Roger Hansen

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Roger Hansen
Bench coach
Born: (1961-08-28) August 28, 1961 (age 62)
Johnstown, Pennsylvania
Bats: Right
Throws: Right
Teams
As coach

Roger Christian Hansen (born August 28, 1961) is an American former professional baseball player and a former

Omaha Royals (1985–1986), the Double-A Chattanooga Lookouts (1987), the Double-A Vermont Mariners (1988), the Double-A Williamsport Bills and the Triple-A Calgary Cannons (1988, 1989). Hansen has never played in Major League Baseball
.

Professional career

Playing career

Hansen was drafted by the

Omaha Royals
late in the season. Hansen batted .324 with 68 hits, 10 doubles and two home runs in 66 games between the two teams. In 1986, Hansen spent the entire season with the Omaha Royals. He batted .253 with 49 hits, five doubles and four home runs in 73 games.

Before the 1987 season, Hansen joined the Seattle Mariners organization and was assigned to the Double-A Chattanooga Lookouts for the season. In 98 games, Hansen batted .281 with 94 hits, 12 doubles, one triple and five home runs. During the 1988 season, Hansen played at the Double-A and Triple-A level. First, with the Double-A Vermont Mariners, Hansen batted .301 with 31 hits, two doubles, one triple and one home run in 34 games. With the Triple-A Calgary Cannons, he batted .250 with 39 hits, six doubles and two home runs in 51 games. During that season, Hansen's friend, Kurt Stillwell, compared Hansen to Crash Davis from the movie Bull Durham.[3] Hansen spent his final season as a player in 1989 with the Double-A Williamsport Bills and the Triple-A Calgary Cannons. In 122 combined games between the two teams, he batted .205 with 25 hits and five doubles.

Coaching career

In 1992, Hansen joined the Seattle Mariners as a

Orix BlueWave in Japan's Pacific League.[8] He re-joined the Mariners' organization in 2002 as a coach with the Everett AquaSox.[8] Hansen managed the AquaSox for the last 28 games of the 2002 season.[8] In 2003, he was named the Mariners' minor-league catching coordinator.[8] On August 10, 2010, the Mariners fired members of their coaching staff, including bench coach Ty Van Burkleo, and Hansen was hired to take over that position on an interim basis.[9]

Personal

Hansen was born on August 28, 1961, in Johnstown, Pennsylvania. He resides in Stanwood, Washington with his wife Lynn and their two children.[8]

Footnotes

  • minor league baseball
    teams.

References

General references
  1. "Roger Hansen Minor League Statistics & History". Baseball-Reference. Sports Reference, LLC. Retrieved August 11, 2010.
Inline citations
  1. ^ "1980 Draft Results: Round 2". The Baseball Cube. The Baseball Cube. Retrieved August 11, 2010.
  2. ^ "1982 South Atlantic League Batting Leaders". Baseball-Reference. Sports Reference, LLC. Retrieved August 11, 2010.
  3. ^ Ronald Blum (August 28, 1988). "Movie's Plot is Realistic...Maybe". Gainesville Sun. Associated Press. Archived from the original on March 28, 2020. Retrieved August 11, 2010.
  4. ^ "Mariners complete staff". Moscow-Pullman Daily News. Associated Press. November 19, 1991. Retrieved August 11, 2010.
  5. ^ "1992 Seattle Mariners Pitching Stats". The Baseball Cube. The Baseball Cube. Retrieved August 11, 2010.
  6. ^ "Seattle cleans house". Sarasota Herald-Tribune. Associated Press. October 14, 1992. Retrieved August 11, 2010.
  7. ^ "Roger Hansen: Jobs in Baseball". The Baseball Cube. The Baseball Cube. Retrieved August 11, 2010.
  8. ^ a b c d e "Mariners bios". The Seattle Times. The Seattle Times. August 9, 2010. Retrieved August 11, 2010.
  9. ^ "Mariners fire Don Wakamatsu as manager". Detroit Free Press. Detroit Free Press. August 10, 2010. Retrieved August 11, 2010. [dead link]

External links

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