February 5th, 2025 at 9:45 am 
by Ron Cervenka On Wednesday the Dodgers announced their coaching staff for the upcoming 2025 season.
Coming off their 2024 World Series win over the New York Yankees (and as surprise to no one), the 2025 Dodgers brain trust will remain basically unchanged.
I use the word ‘basically’ because, although the names remains the same, several of their specific assignments and titles have changed.
Per the Dodgers website, their 2025 coaching staff will look like:
- Manager: Dave Roberts
- Bench Coach: Danny Lehmann
- First-base Coach/Infield Coaching Specialist: Chris Woodward
- Third-base Coach: Dino Ebel
- Pitching Coach: Mark Prior
- Major League Field Coordinator – Bob Geren
- Major League Development Integration Coach – Brandon McDaniel
- Hitting Coach: Robert Van Scoyoc
- Hitting Coach: Aaron Bates
- Assistant Pitching Coach: Connor McGuiness
- Bullpen Coach: Josh Bard
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Ron, can you shed anymore light on what Andrew Friedman, Brandon Gomes, Mark Prior and the rest of
the pitching staff along with Dr. El Etrache and the trainers concluded this offseason on the cause of so
many injuries to the Dodgers pitchers? Especially in regard’s to UCL injuries requiring T.J. surgery?
Were they able to point to something specific or still looking at it?
Thanks Ron.
Great question, Steve. Unfortunately, due to health concerns, I will not be making the trip to Glendale this year. That said, I will definitely keep my ear to the rail and will pass along anything I hear.
Thank you for your continuing support.
On Dec. 17, 2024, MLB published its preliminary findings about pitching injuries (MLB releases report on injuries to pitchers) — well worth the reading time. The report concludes with recommendation for further study on: Offseason pitcher training and pitcher early-season workloads
Pitchers’ non-game training activities
Biomechanics and pitching styles
Measuring pitcher fatigue
Pitcher injury trends and injury management in foreign leagues like Japan’s NPB and Korea’s KBO
Amateur baseball’s injury risk factors
The injury rate of amateur players in the U.S. vs. amateur players from other countries
My personal opinion, so many players, parents, and coaches at early player development are focusing on velocity and building arm strength through the questionable use of weighted baseballs and excessive numbers of pitches in training that they are contributing to the epidemic of arm injuries.
While the Dodgers control innings pitched, the damage has already been done years before. JMO.