#Mariners Asst GM Andy McKay Exits Team, Per Reports | #SeattleSports

Uh Mariners assistant GM Andy McKay is headed to Cleveland. That’s Perk Ken Rosenthal at the Athletic. Uh that’s a name that you know gets said a lot on the air and he’s worn a lot of different hats in that Mariners front office and their coaching staff. How important has Andy been uh to really this whole tenure that because I think him and Jerry were here at the same time, right? He was Jerry hire. I believe he was Jerry’s first hire. Yeah. And not only was he Jerry’s first hire, there is a huge coaching tree that comes from Andy McCay and and mostly what he did in the Northwoods leagues like um Pete Woodworth played for him. Wow. There are all sorts of just kind of connections and coaching connections and and whatnot that come with that. And he of course is very very responsible for what we see with the minor league in as far as he’s the one who set up the systems, you know, he’s the one that set up the processes. he is always, you know, studying and even in his uh more recent role as an assistant manager was still very focused forward on development and and what they were doing in the minors. I remember he was on an early trip this year and I’m, you know, kind of curious. Hey, Andy, what are you looking at? You know, mountain visits. Wow. Okay. So, he was, you know, what how can you have the most effective mountain visit? You know, every aspect, no stone unturned. And also not the most recent but the kind of medium recent with Andy McKay is he has been huge in the draft. He has been like the college football recruiter. Go sit in the living room get to know this guy. You know he of course is you all over the mental skills and has been since day one in this organization. And so he was somebody that they wanted to be in front of and to get the players in front of that they had interests. Every single one of them he’d be in the living room. he would have the conversations, he would get to know them. So, uh, you’re losing a lot of different aspects there. And I think I saw, and I’m still waiting for confirmation. We haven’t heard that this is official yet, but I think I saw that it was field coordinator, which I believe is an onfield job. And I think Andy’s passion is in coaching. And I I think that is something in a direction. It sounds a little bit odd to go from assistant general manager to this, but I think that this is where, you know, he for his development and the passion that he has had, this is somewhere that he would like to

MLB insider Ken Rosenthal (The Athletic) reports that the Cleveland Guardians are hiring Mariners assistant GM Andy McKay as field coordinator.

Mariners Insider Shannon Drayer joins Curtis Rogers and Stacy Rost (Bump & Stacy) to react to the news.

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