J.T. Snow joins new minor-league team as manager

By Trevor Morgan Modesto s new Pioneer Baseball League crew just now named the Glow Riders communicated six-time Gold Glove award winner and former San Francisco Giant J T Snow as its manager last week The Glow Riders an expansion band will compete in the same league as Oakland s Ballers Snow played first base for greater part of his career and won the premier position-player award six consecutive times from to as both a California Angel and a Giant His career slashes batting average on base percentage and slugging were Snow was initially drafted by the New York Yankees in but was traded to the Angels the next season He played for the Angels from to He was traded in to the Giants where he played until Snow s tenure with the Giants included a World Series appearance in The Giants lost to Snow s former association the Angels in tournament seven Snow had a batting average in that series He retired a Giant in Since Snow had been the bench manager for the Ballers who made headlines for replacing the Oakland Athletics following their departure for Las Vegas via Sacramento The Ballers won the Pioneer League championship in Snow was broadcasted at a press conference held at the DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel in downtown Modesto Related Articles As the Seidler family explores a sale the Padres are considered beachfront real estate SF Giants lose another coach as Hallberg takes job with Twins delos Santos How I filled out my NL Preponderance Valuable Competitor ballot SF Giants Webb finishes fourth in NL Cy Young Award voting SF Giants to hire Hunter Mense as new hitting coach review During his address Snow covered how he was going to roster the organization his style-of-play philosophy and his approach to area engagement Snow explained he did his research into the history of baseball in the area and called it a great baseball town We re an independent baseball club and we don t have any affiliation with any major league squad so we re going to have an affiliation with the people of Modesto and the fans of Modesto he declared The press conference also broadcasted Alex Leach as the squad s pitching coach Leach is the head coach for Modesto Junior College s Pirates baseball group The Glow Riders will arrive as the Single-A Modesto Nuts an affiliate of the Seattle Mariners since will relocate to San Bernardino in