The New Manager

The Colorado Rockies finally got around to naming former Asheville Tourist player Fred Ocasio as the new Manager for the 2013 season. Ocasio has been a manager for the past six seasons at Tri-City in the Colorado Rockies system with an overall record of 232-224. He is joined by Last years pitching coach, Joey Eischen, and hitting coach Mike Devereaux. Ex-major league catcher Marv Foley was named as the director of player development. Ocasio played 55 games for the Asheville Tourists as a middle infielder in 1994-95 and had a .317 Batting Average with 1 Homerun and 14 RBI's. He also pitched in 2 games, throwing 1 2/3 innings, and giving up 0 runs. The major advantage to him taking the step up to Asheville is that he will already be familiar with a lot of the Tourists players. First Pitch is a little over two months away.