The Phillies still need a bench coach and a pitching coach for Gabe Kapler’s first season as manager, but they have a bullpen coach: Jim Gott, who pitched for 14 years in the majors and worked for the last five seasons in the Angels’ minor-league system.
Gott, 58, will replace John McLaren as bullpen coach. Gott pitched in 554 big-league games for four different teams but has never served as a coach in the majors. With Los Angeles, he was a minor-league pitching coordinator from 2013-17. He was a rookie-league pitching coach for three seasons prior to that.