The Toronto Blue Jays have announced the Buffalo Bisons field staff for the 2013 season. Joining Herd Manager Marty Brown will be Pitching Coach Bob Stanley and Hitting Coach Jon Nunnally. Voon Chong will serve as the team’s athletic trainer and Armando Gutierrez will be the Bisons new strength and conditioning coach.
Stanley played 13 years in the major leagues, all of them with the Boston Red Sox. He was a first round pick of the Red Sox in 1974 and was Boston’s all-time saves leader with 132 until Jonathan Papelbon passed him during the 2009 season. Overall, Stanley was 115-97 with a 3.64 ERA and 693 strikeouts in 637 career games. He was inducted into the Red Sox Hall of Fame in 2000.
Nunnally enters his seventh year as a coach and his second in the Toronto Blue Jays organization. In 2012, Nunnally was the hitting coach for the Double-A New Hampshire Fisher Cats with a lineup that finished third in the Eastern League with 121 home runs. The Fisher Cats also stole an E.L. best 145 bases, 20 more than any other team. Nunnally spent 2007-2011 in the Cleveland Indians organization and was the Tribe’s hitting coach from 2010-2011.
Nunnally played professionally for 15 seasons as an outfielder from 1992-2006 with seven different organizations. He played in parts of six major league seasons with the Royals, Reds, Red Sox and Mets and averaged .246 with 42 home runs and 125 RBI in 364 career games.
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