{"id":2187509,"date":"2025-12-05T01:14:36","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T01:14:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2187509"},"modified":"2025-12-05T01:14:36","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T01:14:36","slug":"former-skidmore-coach-hired-by-kansas-city-royals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/former-skidmore-coach-hired-by-kansas-city-royals\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Skidmore Coach Hired by Kansas City Royals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"post-41251\">\n<p>    <meta property=\"name\" content=\"Former Skidmore Coach Hired by Kansas City Royals\"\/><br \/>\n    <meta property=\"author\" typeof=\"Person\" content=\"Jonathon Norcross\"\/><br \/>\n    <meta property=\"dateModified\" content=\"2025-12-04T09:44:26-05:00\"\/><br \/>\n    <meta class=\"uk-margin-remove-adjacent\" property=\"datePublished\" content=\"2025-12-04T09:44:18-05:00\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"uk-margin-top uk-margin-remove-bottom uk-article-meta\">\n                Written by <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/saratogatodaynewspaper.com\/author\/jonathon-norcross\/\">Jonathon Norcross<\/a> on <time datetime=\"2025-12-04T09:44:18-05:00\">December 4, 2025<\/time>.                Posted in <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/saratogatodaynewspaper.com\/category\/sports\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Sports<\/a>.                            <\/p>\n<div class=\"uk-margin-medium-top\" property=\"text\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><strong><em>Image via the Kansas City Royals\u2019 X account.<\/em><\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>SARATOGA SPRINGS \u2014 Mike McFerran, a coach for Skidmore College\u2019s baseball team from 2017 to 2020, was named the Kansas City Royals\u2019 new assistant pitching coach last week.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>For the past two seasons, McFerran had been with the Athletics, first as a pitching performance coach in 2024 and then in the role of minor league pitching coordinator in 2025.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMike\u2019s track record is a good one,\u201d the Royals\u2019 general manager J.J. Picollo told MLB.com. \u201cThe way he was able to express his ideas and the way he thinks about pitching really made a lot of sense to us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Prior to working in the majors, McFerran was also the pitching lab coordinator and director of player development at Wake Forest University from 2021 to 2023.<\/p>\n<p>At Skidmore, McFerran served in a few different roles, including assistant coach and pitching coach. He\u2019s credited with mentoring a number of All-Liberty League pitchers, including Andrew Aikins, Spencer Anderson, Jay Gamboa, and Will Potter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMike is a phenomenal coach and an even better human being,\u201d Skidmore\u2019s head baseball coach Ron Plourde told Saratoga TODAY last year. \u201cHe\u2019s one of the brightest coaches that I\u2019ve had the pleasure of working with.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>McFerran is a Capital Region native, spending his youth in both Albany and Lake George. He attended Catholic Central High School in Troy. His local ties also include a stint as the Amsterdam Mohawks\u2019 pitching coach.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"post-views-icon dashicons dashicons-chart-bar\"\/> <span class=\"post-views-label\">Post Views:<\/span> <span class=\"post-views-count\">187<\/span>&#13;\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<nav class=\"uk-margin-medium\">\n<\/nav>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async defer crossorigin=\"anonymous\" src=\"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_EN\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&#038;version=v14.0\" nonce=\"YdxDqj8Y\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source saratogatodaynewspaper.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Written by Jonathon Norcross on December 4, 2025. Posted in Sports. Image via the Kansas City Royals\u2019 X account. SARATOGA SPRINGS \u2014 Mike McFerran, a coach for Skidmore College\u2019s baseball team from 2017 to 2020, was named the Kansas City Royals\u2019 new assistant pitching coach last week.\u00a0 For the past two seasons, McFerran had been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2187510,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2187509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-royalty"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Former-Skidmore-Coach-Hired-by-Kansas-City-Royals.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2187509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2187509"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2187509\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2187511,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2187509\/revisions\/2187511"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2187510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2187509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2187509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2187509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}