KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP)—Royals manager Ned Yost is shaking up his coaching staff after a season that was long on development and short on results.

Pitching coach Bob McClure and bench coach John Gibbons will not return next season, Yost said Thursday. Hitting coach Kevin Seitzer, first base coach Doug Sisson, third base coach Eddie Rodriguez and bullpen coach Steve Foster will be back.

“In terms of our bench coach, we’ve got young catchers, young Latin catchers, so we’re going to make an adjustment there,” Yost said. “In terms of our pitching, we just threw too many balls. We walked too many hitters. We were behind in the count far too much, which resulted in more hits than we would like to see.”

Yost said there are internal candidates for his bench coach but said the team is likely to go outside the organization to replace McClure.  McClure had been with the Royals since the 2006 season, lasting through the managerial tenures of Buddy Bell, Trey Hillman and Yost. But the starting pitching was a clear area of weakness this season, particularly when it came to pitch count, and the front office decided it was important to give the staff a “new voice.”