Nationals add former M’s manager as a coach

Published 12:05 pm Friday, November 20, 2009

WASHINGTON — The Washington Nationals have hired former Seattle Mariners manager John McLaren as bench coach, Jim Lett as bullpen coach and Dan Radison as first-base coach.

The team also announced Friday that hitting coach Rick Eckstein, pitching coach Steve McCatty and third-base coach Pat Listach will keep their jobs on manager Jim Riggleman’s staff in 2010.

Riggleman was McLaren’s bench coach with Seattle at the start of 2008, then replaced him as the team’s skipper when McLaren was fired during the season.

McLaren was a special assignment scout for the Tampa Bay Rays in 2009.

Lett was a coach in Milwaukee’s minor league system the past two years and has been a bench coach for four clubs during 11 major league seasons.