DENVER - The Colorado Rockies announced today that they have hired Ethan Katz as the club’s Major League pitching coach.
Katz joins the Rockies from the Houston Astros where he spent the 2026 season as the assistant pitching coach after spending five years with the Chicago White Sox (2021-25) as the club’s pitching coach. He began his professional coaching career in 2013 with the Angels organization as a pitching coach to their Rookie Level club in Arizona before moving up to serve as pitching coach for Single-A Burlington from 2014-15. In 2016, he joined the Mariners organization as a pitching coach for High-A Bakersfield then spent the following two seasons with the Double-A Arkansas club (2017-18). He joined the Giants organization in 2019 as their assistant pitching coordinator before getting his first Major League position with the club as an assistant pitching coach for the 2020 season. The Los Angeles, Calif., native pitched professionally for five seasons (2005-09). He was drafted out of Sacramento State University in the 26th round of the 2005 Draft by the Colorado Rockies and spent four seasons in the Rockies Minor League system before finishing his playing career with Victoria in Canada’s Independent Golden Baseball League (2009).