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Full Phillies coaching staff returning

POSTED: Thursday, October 20, 2011, 5:04 PM

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Charlie Manuel and the rest of the Phillies coaching staff will return in 2012. (Yong Kim/Staff Photographer)

All six of the Phillies’ major league coaches have agreed to contracts for the 2012 season, the Phillies announced today.

Mick Billmeyer (bullpen), Rich Dubee (pitching), Greg Gross (hitting), Pete Mackanin (bench), Sam Perlozzo (first base) and Juan Samuel (third base), along with bullpen catcher Jesus Tiamo, will resume their respective positions.

“I couldn’t be happier to have the whole staff back for another season,” Manuel said in a statement. “Their dedication and work ethic speak for themselves and they were a huge part of our 102 wins.”

Billmeyer, 47, is the longest-tenured member of the coaching staff after joining it in 2004 as the major league catching instructor.

The 2012 season will be his ninth with the Phillies and the eighth for Dubee, fourth for Mackanin and Perlozzo, third for Gross and second for Samuel.

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Comments (63)

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 1:19 PM, 10/24/2011

Keep selling Pretzels at the corner and stay away from baseball, you're not good at it.

— EL Zorro

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 2:56 PM, 10/24/2011

Sniff sniff. Smells like a message board troll.....

— TeamAwesome

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 4:26 PM, 10/24/2011

In real news, not the nonesense some of you guys are talking, it's official, the Phillies declined the options on Lidge and Oswalt. That's a good start in the youth movement.

— EL Zorro