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.