The Lowell Spinners are a Short-Season A minor league baseball affiliate of the Boston Red Sox.

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History

Founded in 1996 after Clyde Smoll moved the Elmira Pioneers to Lowell, Massachusetts, the Spinners play in the New York - Penn League, which has a Short-Season A classification with 76 games a year. The Spinners play 38 of the 76 games at their home park, Edward A. LeLacheur Park, in Lowell, near the Merrimack River. The official mascots of the Spinners are The Canaligator, Alligator, and Millie-Gator.

In 2005, the Spinners offered to pay for the uniforms to all Little Leagues in New England so that they would change all teams named "Yankees" into "Spinners". ^[1]

In 2007 WLLH 1400 A.M. ("Boston's" ESPN Radio affiliate) was the flagship of Lowell Spinners baseball, after several years on Lowell talk station WCAP. As of 2008, Spinners games are back on WCAP. ^[2]

On September 1st 2008, the Spinners reached the NYPL (New York-Penn League) playoffs for the first time capturing the Stedler Division title.

As of the conclusion of the 2008 Spinners season, the franchise had sold out the past 346 games dating back to prior decade.

Spinners alumni

• Luis Alicea (Manager)
• Clay Buchholz
• David Eckstein
• Jacoby Ellsbury
• Adam Everett
• Lew Ford
• Casey Fossum
• Shea Hillenbrand
• Corey Jenkins
• Jed Lowrie
• Mike Maroth
• Justin Masterson
• David Murphy
• Jonathan Papelbon
• Hanley Ramirez
• Anibal Sanchez
• Kevin Youkilis

Current coaching staff

• Manager Gary DiSarcina
• Coach Tom Goodwin
• Pitching coach Walter Miranda
• Hitting coach Luis Lopez

2009 Roster

Players				Coaching staff
Pitchers 18 Drake Britton † 21 Daniel Buller 19 Yeiper Castillo 46 Stephen Fife 30 Seth Garrison 33 Joseph Guerra † 32 Alex Hale † 36 Mitchell Herold -- William Latimer(baseball) † 28 Michael Lee (baseball) † 44 Scott Lonergan  7 Dennis Neuman 45 Stolmy Pimentel 38 Bryan Price  6 Jorge Rodriguez(baseball) 47 Robert Romero 20 Charlie Rosario 31 Hunter Strickland 39 Kyle Weiland 40 Armando Zerpa † disabled list ‡ temporary inactive list * On Boston Red Sox 40-man roster updated 2008-09-01		Catchers 26 Tim Federowicz 37 Rafael Gil (baseball) 24 Ryan Lavarnway Infielders 14 Darren Blocker 25 DeShaun Brooks 12 Ricardo Burgos 22 Ryan Dent  2 Zach Gentile  3 Derrik Gibson  5 Jonathan Hee 41 Casey Kelly 15 Will Middlebrooks Outfielders 10 Ronald Bermudez 17 Mitch Dening 16 Peter Hissey 35 Wilfred Pichardo		Manager 33 Gary DiSarcina Coaches 11 Luis López (infielder) (Hitting) 43 Walter Miranda (Pitching) 23 Tom Goodwin (Coach)

References

1. Lowell Spinners trying to Eliminate Yankee teams in Youth Baseball
2. Spinners radio broadcast returns: The entire 2008 season to be broadcast on the new 980 WCAP Radio