The Tampa Bay Rays and Manager Kevin Cash today finalized their major league coaching staff for 2019.
Paul Hoover (that mean mug pictured above) has been promoted to major league field coordinator, and Jonathan Erlichman will serve as process and analytics coach. In addition, the Rays hired Justin Su’a as major league mental skills coach.
Hoover, now 42, becomes the second major league field coordinator in club history, following Rocco Baldelli, who filled the newly-created role in 2018 prior to being hired as the Minnesota Twins manager on Oct. 25. He spent the past six seasons (2013-18) as the Rays minor league catching coordinator, after entering the coaching ranks in 2012 as the manager of the Gulf Coast League Rays.