Source: Williams gets offer from D-backs
Former Nats manager would replace Green as 3B coach; Alston receives offer for BP coach
PHOENIX -- The D-backs have made offers to Matt Williams and Garvin Alston to join their coaching staff, according to a baseball source.
The team has not confirmed the offers, which would make Williams the third-base coach and Alston the bullpen coach.
It would be a homecoming for Williams, who was on the D-backs' coaching staff from 2010-13 before serving as the Nationals' manager in 2014-15. He was dismissed following the 2015 season.
Alston, a 10th-round pick by the Rockies in the 1992 Draft, appeared in six games for Colorado in 1996.
Since retiring from playing in 2003, Alston has been with the A's organization, where he served as a Minor League coach and also as the team's rehab coordinator. Last season, he was promoted to Minor League roving pitching instructor for Oakland.
Williams would replace Andy Green, who was recently hired to manage the Padres, while Alston would take the place of Mel Stottlemyre Jr., who left last month to become the Mariners' pitching coach.