Red Sox tab Will Venable as bench coach in Cora's return

Posted November 20, 2020 6:00 am

The Associated Press

BOSTON (AP) - The Boston Red Sox have hired Will Venable to be a bench coach on manager Alex Cora's staff.

Venable spent the last three seasons with the Cubs as a first- and third-base coach after a 12-year career as a major league outfielder, mostly with the San Diego Padres. Venable, whose father, Max, also spent a dozen years in the majors, played both basketball and baseball at Princeton.

The Red Sox also said that Jason Varitek has been named game planning coordinator, RamÃ³n VÃ¡zquez will be the quality control coach and interpreter, and Kevin Walker has been named bullpen coach.

Picthing coach Dave Bush, hitting coach Tim Hyers, assistant hitting coach Peter Fatse, first-base coach Tom Goodwin and third-base coach Carlos Febles will be back in their previous roles.

Cora is returning to the dugout after serving a one-season suspension for his role in the Houston Astros' sign-stealing scheme. Ron Roenicke managed the team to a last-place finish in the pandemic-shortened 2020 season.

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