Red Sox add Chris Holt to Major League coaching staff
BOSTON, MA¡ªThe Boston Red Sox today announced that they have added Chris Holt to the Major League coaching staff as Bullpen Coach.
Holt, 45, spent the past five seasons (2020-24) as Director of Pitching for the Baltimore Orioles, having also served as Major League Pitching Coach from 2021-23. He previously worked in the Orioles organization as an associate scout (2012-13) and as Minor League Pitching Coordinator (2019). Prior to joining the Orioles, Holt worked in the Houston Astros organization as a pitching coach for Short-Season Single-A Tri-City (2014-15), Single-A Quad Cities (2016), and High-A Buies Creek (2017), and then as Assistant Pitching Coordinator in 2018.
Selected by the Pittsburgh Pirates in the 21st round of the 2002 First-Year Player Draft out of Flagler College (FL), Holt spent one season as a pitcher in the Pirates system before beginning his coaching career. After serving as an assistant coach at Flagler from 2004-07, he coached at Allen D. Nease High School (2008) and Ponte Vedra High School (2008-11). From 2012-14, in addition to his duties with the Orioles and Astros, Holt worked as a pitching instructor at the Winning Inning, a baseball academy in Clearwater, Florida.
A native of Portland, Maine, Holt graduated in 1998 from Cheverus High School. He attended St. Joseph¡¯s College of Maine before transferring to Flagler.