Rick Aponte

{{Short description|American baseball player and coach}}

Rick Aponte (born April 3, 1956, in El Seibo, Dominican Republic) is a former Major League Baseball bullpen coach for the Washington Nationals, who served from 2007 to 2008.{{cite news|url=http://voices.washingtonpost.com/nationalsjournal/2008/09/breaking_news_all_of_actas_ass.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121009011453/http://voices.washingtonpost.com/nationalsjournal/2008/09/breaking_news_all_of_actas_ass.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=October 9, 2012|title=Breaking News: All of Acta's Assistants Gone, Except St. Claire|work=The Washington Post|first=Adam|last=Kilgore|date=September 28, 2008|accessdate=December 20, 2010}} He is currently the pitching coach for the Tri-City ValleyCats.