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Rene Lachemann returns to the A's coaching staff for the third consecutive season. After serving as the A's bench coach in 2005,
Lachemann moved to first base in 2006. This is Lachemann's second stint with the A's as he was a member of Tony LaRussa's coaching
staff from 1987-92, spending two seasons as the first base coach and four years at third base.
Lachemann's career in professional baseball spans 42 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 stands at 428-559 (.434). He has been on coaching
staffs on teams that have reached postseason play five times (1986 with Boston; 1988-90; 92 with Oakland), including four World
Series appearances. He was also a member of the American Leagues coaching staff for the 1987 and 1990 All-Star Games.
Prior to joining the A's, Lachemann served as the bench coach for the Seattle Mariners (2003-04) and Chicago Cubs (2000-02) and
third base coach in St. Louis (1997-99), where he was reunited with Tony LaRussa.
Lachemann began his managerial career in 1973, spending five seasons in Oakland's Minor League system. He also gained managerial
experience during winter ball, managing in Puerto Rico, Venezuela and Mexico during the 1976-81 off-seasons. In 1978, he earned
manager of the year honors at Mayaguez after leading the Puerto Rican team to the Caribbean World Series championship.
A former catcher, Lachemann was signed by the Kansas City Athletics in 1964 and made his Major League debut with the As in 1965,
spending the entire season in Kansas City. His first Major League hit was a pinch hit home run off Chicago's Gary Peters. He also appeared
briefly in the Majors with the Athletics in both 1966 and 1968. In 118 big league contests, he hit .210 with nine home runs and 33 RBI.
Lachemann's brothers, Marcel and Bill, also have Major League coaching experience. Marcel served as Rene's pitching coach with
the Florida Marlins in 1993 and when Marcel left the Marlins to manage the California Angels in May of 1994, it marked the second time in big league history two brothers were managing at the same time (1879 - Boston's Harry Wright and Providence's George Wright).
A native of Los Angeles, Lachemann attended Dorsey High School and the University of Southern California. He resides in Scottsdale,
Ariz., with his wife, Lauri and has two sons, Jim and Britt, and three grandchildren.
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