Torrington Titans offer Alex Rodriguez assistant coaching position Torrington Titans offer suspended New York Yankees player Alex Rodriguez staff coaching job

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TORRINGTON >> The Torrington Titans of the Futures Collegiate Baseball League have announced they will be offering an assistant coaching position to recently-suspended New York Yankees third baseman Alex Rodriguez.

General manager Joey Abis said that they haven’t made any contact to Rodriguez or his representation, but they have an offer ready.

“We can offer him $5,000 for the season,” said Titans General Manager Joey Abis. “The Donut Station has offered him free coffee and donuts for the entire summer.”

Rodriguez is currently suspended from baseball for the entire 2014 season, 162 games, and any possible playoff games the Yankees play in.

“I see him being more a hitting coach,” said Titans Manager Dan McNamara, who saw a lot of positive possibilities if Rodriguez were to join his staff.

“I’ve been in professional baseball for the past six years as a player and a coach. I can teach the players about getting there. A-Rod can show them they way to the big leagues, it’s priceless.”

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Since 2008, the Torrington Titans or Twisters have had 13 players drafted or move on to play professional baseball, most notably Washington Nationals starting pitcher Stephan Strasburg, who played in Torrington during the summer of 2007, when they were known as the Twisters.

More recently, Conor Bierfeldt, a 2009 Torrington high school graduate finished his first season of professional baseball this past summer after being drafted by the Baltimore Orioles in the 29th round of last year’s draft. Beirfeldt played for the Titans in 2012.

McNamara also sees this as a good opportunity for Rodriguez to help clean up his image.

“To be honest, there is a lot of bad going on in his life and we’re trying to give him some good,” he said.

There would be benefits for the city as well said Abis.

“Torrington is phenomenal, having him around would be great for local businesses, people from all over the country would come out,” he said.

Even though Rodriguez has been linked to steroids recently and even admitted to doping during a three-year period starting in 2001, Abis guarantees that steroids won’t be apart of his team.

“No way steroids will be in our clubhouse or in our league,” he said.

Last week, the Long Island Ducks of the Atlantic League of Professional Baseball said that if Rodriguez wants to play baseball in 2014, they will leave their door open for him. He also has been offered a job to play for the San Rafael Pacifics, who play in the independent Pacific Association of Professional Baseball.

Under the collective bargaining agreement between MLB players and the league, a player cannot play baseball for any other team while under contract with a team. Then again, some MLB players expressed a desire to kick Rodriguez out of the union.

“It would be nice seeing him play for the Ducks,” said McNamara. “But I would much rather see him coach with the Titans.”

Since Rodriguez will be able to play again in the MLB in 2015, McNamara is very willing to let the slugger, who has hit 654 home runs during his 20 big league seasons, work out and train with the Titans players to stay in shape.

“He can take BP with Group A if he wants,” said McNamara. “He can hit bombs off the warehouse in left field.”

A call to Rodriguez’s agent Dan Lozano and the MVP Sports group was not returned.