Coaching
After his playing career, Foster worked as a scout with the Tampa Bay Rays in 1996. He spent two years at the University of Michigan coaching a baseball camp for college students before returning to the Rays as a scout in 1999 & 2000. In 2001, he begain managing the Wisconsin Woodchucks of the Northwoods Collegiate Summer Baseball League. Following the 2003 season, he resigned to become youth pastor at Highland Community Church in Wausau, Wisconsin.
Foster returned to baseball in 2005 as pitching coach for the Florida Marlins' Class A South Atlantic League affiliate, the Greensboro Grasshoppers. After two seasons as a minor league coach, Foster became bullpen coach for the Florida Marlins from 2007 to 2009, moving briefly into the pitching coach job toward the end of the 2007 season. On October 9, 2009, Foster declined the team's contract offer for the 2010 season. Shortly afterwards, he joined the Kansas City Royals organization. The Royals bullpen, ranked second to last in the majors in 2009 with a 5.02 ERA, showed modest improvement each season since Foster grabbed the reigns (4.49 ERA in 2010, 3.75 in 2011).
| Preceded by Mike Harkey |
Florida Marlins Bullpen Coach 2007-2009 |
Succeeded by Reid Cornelius |
| Preceded by John Mizerock |
Kansas City Royals Bullpen Coach 2010-Present |
Succeeded by Incumbent |
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