Michael Richard Adair (born January 19, 1958 in Spartanburg, South Carolina) is a former minor league baseball pitcher who is currently the pitching coach for the Seattle Mariners Major League Baseball club. He is the nephew of former MLB pitcher Art Fowler.
As a player, Adair played college baseball at Western Carolina University and was drafted by the then-newly formed Mariners in the third round of the 1979 Major League Baseball Draft. Injuri...
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Michael Richard Adair (born January 19, 1958 in Spartanburg, South Carolina) is a former minor league baseball pitcher who is currently the pitching coach for the Seattle Mariners Major League Baseball club. He is the nephew of former MLB pitcher Art Fowler.
As a player, Adair played college baseball at Western Carolina University and was drafted by the then-newly formed Mariners in the third round of the 1979 Major League Baseball Draft. Injuries ended his career seven years later, having peaked at the Triple-A level.
He has held various coaching jobs since the end of his playing career, mostly as a minor-league pitching coach, with the Cleveland Indians, San Diego Padres, Detroit Tigers, Atlanta Braves, and Toronto Blue Jays organizations. He held major league coaching jobs with Cleveland and Detroit. Prior to being appointed to his current position with Seattle, Adair spent four seasons as a minor-league pitching coordinator for the Texas Rangers.
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