Reggie Willits joins New York Yankees - 美國職棒

After helping restore Binger-Oney's baseball program to power, Reggie Willits
is back in the majors.

The former Oklahoma standout and MLB outfielder has accepted a coordinator
position with the New York Yankees, he told The Oklahoman on Monday.

"It was a position where I was going to get to come back to Oklahoma so many
days a month and get to be home with my kids a lot," Willits said. "They
worked it out in my contract where my family can go with me a lot in the
summer time. It wasn't something I was looking to do, but it was something I
felt like I was being led to go so I'm going to give it a shot."

Willits is the outfield and baserunning coordinator for the Yankees, where he
will try to instill his aggressive style on the basepaths at all levels of
the organization.

"My job is to put together a baserunning program and to help the outfield
prospects keep progressing," Willits said. "The biggest thing I'm going to do
is put my aggressive baserunning into their system. They're wanting to get
more aggressive on the basepaths. It's going to be something that's a
challenge but I think I can do it."

In six years with the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, Willits stole 40 bases
and was thrown out only 17 times.

For the past two years, Willits has instilled his aggressive philosophy at
Binger-Oney, the hometown of MLB Hall of Famer Johnny Bench. It was an
extremely successful tenure as the Bobcats made the state tournament four of
the five seasons he coached and won the state championship twice.

He said his assistant Randy Smith has been named his replacement.

"Whatever job you do in life, you try to leave it in a better state than what
it was when you got there and hopefully we did that," Willits said. "Not just
in wins and losses, but hopefully in other things we stood for like the
education side of it."


老朋友Reggie Willits成為洋基系統的外野和跑壘指導員


過去兩年他在Binger-Oney的高中球隊任教

並帶領球隊拿到兩次的州冠軍

祝福他!




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