On Dec. 9, the Rockies announced they were hiring Gabe Ribas, the Tigers' director of pitching from 2021-2025, as an assistant pitching coach. Ribas was poached from the Dodgers (he was a pitching coordinator in LA) and brought in under Al Avila's administration in Detroit, and survived the front office's transition over to Scott Harris alongside head pitching coach Chris Fetter.
Whatever Ribas and Fetter have done with the Tigers' pitching staff has clearly worked over the last few years. Will Vest and Tyler Holton have been revelations for the bullpen, they somehow managed to fix Jack Flaherty and Casey Mize, and how can we ever forget about Tarik Skubal, whose development into a two-time Cy Young winner can certainly be credited to Ribas and Fetter.