| Coaching
Staff |
Scott Pickler
Head
Coach
Cypress Community College, Santa Ana, CA
|
|
Coach
Pickler is returning for his 10th season with the Y-D Red Sox.
He is one of the Nation's top junior college coaches. Scott is
nationally recognized as a developer of young ball players at
Cypress College where he has been the head coach for 22 years.
He has the prestigious distinction of being named National Coach
of the Year for California Junior Colleges four times! He has
a winning percentage of .679 (706-330-4).
"Pick" has won the Cape Cod Baseball
League Championship in 2006 and 2004, and has been in the playoffs
the last three of four years. Over 200 of his student athletes
have received scholarships to four year colleges and 80 plus players
have been selected in the Major League Draft.
Coach Pickler and his wife Sharon have two
children; Jeff is with the Arizona Diamondbacks Organization,
and a daughter, Kari who works for the Fox Network
|
Chris
Podeszwa
1st
Asst Coach
UCONN |
|
“Dez” is returning as part of the coaching
staff at Y-D for the 12th season. Chris, a 1993 graduate of the
University of Connecticut, was named assistant baseball coach at
UCONN, his alma mater in 2003. After graduating from the University
of Connecticut in 1993, he served as an envoy coach for Major League
Baseball International in New York and Europe. His responsibilities
included preparing the German Junior National Team for the European
Championships and organizing and developing coordinated clinics
for youth players and coaches.
In 1995 Chris moved to Sweden to become the
head coach of the Skelleftea Bears Baseball Club in Skelleftea Sweden.
His stay in Scandinavia was highlighted by his U-19 capturing the
Swedish National Championship.
Chris resides in his native Waterford, Conn.,
with his wife Isabella and three children, Sophia, Connor and Emilia.
|
Larry Mahoney
Bull pen coach |
|
Larry Mahoney is returning for his 4th season with
Y-D. Larry was a Championship player on the 2003 Cypress College
Charger squad, where he batted a .436 during the championship season.
After Cypress, Mahoney went to the University of South Dakota and
then Huron University. He is now an assistant baseball coach at
Cypress College. |
Jerry Sullivan
|
 |
|
|
