The Houston Astros announced their minor-league staffs and coordinators for the 2025 season Monday!
Triple-A Sugar Land
Manager: Mickey Storey
Pitching Coach: Sean Buchanana
Hitting Coach: Joe Thurston
Development Coach: Wladimir Sutil
Athletic Trainer: Takeaki Ando
Strength Coach: Sam Knox
Dietician: Tara Boening
Mental Health: Justin McKissick
Storey returned to Sugar Land after leading Sugar Land to their first Triple-A National Championship in 2024. This will be his 5th season as the Sugar Land manager. Buchanan joins the staff for the first time in 2025 after his work with the Hooks as the pitching coach in 2024. This will be Thurston’s first season in Houston after spending the last three years in the Phillies system in Triple-A. Sutil enters his fourth season with Sugar Land and is ther longest tenured assistant coach with Storey.
Double-A Corpus Christi
Manager: Ricky Rivera
Pitching Coach: Alex Harter
Hitting Coach: Bobby Bell
Development Coach: Jeff Calhoon
Athletic Trainer: Jennifer Bardales
Strength Coach: Kevin Rivera
Dietician: Kara Beitler
Rivera received a promotion after two years leading the Single-A Fayetteville Woodpeckers and this will be his fifth season as a minor league manager.
“A big South Texas welcome to Ricky and the rest of our field staff,” Hooks General Manager Brady Ballard said in a release. “To win manager of the year in Puerto Rico, and to do so as the youngest skipper in the circuit, is quite an accomplishment.”
Harter joins the staff after one year of being the High-A Asheville Tourists’ pitching coach. Bell returns to Corpus Christi for his third year as the hitting coach. Calhoon was a member of the Woodpeckers staff last year with Rivera and is joining him in his move to Double-A, as will strength coach Kevin Rivera.
High-A Asheville
Manager: Nate Shaver
Pitching Coach: Zach Wilkins
Hitting Coach: TJ Burgmann
Development Coach: Eric Stamets
Athletic Trainer: Eric Pimentel
Strength Coach: Cesar Vina
Shaver is returning to Asheville after being the manager there the previous two seasons. Wilkins gets a promotion going from Fayetteville to Asheville for 2025. Burgmann has been with the Astros for two years and was a hitting coach in the FCL last year. Stamets will be returning for his third season with Asheville.
Single-A Fayetteville
Manager: Carlos Lugo
Pitching Coach: James Wiseman
Hitting Coach: Kyle Brennan
Development Coach: Alfredo Granier
Athletic Trainer: Daniel Gonzalez
Strength Coach: Jordan Small
Lugo has been with the Astros since 2014 in various roles but now gets his chance to manage a full season team. Wiseman begins his second season with the Astros and first in Fayetteville after being in the Florida Complex League last year. Brennan was also part of Lugo’s staff in 2024 and joins him in Fayetteville. Granier has been with the Astros since 2022 and was also with the FCL Astros in 2024.
