Jake Mangum on former Pirates outfielder and Gold Glove Award winner Corey Dickerson, a McComb, Miss. native who recently joined the Rays’ coaching staff: “He was the head coach at my rival high school the last two years, at Jackson Academy, and the Rays hired him as the outfield coach about two days before I got traded. I was talking to Corey like, ‘fired up to get to work with you.’ And then I get traded and I call Corey and I’m like, ‘Dude, we can’t work together but what do you got on Pittsburgh?’ He spoke amazing things about Pittsburgh, kind of gave me the rundown on what I needed to know. He joked, ‘I got a Gold Glove when I went to Pittsburgh. Maybe you can do the same thing, too.’ I was like, that would be the dream — or one of the dreams. Corey’s helped me out a lot in my career. He’s awesome. That’s a really cool side note right there, that I got traded to Pittsburgh basically the day he signed as the outfield coach with the Rays. He gave me everything I needed to know about Pittsburgh.”
