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MLB All-Star coaching staffs named

National League All-Star manager Bruce Bochy of the San Francisco Giants and American League All-Star skipper Ned Yost of the Kansas City Royals announced on Thursday the managers who will serve as their coaches at the 86th All-Star Game.

One of Bochy's decisions will please the hometown crowd in Cincinnati, host of the contest on July 14, as Bryan Price of the Reds was named to the NL staff, along with Don Mattingly of the Los Angeles Dodgers.

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Price will be part of an All-Star coaching staff for the first time, while Mattingly previously served on Joe Torre's 2004 AL coaching staff while with the New York Yankees. Mattingly was also a six-time All-Star as a player in New York.

Giants assistant coach Shawon Dunston, bullpen coach Mark Gardner, first base coach Bill Hayes, third base coach Roberto Kelly, batting coach Hensley Meulens, pitching coach Dave Righetti and bench coach Ron Wotus also will join the NL staff at Great American Ball Park.

Paul Lessard, head athletic trainer of the Reds, and Scott Gehret, assistant athletic trainer of the Colorado Rockies, will tend to the NL All-Stars.

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Yost selected Houston's A.J. Hinch and Seattle's Lloyd McClendon as his coaches. Hinch, in his first season with the Astros, will make his All-Star coaching debut. McClendon was part of Dusty Baker's NL staff in 2003.

In addition, the coaches from the Royals -- pitching coach Dave Eiland, catching coach Pedro Grifol, bullpen coach Doug Henry, third base coach Mike Jirschele, first base coach Rusty Kuntz, hitting coach Dale Sveum and bench coach Don Wakamatsu -- will work with the AL stars.

Adam Nevala, head athletic trainer of the Los Angeles Angels, and Paul Harker, assistant athletic trainer of the Tampa Bay Rays, will round out the AL staff.

[SportsNetwork.com]

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