page_title: Mickey Callaway
section_title: Coaching career
hierarchical_section_title: Mickey Callaway / Coaching career
caption_attribution_description: English: Mickey Callaway with the Lake County Captains in 2010
context_page_description: Michael Christopher Callaway is an American professional baseball coach and former pitcher. He is the pitching coach for the Los Angeles Angels of Major League Baseball. He played in MLB for the Tampa Bay Devil Rays, Anaheim Angels, and Texas Rangers and in the KBO League for the Hyundai Unicorns. He was the manager of the New York Mets from 2018 through 2019.
context_section_description: In 2008, Callaway signed with the Laredo Broncos of independent United League Baseball as a player-pitching coach. It would be his last season as a player.
  Callaway joined the Cleveland Indians organization in 2010 as the pitching coach for the minor league Lake County Captains, champions of the Midwest League. In 2011, he was the pitching coach for the Carolina League runner-up Kinston Indians.
  Callaway became the pitching coach for the Cleveland Indians prior to the 2013 season. In the 2016 World Series, the Indians were defeated by the Cubs in 7 games. Indians manager Terry Francona said Callaway was the reason they went to the World Series. The Indians produced a Cy Young Award winner in 2014 in Corey Kluber.  In 2017, the Indians won an AL-best 102 games, but were defeated by the New York Yankees in the American League Division Series.  The Indians led the major leagues in both ERA (3.30) and in pitching strikeouts (1,614).  It was the fourth consecutive season they led the American League in strikeouts. The club led MLB in curveball usage in Callaway's time as pitching coach.
  Callaway was hired by the Los Angeles Angels to be their pitching coach prior to the 2020 season.
caption: Callaway with the Lake County Captains in 2010
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