Herm Starrette

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Herman Paul Starrette (born November 20, 1938, at Statesville, North Carolina) is a retired relief pitcher, pitching and bullpen coach, and farm system official in Major League Baseball. Starrette attended Lenoir Rhyne College in Hickory, North Carolina. During his playing days, he threw and batted right-handed, stood 6'1" (185 cm) tall, and weighed 185 pounds (84 kg).

Starrette played his nine-year (1958-66) pitching career in the Baltimore Orioles organization, and spent parts of three seasons (1963-65) at the major league level. Appearing in 27 games, he pitched in 46 innings and split two decisions with an earned run average of 2.54.

His coaching career began with the Orioles' AAA farm club, the Rochester Red Wings, in 1967, and the following season he succeeded George Bamberger as Baltimore's roving minor league pitching instructor. The Orioles' system of the time was celebrated for developing young pitching, and after six seasons in that job, Starrette became a major league pitching coach for the 1974 Atlanta Braves. He would spend the next 28 years as a pitching coach, bullpen coach, minor league instructor, coordinator of instruction, and farm system director with the Braves, Orioles, San Francisco Giants, Philadelphia Phillies, Milwaukee Brewers, Chicago Cubs, Montreal Expos and Boston Red Sox.

Starrette was a trusted associate of Dan Duquette, working with him in Milwaukee, Montreal and Boston as a farm system official and minor and major league coach. After Duquette's ouster as general manager in Boston in February 2002, Starrette retired.