In an MLB Network Radio interview last week, new Washington Nationals' skipper Dusty Baker said Rick Schu was returning to the nation's capital though he did not confirm that Schu would be the Nats' hitting coach. Baker also said there were other roles that still needed to be filled.
"We're trying to decide between who the third base coach and the bench coach is," Baker explained. "Chris Speier is going to fill one of those voids," and, "we need to try to come up with a bullpen guy [and] a catching guy.