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. He served as the manager of the Sacramento River Cats of the

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, Triple-A affiliate of the San Francisco Giants of Major League Baseball.milb.com, 2015.01.14
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. The 2015 season is Mariano's 36th in professional baseball. After attending Gulf Coast Community College and Louisiana State University, he signed with the New York Yankees in August 1980 as an undrafted free agent and played six seasons of minor league baseball in the Yankees' and Baltimore Orioles' organizations, primarily as a third baseman, and batting .250. He batted left-handed, threw right-handed, stood tall and weighed . After retiring as an active player, he worked as a minor league coach, manager and roving batting instructor for the Orioles, Yankees,

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, Arizona Diamondbacks and Los Angeles Dodgers, and came to the Giants in 2005. Mariano spent seven years as the Giants' minor league batting coordinator before his appointment as manager of the Fresno Grizzlies in 2012. Mariano spent three years as skipper of the Grizzlies, the Giants' former top affiliate.Fresno Grizzlies official website
/ref> He moved to Sacramento when San Francisco took over as the River Cats' parent team from its former sponsor, the

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. He also has managed the Class A

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(1994) and

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(2001) and the Triple-A Tucson Toros (part of 1997).

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Mariano, Bob 1957 births Living people Charlotte O's players Fort Lauderdale Yankees players Gulf Coast Yankees players Minor league baseball managers Nashville Sounds players Paintsville Yankees players People from Sewickley, Pennsylvania Baseball players from Allegheny County, Pennsylvania San Francisco Giants scouts