The Washington Nationals announced the remainder of their Major League coaching staff on Tuesday. The announcement was made by Nationals President of Baseball Operations Paul Toboni and Manager Blake Butera. The complete list below joins Butera’s staff, which also includes Bench Coach Michael Johns and Pitching Coach Simon Mathews, who were announced in November.
Matt Borgschulte, 35, enters his fifth season as a coach at the Major League level and his first as Washington’s hitting coach. He spent the 2025 season as the hitting coach the Minnesota Twins and three seasons (2022-24) as the co-hitting coach for the Baltimore Orioles. Under his tutelage, Twins outfielder Byron Buxton (2025) and Orioles designated hitter Anthony Santander (2024) won their first American League Silver Slugger awards, and in 2024, Baltimore hitters ranked second in Major League Baseball in home runs (235) and third in slugging percentage (.435), extra-base hits (530) and total bases (2,424). Orioles infielder Gunnar Henderson was named the American League Rookie of the Year, and both he and catcher Adley Rutschman won American League Silver Slugger awards in 2023.
With the Twins organization, Borgschulte spent time as the hitting coach for Triple-A St. Paul (2021), Single-A Fort Myers (2019) and the Gulf Coast League Twins (2018) and was the hitting coach at Minnesota’s Alternate Training Site in 2020. He joined the coaching ranks in 2017 with Single-A Palm Beach in St. Louis’ system after coaching at Southwest Missouri State from 2015-16. A native of St. Louis, Borgschulte played two collegiate seasons at Western Kentucky University before transferring to Drury University (Mo.).
Andrew Aydt, 30, comes to Washington after spending the last seven years as a coach at Driveline Baseball, most recently in the role of assistant director of hitting since January of 2024. In that role, he managed 15 coaches and more than 600 players and oversaw their entire Major League Baseball and professional player operation. During his time at Driveline, Aydt worked with a roster of more than 50 Major League players, including Corbin Carroll, Jeremy Peña, Vinnie Pasquantino and Nolan Arenado as well as top prospects like Travis Bazzana.
A native of Wildwood, Mo., Aydt played baseball and graduated from McKendree University (Ill.) in 2018 with a bachelor's degree in economics and earned a master’s of business administration in 2019.
Shawn O’Malley, 37, spent the previous six seasons (2020-25) in the Seattle Mariners Minor League system and the last two with Triple-A Tacoma. He served as Double-A Arkansas’s hitting coach from 2022-23 and Single-A Everett’s hitting coach in 2021. O’Malley played 13 professional seasons, including parts of three Major League seasons with the Seattle Mariners (2015-16) and Los Angeles Angels (2014). A native of Richland, Wash., O’Malley was originally selected by Tampa Bay in the fifth round of the 2006 First-Year Player Draft out of Southridge High School (Wash.)
Tyler Smarslok, 33, joins the Nationals after one season (2025) as the Miami Marlins first base, infield defense and baserunning coach. Prior to joining the Marlins staff, Smarslok spent five seasons (2020-24) in the Minnesota Twins organization and also managed the Salt River Rafters to the Arizona Fall League championship in 2024. He served as Triple-A St. Paul’s defensive and infield coach from 2021-24 and was slated to be on the Gulf Coast League Twins staff in 2020.
A native of Jackson, N.J., Smarslok spent the 2019 season on the Seton Hall University coaching staff after stints at Heidelberg University (Ohio), Claremont-Mudd Scripps (Calif.) and Kean University (N.J.). He graduated from Kean University where he was a Rawlings Gold Glove winner and a four-year starter (2011-14) and made three trips to the NCAA Division III College World Series.
Dustin Glant, 44, joins the Nationals after spending the last four seasons (2022-25) as the pitching coach at the University of Indiana. Under his watch, the Hoosiers staff recorded the three highest strikeout seasons in school history (2024, 2023, 2022), and nine different pitchers were selected in the MLB First-Year Player Draft. Glant joined the Hoosiers after two years in the New York Yankees system, serving as the pitching coach of Triple-A Scranton in 2021. He was slated to be the pitching coach of Single-A Staten Island in 2020 prior to the cancellation of the Minor League season.
Prior to his time with the Yankees, Glant enjoyed two stints on the Ball State University coaching staff, serving as a volunteer assistant coach in 2013 and the program’s pitching coach from 2017-19. In 2019, Ball State set a then-NCAA record with 11.1 strikeouts per 9.0 innings, set a school record for strikeouts in a season and Drey Jameson – the 34th overall pick in the 2019 First-Year Player Draft - set school records for strikeouts (146) and strikeouts per 9.0 innings (14.3) en route to being named Mid-American Conference Pitcher of the Year.
A seventh-round pick in the 2003 Draft by the Arizona Diamondbacks out of Purdue University, Glant appeared in 264 games across six professional seasons in Arizona’s system. He advanced to Triple-A in 2007 and 2008 before eventually pitching for Schaumburg in the Northern League (2009-10), Navoja and Hermosillo in the Mexican League (2009-10) and Winnipeg in the American Association (2011).
Sean Doolittle, 39, returns to Washington’s staff after joining the coaching ranks in 2024 following an 11-year playing career. A two-time All-Star and 2019 World Series champion, Doolittle finished his career 26-24 with 112 saves, a 3.20 ERA and 522 strikeouts in 450.2 Major League innings for the Oakland Athletics (2012-17), Washington Nationals (2017-20, 2022-23), Cincinnati Reds (2021) and Seattle Mariners (2021).
Corey Ray, 31, comes to Washington after three seasons as a manager/coach in the Chicago Cubs Minor League system. He spent the previous two seasons (2024-25) as the manager of the Arizona Complex League Cubs as well as the organizations baserunning coordinator. He joined the coaching ranks in 2023 as the bench coach with Single-A Myrtle Beach.
The No. 5 overall pick in the 2016 First-Year Player Draft by the Milwaukee Brewers out of the University of Louisville, Ray played seven professional seasons in Milwaukee’s system. He participated in the 2017 SiriusXM All-Star Futures Game and eventually made his Major League debut in 2021, appearing in one game for the Brewers.
Victor Estevez, 37, was a two-time Manager of the Year in the Midwest League (2024) and Carolina League (2023) during his 13 years in the Milwaukee Brewers system prior to joining Washington’s staff. He brings 10 years of Minor League managerial experience, most recently as the skipper of the Single-A Wisconsin Timber Rattlers (2024-25). A veteran of more than 800 Minor League games, Estevez boasts a 435-428 (.504) career managerial record.
Estevez spent two seasons (2022-23) managing Single-A Carolina after managing the Dominican Summer League Brewers for six seasons (2016-21). He spent two seasons (2021-22) as the DSL field coordinator after starting his coaching career as an infield coach with the DSL Brewers from 2013-15. Estevez also spent time in the Dominican Winter League as the bench coach for Cibao (2024-25) and the manager of Leones del Escogido (2023-24) and managed Moteria in the Colombian Professional Baseball League in 2021-22.
A former infielder, Estevez, played four seasons (2007-10) in the Arizona Diamondbacks system. He earned his bachelor's degree in business administration from Universidad del Caribe in 2020.
Bobby Wilson, 41, joins the Nationals after spending the last five seasons (2021-25) on the Texas Rangers coaching staff as their catching coordinator. During his time with the Rangers, he tutored eventual American League Gold Glove Award winning catchers Jonah Heim (2023) and Jose Trevino (2022). Under his watch, Rangers catchers combined to rank third in Major League Baseball in catcher framing runs (64), fourth in fielding run value (48) and ninth in defensive runs saved (18), according to MLB Statcast, since 2021.
Following a 17-year professional career that included parts of 10 Major League seasons, Wilson began his coaching career in 2020 and was set to manage Double-A Frisco but transitioned into a coaching role at the Club’s Alternate Training Site.
Grant Anders, 29, comes to Washington after two seasons (2024-25) as the Baltimore Orioles Major League development coach and six seasons (2020-25) total in the Orioles organization. He served as Baltimore’s Major League player development analyst from 2022-23 after joining the organization in 2020 as the development coach for Double-A Bowie in 2019. He gained experience as a baseball operations trainee with the Cincinnati Reds in 2019 and as a minor league video intern in Kansas City’s organization from 2017-18.
A 2018 graduate of Radford University (Va.) and native of Wytheville, Va., Anders was the director of player development for Radford’s baseball team from 2015-18. He received his masters of sports law and business from Arizona State University in 2019.