PITTSBURGH >> Dodgers third base coach Chris Woodward had just finished his 18-year career as a player when the Seattle Mariners hired him as a coach in Sept. 2012. His first assignment was to mentor the Mariners’ instructional league players in Arizona.
One of the faces in the crowd was a 22-year-old infielder named Chris Taylor, whom the Mariners had just drafted out of the University of Virginia.
“He was one of the first players I ever coached,” Woodward recalled. “I worked with him from Day 1, basically. He was the first shortstop that I’ve ever put my hands on.