Former Pirates manager Gene Lamont and Chris Truby join Pittsburgh’s coaching staff
Updated: 12:39 PM EDT May 16, 2025
The Pittsburgh Pirates are adding Chris Truby and Gene Lamont to manager Don Kelly’s coaching staff, the team announced Friday.The Pirates also said the role of third base coach Mike Rabelo will be expanded to work with Kelly on game planning and in-game strategy.It’s a return to the Pirates dugout for Lamont, 78, who was the team’s manager from 1997 to 2000 and a coach during Jim Leyland’s tenure in the 1980s and early 1990s. The Pirates said Lamont will be a special advisor to Kelly.Lamont was most recently on Detroit’s coaching staff in 2017. He has also been a coach with Boston and Houston, and he managed the Chicago White Sox from 1992 to 1995.Truby, 51, is being promoted from manager of the Triple-A Indianapolis Indians. In his new role as a Pirates coach, the team says he will work with the infielders.Truby played for Houston, Montreal, Detroit and Tampa Bay during his MLB career from 2000 to 2003.
PITTSBURGH —
The Pittsburgh Pirates are adding Chris Truby and Gene Lamont to manager Don Kelly’s coaching staff, the team announced Friday.
The Pirates also said the role of third base coach Mike Rabelo will be expanded to work with Kelly on game planning and in-game strategy.
It’s a return to the Pirates dugout for Lamont, 78, who was the team’s manager from 1997 to 2000 and a coach during Jim Leyland’s tenure in the 1980s and early 1990s. The Pirates said Lamont will be a special advisor to Kelly.
Lamont was most recently on Detroit’s coaching staff in 2017. He has also been a coach with Boston and Houston, and he managed the Chicago White Sox from 1992 to 1995.
Truby, 51, is being promoted from manager of the Triple-A Indianapolis Indians. In his new role as a Pirates coach, the team says he will work with the infielders.
Truby played for Houston, Montreal, Detroit and Tampa Bay during his MLB career from 2000 to 2003.