Rick Adair

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Michael Richard Adair

Bats Left, Throws Left
Height 6' 0", Weight 175 lb.
School Western Carolina University

Born January 19, 1958 in Spartanburg, SC USA

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Pitcher Rick Adair was selected by the Seattle Mariners in the third round of the 1979 amateur draft and played seven seasons in the minors before his career was ended by elbow injuries.

Since then, he has spent most of his career as a minor league pitching coach. He was a minor league coach for the Cleveland Indians from 1986 to 1991, then a member of the major league coaching staff in 1992 and 1993. Adair was with the San Diego Padres organization in 1994, then joined the Detroit Tigers in 1995. He was a AAA pitching coach and minor league pitching coordinator, then was a big league coach from 1997 to 1999. From there he moved to the Atlanta Braves for 4 years.

Adair spent 2003 as the pitching coach for Toronto's Double-A affiliate in the Eastern League before being named Minor League Pitching Coordinator for the Texas Rangers.

On December 3, 2008 Adair was named Major League Pitching Coach for the Seattle Mariners, returning to the organization that drafted him, under new manager Don Wakamatsu.

Adair is the nephew of former big leaguer Art Fowler and a cousin to Wayne Tolleson and Mike Tolleson. He primarily wore number 24.