Description
Miguel Angel Rojas is a American professional baseball coach and the 2014 bullpen coach of the Seattle Mariners of Major League Baseball. A former coach, minor league manager and player development official with the Detroit Tigers' organization, he joined the Mariners' staff under new skipper Lloyd McClendon, who was the hitting coach under Jim Leyland when he and Rojas were with the Tigers.
Rojas is the son of former MLB second baseman, coach, manager and scout Cookie Rojas, still in baseball as a television analyst on the Miami Marlins' Spanish network. Rojas' brother Victor is the TV play-by-play announcer for the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim.
Mike Rojas joined the Tigers' organization in 2004 and had been Detroit's MLB bullpen coach since July 3, 2011, when his predecessor, Jeff Jones, was promoted to Detroit's pitching coach position. He served in that post until the end of the 2013 season.
Previously, he had held posts as the Tigers' director of player development, field coordinator of instruction, roving minor league catching instructor and minor league manager at the Short Season-A, Class A and Triple-A levels.
Born
April 17th, 1963 in (Age 61)
Last Changes
2019/02/13
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2019/02/13
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2019/01/23
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