Jordan Pacheco is coming home.
After hanging up the cleats on a 14-year professional baseball career, Pacheco on Friday was announced as the new hitting coach of the Triple-A Albuquerque Isotopes, reuniting him with Colorado Rockies organization that drafted him in 2007 after a standout career at the University of New Mexico.
It also brings the 35-year-old Pacheco back to Albuquerque, where he was a standout at La Cueva High School before gong n to become one of the most prolific players in Lobo history.
Pacheco and the Isotopes were expected to hold a formal introductory press conference on Friday afternoon at Rio Grande Credit Union Field at Isotopes Park.