Bill Evers is final addition to Twins manager Rocco Baldelli's staff

New Twins manager Rocco Baldelli completed his coaching staff Wednesday by naming 64-year-old Bill Evers the team's major league coach.

Evers has been a major league coach, minor league coach, minor league manager and minor league field coordinator for the Cubs, Yankees and Rays over the past 30 seasons.

His duties with the Twins will include working with the catchers.

He has been Tampa Bay's minor league field coordinator since 2010 after being Joe Maddon's bench coach with the Rays from 2006-07 and a scout for the Rays during 2008-09. He managed Class AAA Durham from 1998-2005.

Evers had a 1,381-1,206 record (.534) as a minor league manager.

New Twins coaches for the 2019 season are third base coach Tony Diaz, first base coach Tommy Watkins, pitching coach Wes Johnson and assistant pitching coach Jeremy Hefner.

Holdovers from Paul Molitor's staff are bench coach Derek Shelton, hitting coach James Rowson and assistant hitting coach Rudy Hernandez.

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The Gophers' Max McHugh was named the Big Ten freshman of the week in men's swimming for the fourth time in eight weeks.

He set a meet record of 51.73 seconds in winning the 100-yard breaststroke in the Hawkeyes Invitational; his time also qualified him for the NCAA meet in Austin, Texas, in March.

McHugh, of Sturgeon Bay, Wis., also placed second in the 200-yard breaststroke (1:56.02) to help the Gophers men take second overall in the eight-team, three-day meet.

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