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MINOR LEAGUE STAFF
PLAYER DEVELOPMENT

PHIL PLANTIER HITTING COORDINATOR

MANAGERIAL AND COACHING SUMMARY
◆ Begins second season as the Angels Minor League Hitting Coordinator in 2025.
◆ Was Angels Assistant Major League Hitting Coach in 2023, after serving as Miami’s
Triple-A Jacksonville Hitting Coach in 2021 and 2022...Joined Miami following three
seasons (2018-20) in the Yankees organization, each as Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre’s
Hitting Coach.
◆ Served as Padres Hitting Coach from 2012-14...In first season as San Diego’s Hitting
Coach, improved the Club’s totals in several offensive categories, including average, OBP, slugging, runs and
home runs (30 more home runs in 2011)...Served as Hitting Coach and Interim Manager for San Diego’s
Single-A Lake Elsinore Storm in 2011.
◆ Spent three seasons (2008-10) with the Mariners organization as Hitting Coordinator (2010), Double-A
Tennessee’s Manager (2009) and a coach for Tennessee (2008).
PLAYING CAREER
◆ Originally selected by the Red Sox in 11th round of 1987 Draft...Went on to play in parts of eight Major League
seasons, posting a .243 (457/1883) with 90 doubles, 91 home runs and 292 RBI in 610 games with the Red Sox
(1990-92), Padres (1993-95, 1997), Astros (1995), A’s (1996), and Cardinals (1997)...His 91 home career home
runs are the most ever by a New Hampshire-born player.
◆ Finished eighth in A.L. Rookie of the Year voting in 1991 after batting .331 (49/148) with seven doubles, one
triple, 11 home runs and 35 RBI in 53 games for Boston. PLAYER DEVELOPMENT
◆ He and wife, Jennifer have three children: Ryan, Tyler and Emily, who is married to Tyler Nevin (former MLB
infielder and son of former Angels manager Phil Nevin)...Following playing career, earned bachelor’s degree
social science from Cal State San Marcos.
ERICK SALCEDO ARIZONA & LATIN AMERICAN
FIELD COORDINATOR
COACHING SUMMARY
◆ Returns for his fifth year as a coach within the Angels minor league system in 2025
and third as Arizona and Latin American Field Coordinator.
◆ Joined Angels Player Development staff in 2021 as a coach for the ACL Angels.
PLAYING CAREER
◆ As a player, totaled 10 minor league seasons after signing with the Angels in 2010
out of Venezuela...He was traded to Baltimore in 2016, playing three seasons in the
Orioles minor league system...Salcedo was signed back by the Angels in 2019 and spent the season playing for
Double-A Mobile and Triple-A Salt Lake.

RYAN SEBRA HITTING PERFORMANCE COORDINATOR

COACHING SUMMARY
◆ Sebra will begin his first season as the Angels Minor League Hitting Performance
Coordinator in 2025...Most recently, he was the Hitting Performance Coach with the ACL
Angels in 2024.
◆ Served as a hitting coach with Angels affiliates for seven seasons, including stops
with High-A Tri-City in 2023, Low-A Inland Empire from 2021-22, Rookie-level Orem from
2019-20, and the AZL Angels hitting coach in 2018...Joined Angels Player Development
staff in 2017 following two seasons as an infielder in the organization.
PLAYING CAREER
◆ Sebra signed with the Angels in 2015 as a non-drafted free agent and appeared in 84 games with AZL Angels
and High-A Inland Empire across two years.
◆ Native of Ormond Beach, FL...Played two seasons at Jacksonville State University (2014-15)...Graduated
with a degree in Economics.

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