Two men with deep ties to Lancaster Barnstormers manager Tom Herr have been hired to join him on the team's 2010 coaching staff.

Danny Cox, a teammate of Herr on two National League championship St. Louis Cardinals teams in the 1980's, will serve as the Lancaster pitching coach during the upcoming season while former catcher Lance Burkhart, one of the most popular players in franchise history, will return to the Barnstormers as the hitting coach.

Cox, 50, spent 11 seasons in the majors, the first six in St. Louis. The right-hander, winner of 74 games overall, put together his most notable season in 1985, posting an 18-9 record and career-low 2.88 ERA for the Cardinals during the regular season. He also pitched the Cardinals to victory in the third game of the 1985 NLCS, the first of four straight St. Louis wins over the Los Angeles Dodgers that overcame a 2-0 deficit in the series.

He would later pitch for Philadelphia, Pittsburgh and Toronto, finally winning a World Series ring with the 1993 Blue Jays.

Cox has served as the manager of the Frontier League's Gateway Grizzlies (Sauget, Ill.) from 2003-2006, where he played an integral role in the conversion of Scott Patterson to the bullpen in the middle of the 2005 season. Patterson returned to Lancaster that year as a dominant closer and eventually worked his way to the majors with the Yankees and San Diego. Cox also served as a pitching coach in Springfield, Ill. last summer.

Burkhart, 35, joined the Barnstormers in 2005 after spending time in the Montreal, Milwaukee, Texas and Baltimore minor league systems.

The Lancaster catcher in the club's first four season openers, Burkhart still stands as the club's career regular-season home run leader with 61.