social media back in October that he was joining the Cubs, but we haven\u2019t seen reporting on his position with the team. The only indication on what his role is comes from Weinstein\u2019s LinkedIn page, where he lists his title as special assistant to the General Manager.<\/p>\n<p>Hand up, I knew nothing about Jerry Weinstein before Monday night, when he announced that he\u2019s joining the Cubs, but holy shit is his bio impressive. The hall of fame coach has been part of the Colorado Rockies organization for nearly the past two decades and his time as a coach goes all the way back to 1966, as a freshman coach at UCLA.<\/p>\n<p>Weinstein, who will turn 81-years-old in November, is now ready for a new journey with the Cubs.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">enough good things about the players as well. I can honestly say I never had a bad day. However, I have been offered an expanded role with the Cubs and I am looking forward to this new challenge.<br \/>\nVery sincerely,<br \/>\njw<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jerry Weinstein (@JWonCATCHING) October 8, 2024<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The baseball lifer has pretty much done every job in the sport short of managing in the big leagues. Seriously, Weinstein has done it all, coaching in college, the minor leagues, college players in summer ball, while also working in player development and he\u2019s also coached internationally for Team USA in several competitions and managed Team Israel in the 2017 World Baseball Classic.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s not all as Weinstein also authored co-authored <em>Baseball Coach\u2019s Survival Guide: Practical Techniques and Materials for Building an Effective Program and a Winning Team<\/em> with Tom Alston. You might sarcastically think, oh an 80-year-old coach, must be pretty active, and well Weinstein actually is.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Throwing club from Oates Specialties to help players re pattern their arm path\/arm swing from longer to shorter. pic.twitter.com\/a7L3YVHPef<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jerry Weinstein (@JWonCATCHING) October 5, 2024<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Weinstein has been inducted into four different hall of fames throughout his life.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Sacramento City College Athletic Hall of Fame<\/li>\n<li>California Community College Hall of Fame<\/li>\n<li>American Baseball Coaches Association\u00a0Hall of Fame<\/li>\n<li>Sacramento Baseball Hall of Fame<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And just a few more accolades of note.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0In 2018, he received\u00a0<em>Baseball America\u2019<\/em>s Tony Gwynn Lifetime Achievement Award.\u00a0In 2020 he was named recipient of the American Baseball Coaches Association\/Wilson Lefty Gomez Award\u00a0for contributions to the game locally, nationally, and internationally.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>What a career and it appears as though he\u2019s still going strong.<\/p>\n<p>Weinstein has been known for his work with developing catchers and while there hasn\u2019t been any official word on what his role will be with the Cubs, it shouldn\u2019t surprise us if he immediately goes to work with 20-year-old catching prospect Moises Ballesteros.<\/p>\n<p>The top-100 Cubs prospect is currently playing the Arizona Fall League and despite his age Ballesteros already reached Triple-A this year. His development behind the plate could be vital in the Cubs success during the next decade and maybe Weinstein\u2019s guidance can be the key to unlock Ballesteros\u2019 full potential as a catcher at the big league level.<\/p>\n<p>One last thing, pretty cool that Weinstein is also active on social media, constantly posting his insights online.<\/p>\n<p>Whatever his role ends up being, looks like a home run hire from the Cubs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More changes confirmed to Craig Counsell&#8217;s coaching staff for the 2025 season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":14149,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mlb"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Coaching Promotion and Hires Confirmed for Cubs - 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