Tucson High grad a bullpen coach for AL Champion Astros

If you watch closely during the World Series broadcast, you’ll see Tucson High grad Craig Bjornson working in the Houston Astros bullpen. He is in his fourth season as the club’s bullpen coach after a career in which he spent 15 years as a minor-league coach and pitcher. After helping THS win the 1987 state championship, Bjornson pitched at Nicholls State. “I think Craig Bjornson could be a big-league pitching coach and yet he got no higher than Class A or whatever in his (playing) career,” Astros pitching coach Brent Strom, a Tucson resident, said at the World Series. “There’s a number of people, I think — you know, the initial thing of saying, ‘Wow, he pitched in the big leagues, he must know what he’s talking about,’ that wears off after a while. CB can coach anywhere.”