David Howell (coach)

David Howell

• School University of Minnesota
• High School Dassel-Cokato High School

Biographical Information

David Howell completed his baseball playing career at Dassel-Cokato High School in 2016. He attended the University of Minnesota and completed his degree program in Management Information Systems in just two and one-half years, graduating in December of 2018. Having a passion for baseball, he applied for numerous baseball-related jobs but initially had no success. That changed in 2019 as his experimenting with sabermetrics brought him to the attention of the baseball world.

Howell worked as a R&D Intern for Driveline Baseball in the summer of 2019 before spending the fall term at Louisiana State University in Shreveport. In Shreveport he worked with head coach Brent Lavallee to incorporate metrics into their baseball training program. The Toronto Blue Jays hired both men to work in their minor league system for 2020.

Howell was scheduled to work as the development coach for the Buffalo Bisons before COVID-19 forced the 2020 minor league season to be cancelled. In 2023, he was promoted to the coaching staff of the parent Blue Jays as one of two assistant pitching coaches working with Pete Walker: he was named in charge of pitching strategy while former major leaguer Jeff Ware was given charge of the bullpen.

Related Sites

• An incredible Journey to ‘The Show’: David Howell joins Toronto Blue Jays Organization as a Pitching Coach