Servais Confident With Coaching Staff

While most are watching the World Series and most are looking for a different outcome, given the nature of the teams playing, it’ll be an interesting series.

Living on Canada’s west coast as well as having the Single A farm team for the Blue Jays, the Vancouver Canadians, we still allow time to keep up to date with the Mariners organization.

Missing the post-season is one thing and most might put the blame on the Coaching staff, but the Mariners have a different opinion to how things played out.

Let’s not forget that they scarcely missed the postseason, which saw them in a race at season’s end.

The club’s Manager Scott Servais (48) announced mentioned that he has confidence in what the Coaching staff brought to the club and in light of this, key figures are returning.

Returning for another season are Tim Bogar (bench coach), Manny Acta (third base coach), Mike Hampton (bullpen coach, Casey Candaele (first base coach), Edgar Martinez (hitting coach) as well as Mel Stottlemyre who is the clubs pitching coach.

Each club has a team that operates in the farm system and Seattle is fortunate to have a Triple-A franchise located in Tacoma, a short jaunt up the road.

Making the step down the I-5 see’s Scott Brosius (pronounced Bro-Shus) who comes on board as an Assistant coach and served as the hitting coach for Tacoma this past season.

Scott comes from Hillsboro and has 11 years in the majors and played for Oakland beginning in 1991 playing 36 games with 68 AB, managing 9 runs on 16 hits averaging .235 on the season.

He has a career average of .257 with 531 RBI’s, as well as 141 HR, so adding him to the roster is a welcome addition for the Mariners.

Martinez originally from New York was a designated hitter and his record speaks for itself with his career starting with the Mariners in 1987, playing 13 games while managing only 43 AB.

Mel Stottlemyre’s career speaks for itself, giving the fact he played 11 seasons in MLB for the Yankees and coached for 23 years.

He is also a five-time MLB All-Star and a five-time World Series Champion as a Coach.

This past spring Scott Servais took his squad to Peoria for his first camp starting drills with 28 pitchers and 7 catchers but the season never played out as he had planed, but next season promises to be different.

Most in the Pacific Northwest can’t wait for the first pitch for the 2017 MLB season.