With the winter meetings complete, the Nationals announced today their lineup for the 2011 managers and coaches for their affiliates:
SYRACUSE
Manager – Randy Knorr (promoted from Harrisburg)
Pitching Coach – Greg Booker (returning)
Hitting Coach – Jerry Browne (returning)
HARRISBURG
Manager – Tony Beasley (Pittsburgh Pirates 3rd base coach in ’10)
Pitching Coach – Randy Tomlin (returning)
Hitting Coach – Troy Gingrich (returning)
POTOMAC
Manager – Matt LeCroy (Promoted from Hagerstown)
Pitching Coach – Paul Menhart (returning)
Hitting Coach – Mark Harris (new hire)
HAGERSTOWN
Manager – Brian Daubach (Managed Pittsfield/Nashua of Can-Am League 2009-2010)
Pitching Coach – Chris Michalak (returning)
Hitting Coach – Marlon Anderson (new hire)
AUBURN
Manager – Gary Cathcart (Managed Potomac in ’10)
Pitching Coach – Franklin Bravo (returning)
Hitting Coach – Luis Ordaz (new hire)
GCL NATIONALS
Manager – Bobby Williams (returning)
Pitching Coach – Michael Tejera
Hitting Coach – Sergio Mendez (Never gonna let you go, I’m gonna hold you in my… oh, wait different guy – returning)
Coach – John Poppert (returning)
DSL Nationals
Manager – Sandy Martinez
Pitching Coach – Pablo Frias
Hitting Coach – Amaury Garcia
Coach – Eddy de los Antos
For those interested in the coordinators, MASN has them listed here.
The only surprise to me was that there was no mention of Trent Jewett, who had said three weeks ago that he was staying with the organization. His name has not yet turned up in any Google News searches, which would be my first guess: That he’d been hired by another organization to manage elsewhere. I know that he rubs some folks the wrong way, but his no-nonsense, old-school approach does get results.
Otherwise, most of this was not terribly new news. The hirings of Daubauch and promotions of LeCroy and Knorr were discussed last month, leaving the new Harrisburg manager as the only real unknown. It appears that the DSL staff is completely new, but last year’s announcement did not mention it, which may explain why Brian did not report on it at NFA.