Tom Kotchman
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| Manager, Gulf Coast Red Sox Scout (regional cross-checker) |
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Born: August 14, 1954 Grafton, North Dakota |
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John Thomas Kotchman (born August 14, 1954 in Grafton, North Dakota) is an American professional baseball scout, coach and minor league manager. In 2017 he will spend his fourth consecutive season as manager of the Gulf Coast Red Sox, Rookie-level affiliate of the Boston Red Sox of Major League Baseball.
In 2008, Kotchman was one of the inaugural inductees into the Professional Baseball Scouts Hall of Fame.
Kotchman attended high school in Seminole, Florida, and played baseball at Chipola Junior College in Florida and Georgia Southern University. He was signed by the Cincinnati Reds in 1977 and played two seasons (1977–78) in their farm system at the Class A level. A third baseman, he threw and batted right-handed, stood 6 feet 1 inch (1.85 m) tall and weighed 180 pounds (82 kg).
The 2012 season marked Kotchman's 34th consecutive year as a minor league manager. He began his career in 1979 at age 24 with the Auburn Redstars in the Short-Season Class A New York–Penn League. The Auburn franchise lacked a Player Development Contract and was designated a "co-op" team, receiving its players on loan from multiple Major League organizations. After one season there, Kotchman became manager of teams affiliated with MLB organizations. He spent 1980–81 in the Detroit Tigers' system, as skipper of the Bristol Tigers of the Rookie-level Appalachian League in 1980, then the Macon Peaches of the full-season Class A South Atlantic League in 1981. He then spent 1982–83 as pilot of the Red Sox' Class A Florida State League franchise, the Winter Haven Red Sox.
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