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12/03/08 2:00 PM EST

Brewers announce Minor League staffs

Money moving up to manage Triple-A Nashville

Former Brewers third baseman Don Money has managed in Milwaukee's Minor Leauge system the past 11 years. (Matt York/MLB Photos)
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MILWAUKEE -- A pair of prominent former Brewers will be at the helm of the franchise's top Minor League affiliate in 2009.

Former All-Star third baseman Don Money was elevated to manage Triple-A Nashville after skippering the Brewers' Double-A team for the past four seasons, and former starter Chris Bosio rejoined the organization as Nashville's pitching coach.

The Brewers announced their complete Minor League coaching staffs on Wednesday. Other key newcomers to the organization include Bob Miscik, who will replace Money as manager at Double-A Huntsville, one-time Brewers infielder Matt Erickson, who will join the staff at the Brewers' new Class A affiliate in Appleton, Wis., and new Minor League pitching coordinator Lee Tunnell.

Money is certainly familiar to Brewers fans. He played 11 of his 16 Major League seasons in Milwaukee, making four American League All-Star teams, and has managed in the system for the past 11 seasons.

Bosio was the Brewers' second-round Draft pick in 1982 and played in the Majors for Milwaukee from 1986-92 including a career-high 16 wins for the 92-win Brewers in '92. He was the pitching coach at Double-A Chattanooga (Reds) in 2008 after coaching at Lawrence University in Appleton, Wis. He also served as the assistant pitching coach at the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh from 2004-05. Bosio was Tampa Bay's big league pitching coach in '03.

At Nashville, Bosio replaces Stan Kyles, who was promoted to be Milwaukee's bullpen coach. Sandy Guerrero was promoted from Huntsville to Nashville to serve as hitting coach there. Trainer Jeff Paxson and strength and conditioning specialist Tom Reynolds will both return to Nashville next season.

At the other affiliates:

• Joining Miscik on the Huntsville coaching staff are pitching coach John Curtis and hitting coach Jim Lett, both promoted from Class A West Virginia. Dave Yeager will return for his fifth season as Huntsville's trainer.

• At Class A Brevard County, Mike Guerrero returns for his second season as manager. Pitching coach Fred Dabney, coach Corey Hart and trainer Tommy Craig also return.

• The Appleton-based Wisconsin Timber Rattlers, the Brewers' new Low Class A club in the Midwest League, will be managed by Jeff Isom, who was the skipper at Milwaukee's former Low Class A affiliate in Charleston, W.V. Chris Hook moves from Huntsville to the pitching-coach post at Wisconsin, and the hitting coach will be Erickson, an Appleton native who made his Major League debut for Milwaukee in 2004.

• Rene Gonzales will manage a second season with the rookie-level Helena Brewers and Ned Yost IV, the son of the former Brewers manager, will returns to the Helena staff after beginning his coaching career there last season. The pitching coach will be announced at a later date.

• Manager Tony Diggs and pitching coaches Steve Cline and Jose Nunez will return to the rookie-level Arizona Brewers. Kenny Dominguez will also join that staff as a coach.

Tunnell, the new Minor League pitching coordinator, replaces Jim Rooney, who moved to the Brewers' amateur scouting staff. Meanwhile, Charlie Greene (field coordinator and catching instructor), Mike Lum (hitting coordinator), Garth Iorg (roving infield instructor) and Ken Berry (roving outfield and baserunning instructor) all return in their current positions in Milwaukee's Minor League chain.

Adam McCalvy is a reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.

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