 From 2008 to 2012, Patterson served as the minor league pitching coordinator for the Athletics.He took over the same post with the Yankees from 2013 to 2015, and came back to Oakland in 2016 for his third stint in the organization as the head of the Athletics' minor league pitching program.Pitching development has been the backbone of the Athletics since the franchise moved to Oakland, while Patterson is one of the men who helped to build that program in the early 1990s.