Chuck Hernandez, who began the season as...

Chuck Hernandez, who began the season as a roving minor league pitching instructor but spent most of the season as the Angels’ bullpen coach, is expected to be named the team’s pitching coach by the end of this week or early next week. Hernandez will replace Marcel Lachemann, who left the Angels to become pitching coach of the expansion Florida Marlins.

“We think he’s a good man,” Manager Buck Rodgers. “We’re getting pretty close and we want to get it all tied up.”