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Abbott Named Pitching Coach in Arizona Fall League

Red Sox pitching coach to work with Scottsdale Scorpions
By
July 30, 2015

SALEM, Va. - The Arizona Fall League announced the organization and staff assignments for the 2015 season this week and Salem Red Sox pitching coach Paul Abbott was named the pitching coach for the Scottsdale Scorpions.

Abbott is the only member of the Boston Red Sox organization that will appear on a coaching or training staff in the league. The Scorpions roster will be made up of players from the Red Sox, Cleveland Indians, Detroit Tigers, Minnesota Twins and San Francisco Giants organizations.

Abbott is in his first season as Salem's pitching coach after previously occupying the same role with the Low-A Greenville Drive from 2013-14 and with the Short Season-A Lowell Spinners from 2011-12. Prior to joining the Red Sox, he spent two seasons in the independent Golden League with the Orange County Flyers, serving as the manager in 2010 and the pitching coach in 2009. Abbott spent parts of 11 seasons in the major leagues from 1990-2004 with the Twins, Indians, Mariners, Royals, Devil Rays and Phillies. He won a career-high 17 games with Seattle in 2001 during the Mariners 116-win season.

On the Arizona Fall League via a release from Major League Baseball:

Regarded throughout professional baseball as the "finishing school" for top prospects since its inception in 1992, the six-team league features top prospects from every organization in Major League Baseball. The league plays three games per day six days a week (Monday-Saturday) in six Cactus League stadiums. This year, the league returns to the Peoria Sports Complex. The returning sites are Camelback Ranch-Glendale, Salt River Fields at Talking Stick, Scottsdale Stadium and Surprise Stadium.

Daily start times are 12:35 p.m. and 6:35 p.m.

The 10th annual Fall Stars Game will be played Saturday, November 7 at Surprise Stadium. The league's championship contest will be played Saturday, November 21 at Scottsdale Stadium.

The 2015 schedule will be released Thursday, July 30. The Arizona Fall League is owned and operated by Major League Baseball.

At least one coach or trainer from every organization that sends players to the Arizona Fall League is represented on a team's staff. Abbott will join a Scottsdale staff that includes manager Matt Quatraro of the Cleveland Indians, hitting coaches Chad Allen of the Minnesota Twins and Nelson Santovenia of the Detroit Tigers, as well as trainers Dave Getsoff of the San Francisco Giants and Jason Schwartzman of the Detroit Tigers.

Abbott is one of three coaches in the Carolina League who will appear in the Arizona Fall League. He joins Myrtle Beach Pelicans manager Mark Johnson, who will manage the Mesa Solar Sox, and Potomac Nationals manager Tripp Keister, who will manage the Salt River Rafters.