Coaching Staff

Greg Brodzinski returns for his third season as BlueClaws manager. He enters 2025 with a 147-116 (.559) record in two seasons in charge of the BlueClaws. He led the BlueClaws to the postseason in 2023 as the South Atlantic League Northern Division Second Half Champions, their first playoff appearance since 2018. Brodzinski has led the BlueClaws to a winning record in all four halves he has been the team’s manager, one of only two BlueClaws managers who has accomplished that feat, joining 2007-08 manager Steve Roadcap.

Prior to joining the BlueClaws in 2023, Brodzinski was a coach with Triple-A Lehigh Valley and spent two years on the Phillies major league staff as a bullpen catcher and catching coach. He was originally selected by the Phillies in the 18^th round of the 2015 draft. He played high school baseball at Bishop Eustace Prep in Pennsauken, New Jersey.

Buchter comes to the BlueClaws from Triple-A Lehigh Valley, where he was a pitching coach for the last two seasons. He began his coaching career in the Mariners organization in 2022. Buchter pitched parts of seven seasons in the majors with the Braves, Padres, Royals, Athletics, Angels, and Diamondbacks and had a 3.16 ERA over 285 major league games. He went to Highland Regional High School in Blackwood, New Jersey.

Snyder joins the Phillies organization this year after working in the Marlins system the previous five years. He spent 2024 as the assistant hitting coordinator. In 2023, was the Double-A hitting coach in Pensacola, and was the High-A hitting coach in Beloit in 2021 and 2022. In 2022, he was honored as the organization’s “Staff Member of the Year.” He was a 10th round pick in 2012 by the Yankees and played in both the Yankees and Marlins organizations, reaching as high as Triple-A. He is a native of Centerville, Virginia.

Muñoz returns to the BlueClaws for a second season. He joined the Phillies organization in 2017 as a coach with the Dominican Summer League Phillies. Muñoz spent time playing in managing for both Zulia in the Venezuelan Winter League and Modena and Parma in the in the Italian Baseball League. He played six seasons in the Angels system, reaching as high as Triple-A Vancouver.

Iser joins the BlueClaws for his first season as a coach. A former catcher, he played for the BlueClaws in 2021 and 2022, hitting a combined seven home runs in 100 games. Born in Jamaica, he grew up in Miami and played collegiately at Dallas Baptist. He was a 23rd round pick in the 2019 draft and played in the organization from 2019 through 2023. Iser is the second former BlueClaws player to serve as a coach, after Matt Hockenberry, a 2014-15 BlueClaw, who was the pitching coach in 2019 and 2021.

Walukiewicz joins the BlueClaws as the athletic trainer. This is his second year in the organization after serving as a Medical Operations Liaison in 2024. Prior to joining the Phillies, he was a minor league athletic trainer in the Tampa Bay Rays organization from 2017-22 and the Oakland Athletics organization from 2015-17. Walukiewicz is a native of Denville, New Jersey.

Kleppan is in his first season with the BlueClaws. He was an athletic trainer with the FCL Phillies in 2024.

Miranda joins the BlueClaws as the Strength & Conditioning coach after serving in the same role for Clearwater each of the last two seasons. Prior to joining the Phillies, he spent one year in the Marlins organization and two in the Reds organization. He has also worked in the Rockies and Red Sox organizations. Miranda graduated from Maryville College (TN) and earned his master’s degree in exercise science from George Washington University (DC). He is a certified strength and conditioning specialist (CSCS) and registered strength and conditioning coach (RCSS), among other certifications.

Bourke returns to the BlueClaws for her second season in ShoreTown and in the Phillies organization. She became the first female clubhouse manager in Minor League Baseball history when she started with Jersey Shore in 2024. An Australia native, she holds a similar role with the Adelaide Giants in the Australian Baseball League.