MLB: Twins ‘steals’ Dominican Minor League manager from Yankees and joins the Player Development staff

Former major league outfielder July Bourbonwho has been coaching and managing in the New York Yankees minor league system since retiring four years ago, announced this week that he has accepted a new position in the Minnesota Twins player development staff.

He will perform as new Assistant Player Development Coordinator of the team, as he takes the next step in his post-game career within the game. Bourbon, 36 years old next month, thanked the Yankees for “[brindarme] the right culture and structure to start my career as a coach”:

He originally joined the Yankees organization for the 2019 season and has served as defensive coach/baserunning since then, before moving up to manager in the Yankees’ Florida Coast League affiliate in 2021.

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Julio Alberto Borbón was born on February 20, 1986 in Starkville, Mississippi (although he is of Dominican origin). He batted and threw for the profile of lefties, he is 1.83 meters tall and weighs 88 kilograms.


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I am a fan of the King of Sports, especially the Boston Red Sox in MLB and all Mexican baseball in general. This profession has given me the opportunity to cover major events such as the Caribbean Series, LMB All Star, LMP (uninterruptedly since 2009), signatures of important players. I had the chance to attend the 2013 World Classic in Arizona, USA, although as a fan. Apart from this beautiful sport, I love basketball, where I have also narrated games and even an NBA friendly 10 years ago, but I have baseball in my veins. Degree in Communication Sciences from the Autonomous University of Sinaloa (UAS) , from which I graduated in 2011. I was born in Mazatlán, Sinaloa and started in the world of sports journalism in 2004 in the newspaper El Sol de Mazatlán, where I was a baseball columnist and a reporter at the same time. In January 2009 I arrived at El Debate as a journalist reporter and it was almost six years (in the first stage), until in November 2014 I emigrated to the radio providing my services at Línea Directa-Grupo RSN. My cycle there ended in July 2019 and a few days later, El Debate gave me another opportunity to work and opened the doors for me again. This is how I came to Al Bat, where I have been since 2019 as a web journalist.

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MLB: Twins ‘steals’ Dominican Minor League manager from Yankees and joins the Player Development staff