Marcel Ernest Lachemann (born June 13, 1941) is an American

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executive and a former player,

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and pitching coach in

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(MLB). As a player, he was a

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for the Oakland Athletics.

Career

After a three-year stint (

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– 71) in the MLB, he became the pitching coach for the California Angels in

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. Lachemann stayed with the Angels until the

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season, when he was named pitching coach of the newly formed

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by his younger brother, manager Rene. His elder brother,

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, is also a longtime baseball coach and manager who served as Marcel's bullpen coach with the Angels. In

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, he replaced

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as manager of the Angels. In 1995, the Angels improved markedly and at one point were 11 games ahead of the

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in August, but suffered a historic collapse and lost a one-game playoff at the end of the season. The Angels never recovered their winning ways, and in August, 1996, Lachemann resigned as manager; it was the closest he ever came to reaching the playoffs as a manager. He later returned to Anaheim as the

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' pitching coach under Terry Collins from 1997 to 1998. In the early 2000s he was the Colorado Rockies pitching instructor, and also served in the Rockies' front office as assistant to general manager Dan O'Dowd from 2003 to 2011. Lachemann served as pitching coach for Team USA during the 2006 World Baseball Classic and the 2008 Beijing Olympics and bullpen coach for the

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