Tigers To Hire Martín Maldonado As Quality Control Coach

By Connor Byrne | at October 16, 2026 2:49pm CDT Former major league catcher Martín Maldonado has lined up his next job in baseball. Maldonado will serve as the Tigers’ quality control coach, Chandler Rome and Cody Stavenhagen of The Athletic report. This will reunite Maldonado with Tigers manager A.J. Hinch and former teammate Framber Valdez. Maldonado played for the Hinch-led Astros for parts of the 2018 and ’19 seasons, and he was with Valdez in Houston through 2023. As Rome and Stavenhagen note, Valdez has thrown more innings to Maldonado than any other backstop. Maldonado caught the left-hander for...