Each season at TBOH we introduce fans to the Phillies coaching staff. Here in 2016, Ryan Gerstel and I will take a look at each of the 11 coaches on this year’s staff in a series that will run a couple of times every week all throughout spring training.
Today, I’ll be highlighting catching coach John McLaren, who begins his first season on that Phillies’ staff. McLaren was added just a couple of weeks after the end of the 2015 regular season. The 64-year-old brings 23 years of prior coaching experience in Major League Baseball.