Another Frontier League team has switched managers before the All-Star Break and this one inadvertently affects the Crushers...Evansville fired its entire coaching staff yesterday despite winning 12-4 at All Pro Freight Stadium on Sunday night...
Wayne Krenchicki was in his second season with the Otters and finished 28-66 last year...Evansville was 15-27 this season and currently resides in last place in the West Division...In a period of just over four years, Evansville has used four managers and has fallen far from its championship season of 2006...The Otters had scheduled an announcement of a new coaching staff but as of 4:00pm on Tuesday I have not seen anything...I have Randy Gore of the Washington Wild Things on the look out for me (Washington plays at Evansville today) and will post when I find out...Lake Erie plays at Evansville for a weekend series beginning on Friday to close the first half of the season...
UPDATE: I just received a text from Randy informing me that the Otters have hired Andy McCauley to manage the team...McCauley managed in the Frontier League in 1998 and 1999, winning 54 games and a Frontier League title with the London Werewolves in 1999...He was the 1999 Frontier League Manager of the Year and again made the playoffs with London in 2000 before becoming the first Manager of the Kalamazoo Kings in 2001, posting a record of 11-39 before departing...McCauley has been in the Northern League since, managing the Kansas City T-Bones from 2007-09, and won a championship in 2008...Until the arrival of McCauley, Bill McKeon will handle the interim manager duties...I know McCauley from his days as the Manager of the Northern League's Schaumburg Flyers...
Full Story from the Evansville Courier Press
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