The Athletic, Tyler Kepner<\/a> put together a list of notable names to watch when this next hiring cycle gets into full gear. One current Brewers assistant coach was listed among the names, but it\u2019s probably not who you would have expected.<\/p>\nFirst base coach Spencer Allen.<\/p>\n
The 48 year old Allen is in his first season as the Brewers first base coach. He has been in the organization since 2022, starting as a field coordinator and then most recently serving as the team\u2019s Director of Player Development before being moved to the on-field staff for 2026.<\/p>\n
Prior to joining the Brewers, Allen was the head coach for Northwestern\u2019s baseball team.<\/p>\n
The Brewers moved Allen to the on-field staff to replace Julio Borbon because they wanted more aggression on the basepaths again. It\u2019s worked so far as the Brewers have the most stolen bases in baseball with 36.<\/p>\n
Allen clearly is highly regarded around the league. He\u2019s been a head coach before at the college level, has experience in player development on the pro side, and now the on-field MLB coaching experience. That checks just about every box you could look for in terms of experience, and he\u2019s still fairly young at 48 years old.<\/p>\n
Still, Allen probably would not have been most people\u2019s first guess for a Brewers assistant coach to be on the radar for managerial jobs since this is his first year with the on-field staff and his previous work in the organization has been more behind the scenes in player development.<\/p>\n
It wouldn\u2019t surprise me if third base coach Matt Erickson, offense and strategy coordinator Jason Lane, or field coordinator Nestor Corredor also get some looks at managerial jobs in the future. They weren\u2019t listed by The Athletic for this cycle, however.<\/p>\n
Also on the list of candidates was Walker McKinven, the former Brewers strategy coordinator who became the White Sox bench coach prior to last season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Milwaukee Brewers have been a model of success for the past decade and it\u2019s quite clear the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":684447,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2401],"tags":[5,136,843,59,4514,11404,4280,4],"class_list":["post-684446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-milwaukee-brewers","tag-baseball","tag-brewers","tag-milwaukee","tag-milwaukee-brewers","tag-milwaukee-brewers-news","tag-milwaukee-brewers-rumors","tag-milwaukeebrewers","tag-mlb"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116478852759850927","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=684446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684446\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/684447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=684446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=684446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=684446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}