Jose Castro (baseball)

Jose Castro is a coach in Major League Baseball. Currently he is the hitting coach for the Seattle Mariners. Following manager John McLaren's firing on June 19, 2008, bench coach Jim Riggleman was promoted to the top spot, Lee Elia was moved from hitting coach to bench coach, and Castro became the new hitting coach for the team.

Castro was announced as the roving minor league hitting instructor for the entire Seattle Mariners organization in December 2007. [ [http://seattle.mariners.mlb.com/news/press_releases/press_release.jsp?ymd=20071204&content_id=2317529&vkey=pr_sea&fext=.jsp&c_id=sea Mariners announce 2008 Minor League Coaching and Player Development staff | Mariners.com: Official Info ] ] He was formerly the hitting coach with the San Diego Padres AAA affiliate Portland Beavers in 2005-2006, and the Montreal Expos now-defunct AAA affiliate Edmonton Trappers in 2003.

Signed out of high school in 1977, Castro played minor league ball for 14 years, with 10 of these being at the AAA level. However, he never played professional baseball, and instead went right into coaching, which he's done ever since.

Castro defected from Cuba with his family at a young age in 1965.

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* [http://www.komonews.com/marinersradio/beyond/20166344.html?video=pop&t=a] - KOMO radio interview on June 17, 2008