Duke pitching coach Pete Maki to be Twins minor league pitching coordinator

Maki replaces Eric Rasmussen, who was fired in September after 27 years with the organization.

December 6, 2017 at 4:49PM
(The Minnesota Star Tribune)

Pete Maki will be the Twins' new minor league pitching coordinator, according to a Major League Baseball source.

(The Minnesota Star Tribune)

Maki has been the pitching coach at Duke since July 2015. Before that, he was pitching coach at Columbia. Maki is a 2004 graduate of Franklin and Marshall in Lancaster, Pa., where he was a relief pitcher.

Maki replaces Eric Rasmussen, who worked for the Twins for 27 seasons before his September firing. Rasmussen was the Twins minor league pitching coordinator for nine seasons and 18 seasons working with affiliates. He was with the major league team as pitching coach for six weeks in 2016 following Neil Allen's suspension following a drunken-driving arrest.

(Duke University photo)

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La Velle E. Neal III is a sports columnist for the Star Tribune who previously covered the Twins for more than 20 years.

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