Glenallen Hill To Manage Isotopes in 2015

Former Major League outfielder Glenallen Hill has been named the Albuquerque Isotopes field manager for the 2015 season by the Colorado Rockies. This season will mark Hill's third campaign as a manager, having served as a coach in the Rockies organization since 2003.

Joining Hill in Albuquerque will be hitting coach Dave Hajek and pitching coach Darryl Scott.

Hill, 49, managed the Colorado Spring Sky Sox in 2013 and 2014 after six seasons as the first-base coach for Colorado. Now in his 11th season with the organization, Hill began his coaching career in 2004 as the hitting coach for the Rockies High-A affiliate. Hill also served as the interim manager for the Modesto Nuts for the last three months of the 2006 season when former skipper Chad Kreuter was named head coach at the University of Southern California. The Santa Cruz, CA, native has also served on the coaching staff for California/Carolina League All-Star Game in 2006 and on the National League All-Star coaching staff led by Clint Hurdle at Yankee Stadium in 2008.

Prior to entering the coaching ranks, Hill enjoyed a 13-year Major League career until his retirement in 2001. After being selected by the Toronto Blue Jays in the ninth round of the 1983 June draft, he went on to see Major League time with the Blue Jays (1989-91), Indians (1991-93), Cubs (1993-94, 1998-99), Giants (1995-97), Mariners (1998), Yankees (2000) and Angels (2001). Hill compiled a .271 lifetime average with 186 homers and 586 RBI in 1,162 games and was heralded as was one of the game's top pinch hitters, claiming a .287 lifetime average in the pinch with 13 home runs. In 2000, Hill hit .333 with 16 homers in 40 games to help the Yankees win the World Series.

Hill and his wife, Lori, have four children: Simone, Chanel, Heleyna and Glenallen Jr. He graduated in 1983 from Santa Cruz High School, where he was just the second high school athlete ever offered scholarships to Arizona State University in both baseball and football (Reggie Jackson).

Hajek (haah-jik), 47, begins his 12th year in the Rockies organization and his third at the Triple-A level. Hajek was promoted to his current role after spending the previous four seasons as a roving infield coordinator (2012) and the hitting coach with the Double-A Tulsa Drillers (2009-2011). He began his coaching career with the Single-A Asheville Tourists in 2004 before moving onto Modesto for two seasons.

A former second baseman, Hajek retired after the 1999 season following a 10-year professional career, compiling a .301 Minor League average with 43 homers and 526 RBI. He had brief Major League stint with the Astros, playing five games in 1995 and eight games in 1996 when he hit .250 in 13 combined games. During his Minor League career, Hajek was a three-time Pacific Coast League All-Star (1994, 95, 98).

Scott, 46, begins his sixth year in the Rockies organization and his first at the Triple-A level. He began his coaching career in 2009 as the pitching coach for the Short-A Tri-City ValleyCats before moving onto two seasons with Modesto in 2011.

Scott enjoyed an 11-year professional career that included a 16-game stint in the Major Leagues in 1993 with the California Angels and a year with the Yokohama Bay Stars of the Japan Central League. Scott turned in a career 105 Minor League saves with a 3.41 ERA. He struck out 706 batters in 716.0 innings pitched against only 288 walks to go along with a 40-45 ledger. Scott was a member of the 1995 Sky Sox Pacific Coast League Championship team.

Heath Townsend will serve as the Medical Trainer, while Brian Buck and Mike Jasperson will be Physical Performance Coaches. 

The Isotopes 2015 season gets underway April 9 against the Reno Aces at 6:35 p.m.