McMahon to Manage SI Yankees

Former Florida Gator Head coach to Lead Baby Bombers in '08

By: Robert Pimpsner

September 30, 2007 – The 2008 Staten Island Yankees will be led by a McMahon, Pat McMahon that is.  About a week after 2007 skipper Mike Gillespie took over the reins of UC Irvine’s baseball program the Yankees made the move to bring in another former college coach.

                Pat McMahon joins the New York Yankees as the Special Assistant for Player Development and Scouting.  Part of his job would include evaluating the Yankees prospects, working with players in the Yankees training facility in the Dominican Republic as well as assisting in the draft process.  This puts the former Gator in a perfect position to lead the Baby Bombers, as most of the team will come from the 2008 First-Year Player Draft.

                McMahon compiled a 555-287-1 record in 14 seasons as a college head coach with Florida, Old Dominion and Mississippi State.  In his last 6 seasons, he led the Florida Gators 202-113-1 and an incredible 141-51 at Alfred A McKethan Stadium at Perry Field.

                When asked about accepting the position McMahon stated, “Wearing the pinstripes was a boyhood dream which his becoming a reality for me, I am extremely excited to grow and continue to get better at the professional level with a tremendous organization.”

                This marks McMahon’s first job with a Major League organization and he will become the eighth skipper in Staten Island Yankees history

                McMahon will be the second ex-head coach of the Florida Gators to manage the Baby Bombers.  Joe Arnold, who managed the Staten Island Yankees in their inaugural year in 1999 and also led the Yankees to their first NY-Penn League title in 2000, was head coach for the Gators from 1984 to 1994.

                The 2008 Staten Island Yankees season will be the tenth in the team’s history and eighth at the Richmond County Bank Ballpark at St. George.