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Former Major-League Pitcher Abbott Making Most of Coaching Opportunity

Former Major-League Pitcher Abbott Making Most of Coaching Opportunity
Pitcher Paul Abbott #48 of the Seattle Mariners pitches against the New York Yankees during Game 4 of the American League Championship Series at Yankee Stadium in New York on Oct. 21, 2001. Al Bello/Getty Images
Dan Wood
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A former general manager of the Kansas City Royals then serving as an assistant to the general manager with the Boston Red Sox, Allard Baird visited Fullerton “to take a look at a couple of pitchers” in 2010.

He wound up with a pitching coach instead.

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Dan Wood is a community sports reporter based in Orange County, California. He has covered sports professionally for some 43 years, spending nearly three decades in the newspaper industry and 14 years in radio. He is an avid music fan, with a strong lean toward country and classic rock.
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