Orioles executive vice president Dan Duquette said Wednesday that he has extended contract offers for the 2016 season to all of the existing coaches on the Orioles’ staff.
The contracts for the seven coaches on Buck Showalter’s staff – bench coach John Russell, pitching coach Dave Wallace, bullpen coach Dom Chiti, first-base coach Wayne Kirby, third-base coach Bobby Dickerson, hitting coach Scott Coolbaugh and assistant hitting coach Einar Diaz – all expire at the end of this month.
Coaches received calls this week expressing the organization’s desire to retain them and Duquette said he planned to meet with the staff again this week with hopes of getting the coaching staff re-signed in the upcoming days.