1) Tim Cossins
Tim Cossins is the field coordinator and catching coach for the Baltimore Orioles and has been since 2019. However, from 2019 through 2021, he also functioned as Brandon Hyde’s bench coach.
Cossins, 51, and Hyde worked together in the Marlins and Cubs organizations as well. Cossins was a minor league manager for the Marlins and, later, the minor league catching coordinator from 2003 through 2012. He joined the Cubs replaced Hyde as the Cubs minor league field coordinator in 2013 since Hyde was promoted to be Joe Maddon’s bench coach. When Hyde left to become the Orioles manager in 2019, Cossins joined him as his de facto bench coach.
2) Fredi González
Fredi González is currently the bench coach for the Baltimore Orioles. He is entering his first season as the official bench coach but he was a “major league coach” for them since 2020.
González, 57, has plenty of independent ball, minor league, and major league managing experience. He managed in independent ball from 1990 through 1992 and in the minors for the Marlins from 1993 through 1998.
He was their MLB third base coach from 1999 through 2001. He joined the Braves organization in 2002 as their Triple-A manager before he became their MLB third base coach in 2003. He left to become the Marlins manager in 2007 and he was there through 2010.
In 2011, he replaced Bobby Cox as manager and was there through 2016. He rejoined the Marlins for a third stint in 2017 as their third base coach and was there from 2017 until he joined the Orioles.
The Tigers interviewed González for their managerial opening in the 2017-18 offseason before they hired Ron Gardenhire.