The baseball team's final game of the 2025 season was September 28th.

A dozen days have passed since then, and the only change, repeating this for dramatic emphasis,

the only change that's been made was the combined firing of the pitching coach and the third base coach.

Good morning to you.

Good. Friday morning, I'm Dan Kovachievich of D.K. Pittsburgh

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penguins that I hope you'll additionally check out. Oscar Marine was fired, of course, almost immediately after the season ended.

Mike Rebella was fired.

Brent Strom, the older assistant pitching coach, had informed the team a month before season's

end that he'd be retiring.

And otherwise, here we are.

Here we are.

Because everything was just fine.

Now, if you say, and they kind of hinted at this themselves, meaning Ben Charington and

Don Kelly, that more changes might be on the way, I'll remind that it is considered to be beyond common courtesy

for teams to let their assistant coaches know their status as soon as possible after game number 162.

The reason for that, I should think, would be obvious.

Most of them, in fact, almost all of them are on one-year contracts.

That's just the way the business works.

So they tend to lead pretty nomadic existences, but they've got to pick up families and move them,

and, you know, they've got to make sure they have a job to wherever it is that they're moving.

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