The Braves announced seven more hires to their baseball operations staff including John Pierson as minor league hitting coordinator and longtime former University of Georgia baseball head coach Steve Webber as minor league pitching consultant.
Other hires included Andrew Hauser as director of player healthy and performance, Joe Metz as minor league medical coordinator, Kenny Dominguez as assistant rehabilitation instructor, Garrett Wilson as baseball operations analyst, and Noah Woodward as major league operations analyst.
Pierson, 62, served as the Miami Marlins’ field coordinator last season, his 12th in that organization and 20th in professional baseball. He was the Marlins’ interim hitting coach during the second half of the 2013 season. Pierson fills a position with the Braves that was left vacant during the 2015 season after Ronnie Ortegon resigned in February.
Webber, 67, served as pitching coach at Triple-A Oklahoma City in 2014, his second season in the Astros organization after nine seasons with the Padres and eight with the Yankees. Webber was Georgia’s coach for 16 seasons through 1996.
Hauser, 30, spent the past four seasons with Arizona and was the Diamondbacks’ medical coordinator in 2013. Metz, 31, was also comes to the Braves from the Diamondbacks organization, where he spent seven years and was Triple-A Reno’s trainer last season. Metz is board-certified as both an athletic trainer and strength and conditioning specialist.
Dominguez, 60, worked in the Brewers’ organization as a minor league hitting coach for six seasons through 2014, after previously working in the Yankees, Cubs, Phillies and Dodgers organizations.
Wilson, 34, is a 2003 graduate of Cornell who joins the Braves after working as an engineer with Amazon and Zillow. Woodward, 23, was an intern in the Orioles’ baseball analytics department and has written for Baseball Prospectus.
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