Angels make two nontraditional hires to their MLB player development staff

Yesterday evening, Kyle Boddy, the founder of Driveline, informed the public that the Angels had hired numerous baseball coaches from unorthodox backgrounds to join the organization’s player development staff.

I regret to inform you that the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim have hired not one, not two, but three - yes, three - baseball coaches from twitter dot com with little to no previous pro experience, and none currently coaching pro baseball.@TJeskeLAA was first to go public. pic.twitter.com/pkWaD3uo7b

— Kyle Boddy (@drivelinebases) November 20, 2018 Fabian Ardaya of The Athletic broke the news that those two are Tyler Jeske, a Director of Baseball Operations at Missouri State, and Derek…