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Born: Wahiawa, Hawaii | January 25, 1975|
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Brendan Masayoshi Sagara (born January 25,1975) is an American professional baseball coach. He was a pitching coach for the Texas Rangers of Major League Baseball (MLB). [1]
Sagara attended Leilehua High School in Wahiawa,Hawaii,and the University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo,where he played college baseball for the Hawaii–Hilo Vulcans from 1992 to 1996. [2] He pitched in four games for the Evansville Otters of the Frontier League in 1999. [3] From 2000 through 2012,Sagara served as a pitching coach and as an assistant director of player procurement for various independent professional leagues. [4] [5] Sagara served as an assistant coach for Hawaii–Hilo during the 2003–2004 season. [2]
From 2006 through 2010,Sagara served as an assistant scout for the New York Mets. [2] He served as a scout for the Atlanta Braves from 2010 through 2012. [2] Sagara then joined the Miami Marlins organization and from 2011 through 2015,served as a pitching coach in their minor league system. [2] Sagara was the Marlins assistant pitching coordinator from 2016 through 2017. [2] Sagara was hired by the Chicago Cubs and served as their minor league pitching coordinator for the 2018 and 2019 seasons. [6] Sagara was then hired by the Texas Rangers to serve as the pitching coach for the Nashville Sounds in 2020. [7] He instead served as special assistant for player development at the Rangers 2020 alternate training site. [8] [9]
On October 26,2020,Sagara was promoted to co-pitching coach for the Rangers,alongside Doug Mathis. [10] The Rangers dismissed Mathis after the 2022 season and offered Sagara a different position within the organization. [11]
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