Steve Foster

Stephen Eugene Foster Jr.

• Bats Right, Throws Right
• Height 6' 0", Weight 180 lb.
• School Blinn College, University of Texas at Arlington
• High School DeSoto (TX) High School
• Debut August 22, 1991
• Final Game June 26, 1993
• Born August 16, 1966 in Dallas, TX USA

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Biographical Information

Pitcher Steve Foster was signed as a 12th round pick in the 1988 amateur draft by the Cincinnati Reds and scout Chuck LaMar. He rose through the Reds minor league system to make his major league debut in 1991. In his three major league seasons with the Reds, Foster pitched in 59 games, only one of them as a starter. He finished his playing career in 1994 with the Chattanooga Lookouts.

After his playing career ended, Foster was a Tampa Bay Devil Rays area scout in 1996. He spent the next two years as an assistant baseball coach with the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point Pointers. In 1999 and 2000, he returned to scouting for the Devil Rays before spending 2001-2002 as the University of Michigan Wolverines pitching coach. In addition, Foster managed the Wisconsin Woodchucks of the Northwoods League in 2002-2003.

The Florida Marlins hired Foster in 2005 as a pitching coach for the Greensboro Grasshoppers, a role he repeated in 2006. In 2007, the Marlins promoted Foster to the major league staff as the club's bullpen coach. He took over as pitching coach on September 24th before returning to his bullpen coaching position for the 2008 and 2009 seasons. In 2010, Foster undertook the same role for the Kansas City Royals, staying in the position until August 31, 2012. At that point, he took on a dual responsibility with the Royals organization. He served as the Royals Minor League Pitching Coordinator and as a Special Assistant to the General Manager through the completion of the 2014 season. During his time with Kansas City, Foster helped Moore and the Royals assemble a core that won the American League pennant in back-to-back seasons before taking home the 2015 World Series title.

The Colorado Rockies named Foster their pitching coach in 2015. Inheriting a Rockies staff that recorded the highest ERA in MLB in 2014, Foster helped the Rockies go from dead-last to 17th in total ERA in just three seasons. He also helped Colorado make back-to-back postseason appearances in 2017 and 2018 as the Rockies won 178 games over that two-year span.[1] These successes came in spite of the hostile pitching environment in Colorado. Foster remained the Rockies pitching coach through 2021. Foster moved to the Rockies front office in 2022 as Director of Pitching Operations where he remained through 2024.

Foster returned to coaching college pitchers when Texas Tech University hired him in June 2025. He was the pitching coach for the Red Raiders in 2026.

He also works as a pitching instructor at the Elite Baseball Academy which operates baseball clinics in the Midwest.