{"id":838,"date":"2013-11-04T22:20:07","date_gmt":"2013-11-04T22:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/northwoodsleague.com\/mankato-moondogs\/?p=838"},"modified":"2013-11-11T16:23:10","modified_gmt":"2013-11-11T16:23:10","slug":"orchard-ready-for-sixth-year-with-moondogs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/northwoodsleague.com\/mankato-moondogs\/2013\/11\/04\/orchard-ready-for-sixth-year-with-moondogs\/","title":{"rendered":"Orchard Ready for Sixth Year with MoonDogs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\tMANKATO, Minn. &#8211; The Mankato MoonDogs, members of the Northwoods League, are thrilled to announce that Field Manager Mike Orchard will be returning to Mankato for the summer of 2014.The all-time winningest manager in MoonDogs history will get the chance to pad his already-impressive record as Orchard, the pitching coach for Central Arizona College, will spend his sixth season in the Franklin Rogers Park dugout. Orchard&#039;os 190 victories find him second among active Northwoods League managers and in the top ten all-time. &quot;The MoonDogs are extremely lucky to be able to bring back a proven winner behind the helm in Mike,&quot;MoonDogs Vice President Kyle Mrozek said. &quot;Orch has found a home in Mankato and his past success and accomplishments speak for themselves.&quot; Despite sporting an extensive coaching resume, including playoff appearances in three of the last five years and managing three Northwoods League All-Star Games, Orchard returns in 2014 as hungry as ever. &quot;It&#039;s good to get wins but I&#039;d rather have the division titles and Championships,&quot; said Orchard.&nbsp; &quot;This next season is all about getting over the hump, we&#039;ve had success in the past so we are looking to improve upon that.&quot; While the 2013 campaign ended without the elusive playoff hardware for Orchard&amp;rsquos MoonDogs, it was still yet another successful year.&nbsp; Mankato just came up short in capturing a second-half North Division Title and saw a slew of individual single-season and career records set.Even though Orchard is determined to keep building upon the winning culture he helped establish in Mankato, he doesn&amp;rsquot forget about the little things that make being a Northwoods League manager so special to him. &quot;I&#039;m really proud of the impact we&#039;ve had on our players&quot; Orchard reflects. &quot;Year in and year out kids come in and play hard for us and I think they go back to school as better stronger players who are more ready to move on in their careers.&quot; It is this pride and dedication to the players that has made the MoonDogs and the Northwoods League instrumental for the advancement of so many through the years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANKATO, Minn. &#8211; The Mankato MoonDogs, members of the Northwoods League, are thrilled to announce that Field Manager Mike Orchard  [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":892,"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":[27,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-announcements","category-team-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.5 (Yoast SEO v26.5) - 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