After the Minnesota Twins hired Garvin Alston to be the new pitching coach, they believed that they were done with filling out their major league coaching staff. That was true, until bench coach Joe Vavra informed the team on Tuesday that he would be leaving the organization to take the role of quality control coach for the Detroit Tigers under former Twins manager Ron Gardenhire.
Vavra’s Minnesota Twins tenure
Joe Vavra has been with the Minnesota Twins organization for quite some time. He joined the Twins in 2002 after serving time in the Dodgers minor league system as a manager before spending a short time with University of Wisconsin-Stout as the head coach.