The Padres and pitching coach Ruben Niebla agreed on a new contract Friday.

Terms of the multi-year deal were not immediately known. The contract had been expected to be completed for some time, and Niebla took part in organizational meetings that began Wednesday.

Niebla, a 52-year-old Calexico native, took over as Padres pitching coach in 2022 and has overseen the modernization of the team’s pitching program. In his tenure, the Padres have enhanced their use of certain technologies, including biometric analysis of pitchers’ deliveries.

On the field, the Padres have excelled while frequently turning over their pitching staff.

They are the only MLB team to have a different pitcher save at least 28 games in each of the past three seasons. The Padres got 930⅓ innings from pitchers with an ERA under 4.00 in 2023, but 728⅓ of those innings were gone by the start of ’24. The Padres still finished with a 3.86 ERA, just 0.13 points off the previous year.

The Padres are one of two MLB teams to have had 11 different pitchers make at least 20 starts in at least one of the past three seasons. And where Padres starters had a 3.80 ERA, the other team (the Royals) ranked 22nd with a 4.43 ERA.

The team has not announced Niebla’s contract, but they are expected to do so once they finalize deals with the rest of the staff. His deal comes the same week as the Padres and manager Mike Shildt agreed to a two-year contract extension through the 2027 season. Shildt, who was originally under contract through the 2025 season, also receives a significant raise.