Pitching coach Rick Wise will return for a third season and Glenn Murray will be the team’s new hitting coach, the Lancaster Barnstormers announced Monday. Wise and Murray will join manager Frank Klebe on the bench for the 2007 season.
Wise, 61, is the only pitching coach in Barnstormers history. In 2006, his staff posted a league-best 75-51 record with a combined 4.15 ERA.
Glenn Murray brings a wealth of Atlantic League experience to the coaching staff having played for the Nashua Pride from 1999-2005. He is the league’s career leader in home runs (158) and RBIs (528).
Murray, 36, was selected by the Montreal Expos in the second round of the 1989 draft and hit 26 home runs for the Harrisburg Senators of the Eastern League in 1993. He was traded to the Boston Red Sox in 1994 and hit 50 home runs in two seasons with Class AAA Pawtucket. In 1996, he was traded to Philadelphia and played in 38 games for the Phillies.
The defending Atlantic League champions begin the 2007 season on May 4 against the Road Warriors at Clipper Magazine Stadium.
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