Georgia Tech coach Danny Hall has hired a new pitching coach with remarkable credentials – Danny Borrell will come to Tech after having served as the pitching coordinator for the New York Yankees’ farm system since 2015. The hire was announced Friday.
Borrell succeeds Jason Howell, who left in a mutual parting after the season following seven seasons with Hall and the Yellow Jackets. As pitching coordinator for the Yankees, Borrell oversaw about 180 pitches and 11 pitching coaches across nine minor-league affiliates. He has helped send 34 pitchers to the major leagues, including all-stars Dellin Betances and Luis Severino.
“You could not have hired anyone better to be the pitching coach,” Yankees pitching coach Larry Rothschild said in a statement.
Borrell starred at Wake Forest as a two-way player 1998-2000 before getting drafted in the second round by the Yankees. He played nine seasons in the minor leagues before the Yankees hired him as a pitching coach and then as coordinator.
“I am so excited to have Danny Borrell as our pitching coach,” Hall said in a statement. “He has excelled at every level of baseball. He will use his experience as a player, coach, and pitching coordinator of the New York Yankees to mold and develop our pitching staff. Everyone I have spoken to about ‘D-Bo’ talks about his ability to blend mechanics with the new age of analytics and technology to develop pitchers.”
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