The Kansas City Royals today announced their minor league staff assignments and minor league coordinators for the 2019 season.
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Omaha manager Brian Poldberg returns to lead the Storm Chasers for a sixth season, including a Triple-A championship in 2014. He will be joined on the bench by pitching coach, Andy Hawkins, who is returning to Omaha for his fourth season after serving as the bullpen coach of the Texas Rangers the previous seven seasons. Brian Buchanan will serve as Omaha’s hitting coach for a second consecutive season. Buchanan is entering his 10th year in the organization, including a six-year run as manager at Idaho Falls (2010–11), Kane County (2012), Lexington (2013–14) and Wilmington (2015), plus one-year stints as the hitting coach at Northwest Arkansas (2016) and as the assistant hitting coach with the Major League club (2017).