PITTSBURGH -- Brent Strom was hired Thursday as the Pittsburgh Pirates' assistant pitching coach.
The 76-year-old will work with Oscar Marin, the team's pitching coach since 2020.
A big league pitcher from 1972-77, Strom was pitching coach of Houston (1996 and 2014-21), Kansas City (2000-01) and Arizona (2022-24). He reached the World Series with the 2017, '19 and '21 Astros and the 2023 Diamondbacks.