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Coach Rance Mulliniks

Rance Mulliniks is in his
fourth year as the Giants hitting instructor. Before joining the COS Giants Rance served as the the hitting
instructor for the Golden West baseball team that won the Valley Championship in
2004.
Rance has over
twenty-five-years of professional baseball experience, fifteen years as a Major
League player and five years as a hitting instructor.
During his major league
tenure, Rance was known as a disciplined hitter. Rance was named in the
September 1999 Baseball Digest as "the player John Olerud learned the most
from." In the same issue Jeff Kent (former National League MVP) identified Rance
as "one of the players who taught me to be a professional at the game of
baseball." While playing at the Major League level Mulliniks achieved several
accomplishments. He was a member of the 1992 World Series Champion Toronto Blue
Jays, a member of the 1980 American League Champion Kansas City Royals, he hit
.290 or better in five seperate seasons and topped .300 in three seasons, and a
career best .324 batting average. Rance holds the single season fielding
percentage record for third baseman (.975) with the Toronto Blue Jays of which
he played eleven seasons. He is also the Toronto Blue Jays all time pinch hit
leader with 59. He was named as the utility player on the Blue Jays 25th
Anniversary All Time team.
Rance and his wife Lori have
two children, Seth and Whitney. Rance has two other children, Ryan and Merissa.
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