Morgan Ensberg Returns to Lead Montgomery

The Montgomery Biscuits and the Tampa Bay Rays are excited to announce the 2022 Montgomery Biscuits Coaching staff.

Morgan Ensberg will manage the Biscuits along with newcomers including Jim Paduch, Pitching Coach, Wuanner Rincones, Hitting Coach, and Sean Smedley, Bench Coach. James Ramsdell will return as Athletic Trainer, and James McCallie will serve as Conditioning Coach.

Morgan Ensberg enters his third season managing Montgomery, who lost in the decisive Game 5 of the 2021 Double-A South Championship Series. He led the Biscuits to a franchise-record 88 wins in 2019, earning Southern League Manager of the Year honors. The 88 wins were the 2nd-most among all minor league teams behind Class-A Delmarva (90) of the Orioles organization. Ensberg joined the Rays after managing for two seasons in the Astros system, with Class-A Buies Creek in the Carolina League in 2018 and Short-A Tri-City in the New York-Penn League in 2017. He spent the 2016 season as the Astros minor league mindset coach, the 2014-15 seasons as the Astros minor league special assignment coach and the 2013 season as the infield coach at Class-A Lancaster. Morgan joined the coaching ranks in 2011 and spent two seasons as a hitters and infielders coach for the University of California San Diego. He played parts of eight seasons in the majors with the Astros (2000, 2002-07), Padres (2007) and Yankees (2008). Ensberg was named the Astros MVP in 2005, when they won the NL pennant and came to Rays camp as a non-roster invite in 2009, but was released at the end of spring training.

Jim Paduch was a non-roster invite by the Rays to major league spring training in 2013. He spent parts of three seasons (2011-13) in the Rays organization, appearing in 59 games (41 starts) between Montgomery and Triple-A Durham. He was a 12th-round selection of the Reds in the 2003 June Draft and spent four seasons in independent leagues prior to signing with the Rays in 2011.

Wuanner Rincones worked 10 years (1996-2005) at the Chicago White Sox Venezuelan academy as a hitting coach, infield instructor and scout. He played five years (1991-95) as an infielder in the White Sox system, reaching as high as Class-A South Bend of the Midwest League in 1995.

Sean Smedley was signed by the Rays as a non-drafted free agent following the 2013 June Draft. He played parts of three minor league seasons in the Rays organization, with the GCL Rays in 2013 and Class-A Bowling Green from 2014-15.

James Ramsdell completed athletic training internships with the Rays in 2012-13 and finished his master’s degree in sport management from East Carolina University in 2013, where he worked with the men’s and women’s swimming and diving, softball, and track and field teams. He earned a Bachelor of Science degree in athletic training from Salem State University (Mass.) in 2010.

James McCallie joined the Rays organization in 2018. He served as the Bowling Green Hot Rods strength and conditioning coordinator in 2018-19 before joining Charleston in 2021.