Monday, March 10, 2014

He gets paid to watch TV

Langbehn
At the bottom of this post is a link to a story about former Traverse City Beach Bums manager Gregg Langbehn, who will be working for the Cleveland Indians this year as the team's Replay Coordinator.

What's a Replay Coordinator? Well, the guy who will sit at pressbox level and watch the game on television, then tell Indians manager Terry Francona if he should challenge a call on the field. Remember, Major League Baseball is using replay challenges, like the NFL, for the first time this season.

One way of looking at it is, Langbehn will be paid to watch baseball on TV. Now there's a job a lot of people I know would love to have.

Langbehn was Traverse City's manager for the last five years and had a 267-212 career record and one appearance in the Frontier League championship series. He developed the Beach Bums into the top franchise in the Eastern Division.

Traverse City hired Dan Rohn, a longtime manager in affiliated ball as it new manager. Rohn was named Manger of the Year four times, once in the Class AA Eastern League and three times in the Class AAA Pacific Coast League. His most recent managerial job in 2010 with Las Vegas, the Toronto Blue Jays' Class AAA affiliate.

The Beach Bums also hired former major league pitcher Greg Cadaret as their pitching coach.

http://www.morningstarpublishing.com/articles/2014/03/10/
grand_traverse_insider/sports/doc531d46be34b51362505396.txt

2 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

I wonder who the Pirates reply coordiator will be?

March 11, 2014 at 11:10 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Did you mean replay?

March 12, 2014 at 6:38 AM  

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