The Phillies announced the hiring of Mark Lowy as assistant pitching coach. He assumes the position vacated when Brian Kaplan was tabbed as Diamondbacks pitching coach yesterday.
Lowy moves onto an MLB staff for the first time. The 32-year-old had spent the ’24 season as Philadelphia’s lead pitching development analyst. Lowy has worked in the Phils’ player development department since 2021. After pitching at Gettysburg College, he worked at the independent training facility Cressey Sports Performance before joining the Phils.
Caleb Cotham is entering his fifth season as Philadelphia’s pitching coach. Lowy joins Cotham and bullpen coach Cesár Ramos on the pitching side of Rob Thomson’s staff.
Wooo hoooo! And with Lowy now as the new assitant pitching coach, Phillies General Manager Preston Mattingly issued the following ulitmatum to the other 29 MLB teams: “Surrender the 2025 World Series Championship Trophy now or else face our wrath!”
I read that ad Mark Lowry and thought… well…. they got Jesus on their side now.
Mark Lowry’s gotta have the minister/comedian racket all to himself. “Two Corinthians walk into a bar…”
When I was younger, I felt like teams had a manager, bench coach, hitting and pitching coach, 1st and 3rd base coach, a strength coach, and a trainer. That was the personnel that was in the dugout. Now teams have THREE hitting coaches, and hitting gets worse every year. 2-3 pitching coaches, and guys can get through 5 without throwing 100. Infield instructors and baserunning coaches. Just out of hand. More chiefs than indians, and the players are getting worse. Makes sense. These new age coaches and analytics are messing up my sport.
Yeah and we walked up to see a game and then had to walk up hill home with two left shoes. The game has changed, yes partly due to analytics, where guys can go more than 5 but teams know the third time through a line up works to the batter’s advantage. Hitting is not worse pitching is better and using more pitches in a game hurts hitters.
Rich the umpires and their brutally inconsistent strike zones certainly don’t help pitchers with high pitch counts.Ive always subscribed to the theory of days gone by, the more you throw,the more you can throw. Worked for the Seavers, Carltons, Gibsons, Jenkins and check out the Hof.
That’s the Hieys’ and Lowy’s of a career.