{"id":3194,"date":"2015-10-22T14:14:45","date_gmt":"2015-10-22T14:14:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/northwoodsleague.com\/la-crosse-loggers\/?p=3194"},"modified":"2015-10-22T14:14:45","modified_gmt":"2015-10-22T14:14:45","slug":"former-loggers-skipper-named-farm-director-for-seattle-mariners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/northwoodsleague.com\/la-crosse-loggers\/2015\/10\/22\/former-loggers-skipper-named-farm-director-for-seattle-mariners\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Loggers Skipper Named Farm Director for Seattle Mariners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\tSEATTLE, WA &#8211; Seattle Mariners newly appointed general manager Jerry Dipoto announced his first major hiring yesterday (Sept. 21) and it came in the form a new farm director when he announced the hiring of former Loggers field manager Andy McKay to oversee the Mariners player development program.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tMcKay had&nbsp;served as the Peak Performance Coordinator for the Colorado Rockies since late 2012, shortly after his five-year run as the Loggers skipper came to an end.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe Sacramento, Calif. native led the Loggers from 2008-2012 culminating his run with a Northwoods League Championship in 2012. &nbsp;<span style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size: 14px;line-height: 20px\">The Loggers won more games than any other team in summer collegiate baseball&nbsp;during the&nbsp;five seasons under McKay&rsquo;s guidance, posting a record of 213-142 (.600) during that span (2008-20012, including post-season). La Crosse made two post-season appearances, advancing to the Championship both times (2009 &amp; 2012), and never won less than 38 games in a season. He ended his Logger career sixth all-time in victories and fourth all-time in winning percentage in the NWL and is the Loggers all-time winningest manager. 45 former Loggers were also drafted during McKay&rsquo;s tenure, including current big league pitcher Chris Sale (White Sox).<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size: 14px;line-height: 20px\">Read the entire article about the Mariners hiring of McKay <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seattletimes.com\/sports\/mariners\/mariners-name-andy-mckay-director-of-player-development\/#\">HERE<\/a> from the Seattle Times.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SEATTLE, WA &#8211; Seattle Mariners newly appointed general manager Jerry Dipoto announced his first major hiring yesterday (Sept. 21) and  [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":3199,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archives","category-team-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.5 (Yoast SEO v26.5) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Former Loggers Skipper Named Farm Director for Seattle Mariners - La Crosse Loggers<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/northwoodsleague.com\/la-crosse-loggers\/2015\/10\/22\/former-loggers-skipper-named-farm-director-for-seattle-mariners\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Former Loggers Skipper Named Farm Director for Seattle Mariners\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"SEATTLE, WA &#8211; 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