Rick Kranitz will not return as the Philadelphia Phillies pitching coach in 2019. Instead, Ken Rosenthal of The Athletic is reporting that assistant pitching coach Chris Young, who had received interested from “multiple” teams, has been promoted to the post. Kranitz, meanwhile, will be allowed to seek other jobs in baseball, per Rosenthal.
This move appears to be less of an indictment on the job that Kranitz did as pitching coach in 2018, but rather a sign of how highly the Phillies think of Young, a former Houston Astros scout.
At the same time, the Phillies starting rotation was excellent in the first-half of the regular season.