COACHING CAREER:
Rene Lachemann begins his first season on the Rockies Major League staff...Lachemann
spent the previous five seasons as the Hitting Coach at Triple-A Colorado Springs after spending the previous three seasons as a Major League coach for the Oakland A's...the 67-year-old served as the A's bench coach in 2005, the first base
coach in 2006 and spent the 2007 season as the club's third base coach...Lachemann's career in professional baseball
spans over 46 years and includes Major League managerial stints in Seattle (1981-83), Milwaukee (1984) and Florida (1993-
96)...his career record as a Major League manager is 428-559 (.434)...he has been on coaching staffs of teams that have
reached postseason play five times (1986 with Boston; 1988-90 with Oakland), including four World Series appearances...he was also a member of the American League's coaching staff for the 1987 and 1990 All-Star Games...Lachemann
has also served as a bench coach for Seattle (2003-04) and Chicago-NL (2000-02) and third base coach in St. Louis (1997-
99), where he was reunited with Tony LaRussa...he began his managerial career in 1973, spending five seasons in
Oakland's minor league chain...in 1978, he earned manager of the year honors at Mayaguez after leading the Puerto Rican
team to the Caribbean World Series championship.
