For seven consecutive seasons, from 2011 to 2017, now-Phillies manager Joe Girardi and bench coach Rob Thomson, along with pitching coach Larry Rothschild, worked as members of the New York Yankees coaching staff.
Since, the former Yankees manager has been out of baseball, while Thomson has been on the Phillies’ coaching staff. Rothschild, meanwhile, had remained with the Yankees until Monday, as according to the New York Post’s Joel Sherman, he is being removed as the 27-time World Series champion’s pitching coach.
Sherman tweets, “[The] Yankees more and more are moving toward new-age techniques to develop/game prep their pitchers, from the minors up.