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Joe Girardi made it offical today as to who will be his coaching staff for the 2008 season. Hitting coach Kevin Long and first-base coach Tony Pena will return, while Dave Eiland has been promoted to pitching coach. Rob Thomson becomes the new bench coach, and both third-base coach Bobby Meacham and bullpen coach Mike Harkey — both members of Girardi’s 2006 Marlins’ coaching staff — have joined New York.

“Now that the coaching staff is put together, we can all go to work,” Girardi said. “We’ve already started working on Spring Training and how we’ll approach it. It’s obviously a lot better when you know everyone that you’re going to be working with.”

I think the Dave Eiland move was expected … beause he has worked with the young pitching staff that will be the Yankees rotation this coming year (Chamberlain, Hughes, Kennedy).

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