Brian Buchanan
For the third year in a row, the Idaho Falls Chukars will have a new manager. But this year’s edition won’t just be new to Idaho. He’ll be new to managing.
This will be the first managing job for Brian Buchanan, who spent the 2009 season playing for the Omaha Royals, Kansas City’s Triple-A affiliate.
Carlos Martinez, the Chukars’ pitching coach in 2008, will return while manager Darryl Kennedy will take over the Royals’ Arizona League affiliate.
The New York Yankees drafted Buchanan in the first round, 24th overall, of the 1994 draft as an outfielder. Four years later, he was traded to the Minnesota Twins for Chuck Knoblauch. And the two years after that, the Twin traded him to San Diego for Jason Bartlett.
Buchanan played five seasons in the Major League, hitting .258 with 32 home runs in 767 at-bats.
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