Seattle Mariners: Scott Brosius Added As Mariners Assistant

The Mariners are holding off on making moves with their roster, but they have decided to make a coaching change. Yes, the M’s have promoted Scott Brosius -the clubs AAA Tacoma affiliates hitting coach- to join the major league side as an assistant coach.

Brosius is quickly working his way up the ranks in the Mariners organization. Not even a year ago, Brosius signed his first minor league coaching contract with the M’s AAA team in Tacoma. Now he will be on the biggest stage working alongside the Mariners best coaches in their system.

Brosius initially sparked the interest of the Mariners as he was racking up coach of the year award after coach of the year award at Linfield College. He was awarded that prestigious honor five times in a span of seven years.

Though, as most people remember, before Brosius got into the coaching ranks, he was a New York Yankee and Oakland Athletic. His biggest moment as a big league player came in game five of the 2001 World Series.

Brosius stepped to the plate with the tying run at second. He sat on a first pitch ball that was way inside. The next toss was left up and over the plate and Brosius crushed the ball out of the park, tying the game a two.

As history tells us, the Yankees would go on to win game five on a walk-off single in the twelfth. Yet, they would eventually lose the series in seven games on a walk-off bloop single by Luiz Gonzalez in the bottom of the ninth.

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The Mariners hope that Brosius’s presence with the club at the big league level will have as positive of  an impact as it did in that 2001 game five and on the Yankees championship teams of 98′, 99′ and 00′.