DENVER – The Colorado Rockies announced today the Major League coaching staff for the 2023 season, including two changes from 2022:

• Hensley Meulens named hitting coach
• Warren Schaeffer named third base / infield coach

Additionally, Mike Redmond (bench coach), Darryl Scott (pitching coach), Ron Gideon (first base coach), Reid Cornelius (bullpen coach), Andy González (assistant hitting coach) and P.J. Pilittere (assistant hitting coach) will all return to Manager Bud Black’s staff for the 2023 season.

“I’m excited to have Hensley and Warren join our coaching staff for the 2023 season,” said Black.  “They both bring their own unique set of skills and experiences to our club and they could not be more respected throughout both our organization and across all of baseball.”

Meulens (MEW-lens) 55, enters his first season with the Rockies organization after most recently serving as the assistant hitting coach for the New York Yankees (2022). Known throughout the game as ‘Bam Bam,’ Meulens began his coaching career as a hitting coach for the Rookie Level Bluefield Orioles (Baltimore) in 2003 and 2004. The Curaçao native would go on to serve as hitting coach at the Triple-A level for the Indianapolis Indians (Pittsburgh, 2005-08) and the Fresno Grizzlies (San Francisco, 2009) before gaining his first Major League coaching role, helping the San Francisco Giants win three World Series titles as hitting coach from 2010-17 and bench coach in 2018-19. Meulens became the New York Mets bench coach in 2020. Prior to coaching, Meulens played professionally for 17 seasons, including parts of seven seasons in the Major Leagues with New York-AL (1989-93), Montreal (1997) and Arizona (1998) while also playing for the Chiba Lotte Marines (1994) and Yakult Swallows (1995-96) of Nippon Professional Baseball. He represented the Netherlands in the 2000 Summer Olympics and returned to the team as a coach in 2004, going on to also serve as a coach for the country in the 2009 World Baseball Classic and manager in the 2013 tournament.

Schaeffer, 37, joins Bud Black’s staff after spending the past 10 seasons, mostly as a manager, in the Rockies Minor League system. He most recently was manager for the Triple-A Albuquerque Isotopes (2020-22), while also serving as the team’s third base coach and infield instructor. Schaeffer started his coaching career as hitting coach with the Single-A Asheville Tourists from 2013-14 before being promoted to manager. In his first season guiding Asheville, he led the Tourists to the South Atlantic League Championship Series before being promoted again to the Double-A Hartford Yard Goats as manager (2018-19). The Western Pennsylvania native was named manager of Triple-A Albuquerque prior to the 2020 season, which was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. During that season, Schaeffer managed the Rockies alternate training site. Before entering the coaching ranks, Schaeffer played six years in the Minor Leagues, all in the Rockies organization. An infielder, he was selected by Colorado in the 38th round of the 2007 First-Year Player Draft and proceeded to play for Rookie Level Casper (2007), Short-Season Tri-City (2007), Single-A Asheville (2008), High-A Modesto (2009), Double-A Tulsa (2010-12) and Triple-A Colorado Springs (2010-11).