MINOR LeagUe OPeRaTIONs - MLB.com - Major League Baseball ...
MINOR LeagUe OPeRaTIONs - MLB.com - Major League Baseball ...
MINOR LeagUe OPeRaTIONs - MLB.com - Major League Baseball ...
Create successful ePaper yourself
Turn your PDF publications into a flip-book with our unique Google optimized e-Paper software.
JOe BeNge<br />
<strong>MINOR</strong> LEAGUE MEDICAL COORDINATOR<br />
Joe, 34, enTers his second<br />
season in the Rays organization<br />
and first as the minor<br />
league medical coordinator…spent<br />
last season as<br />
the Durham trainer after<br />
spending the previous 10 years with the Orioles<br />
organization…made stops at Bowie (2007-10),<br />
Delmarva (2004-06), Aberdeen (2002-03) and<br />
the Bluefield Orioles (2001)…prior to joining the<br />
JOeL sMITh<br />
REHABILITATION & ATHLETIC TRAINING COORDINATOR<br />
Joel enTers his ninth season<br />
with the Rays and his fourth<br />
in his current role. He spent<br />
the previous four years as a<br />
trainer at various Rays affiliates:<br />
Montgomery in 2008,<br />
Class-A Vero Beach in 2007 and Short-A Hudson<br />
Valley in 2005-06. In 2003, Joel interned with the<br />
TRUNg CaO<br />
STRENGTH & CONDITIONING COORDINATOR<br />
Trung enTers his seventh<br />
season as the Rays minor<br />
league strength and conditioning<br />
coordinator. T.C.<br />
previously worked in the<br />
Chicago White Sox organi-<br />
TIM McKeChNey<br />
<strong>MINOR</strong> LEAGUE EQUIPMENT MANAGER<br />
Tim Begins his 17th year<br />
with the Tampa Bay organization,<br />
10th as minor league<br />
equipment manager. He<br />
oversees the Charlotte Sports<br />
Park <strong>com</strong>plex year-round,<br />
maintains the clubhouse for minor league spring<br />
training, assists during major league spring training<br />
and orders all equipment for the Rays minor<br />
2012 TAMPA BAY RAYS MEDIA GUIDE<br />
<strong>MINOR</strong> LEAGUE OPERATIONS › PlAyeR deVeloPmenT<br />
329<br />
Orioles, served as the athletic training intern for<br />
the Class-A Lowell Spinners in the Red Sox organization<br />
in 2000…interned with the Orioles major<br />
league training staff in the summer of 1999…<br />
is a member of the National Athletic Trainers<br />
Association…graduated from Loyola College with<br />
a BS in Biology in 1999 and received his masters<br />
degree in kinesiology from Fresno Pacific<br />
University in 2010…resides in Bradenton with his<br />
wife, Samantha, and their daughter, Isla (1).<br />
Rays in minor league spring training and with the<br />
Tampa Yankees during the season. He graduated<br />
from the University of South Florida in 2003 with<br />
a degree in athletic training and worked with the<br />
football, basketball, baseball and men’s soccer<br />
teams. Joel and his wife, Sara, reside in Sarasota<br />
with their daughter, Emma Jean.<br />
zation for 11 seasons. He is a Certified Strength<br />
and Conditioning Specialist Registered (CSCS<br />
*R) and member of the National Strength and<br />
Conditioning Association. Trung and his wife,<br />
Helene, reside in Bradenton with their two sons,<br />
Ethan (3) and Eli (2).<br />
league affiliates. He previously served as the<br />
assistant minor league equipment manager from<br />
2000-03 and as a batboy from 1996-99, when he<br />
worked the organization’s first-ever game. Tim began<br />
his career as a batboy for the St. Petersburg<br />
Cardinals (1993-96). The Northeast High School<br />
graduate resides in North Port, Fla., with his wife,<br />
Brooke, their son, Jayce (3), daughter, Shae (1), and<br />
two dogs.<br />
ORGANIZATION COACHES & STAFF 40-MAN ROSTER NON-ROSTER INVITES RECORDS & HISTORY YEARLY SUMMARIES OPPONENTS <strong>MINOR</strong> LEAGUE OPERATIONS BROADCAST INFORMATION TROPICANA FIELD & MISC.<br />
Player Development