four home runs in 73 games. Before the 1987 season, Hansen joined the Seattle Mariners organization and was assigned to the Double-A Chattanooga Lookouts for the season. In 98 games, Hansen batted .281 with 94 hits, 12 doubles, one triple and five home runs. During the 1988 season, Hansen played at the Double-A and Triple-A level. First, with the Double-A Vermont Mariners, Hansen batted .301 with 31 hits, two doubles, one triple and one one home run in 34 games. With the Triple-A Calgary Cannons, he batted .250 with 39 hits, six doubles and two home runs in 51 games. During that season, Hansen's friend, Kurt Stillwell, compared Hansen to Crash Davis from the movie Bull Durham. Hansen spent his final season as a player in 1989 with the Double-A Williamsport Bills and the Triple-A Calgary Cannons. In 122 combined games between the two teams, he batted .205 with 25 hits and five doubles. Coaching career In 1992, Hansen joined the Seattle Mariners as a bullpen coach. The Mariners' team earned run average was 4.55 that season and the team went 64–98 positioning them seventh in the American League West. Hansen was fired at the end of the season along with the rest of the Mariners' coaching staff. In 1996, Hansen was hired as the manager of the Class-A Short Season Everett AquaSox in the Mariners' organization. Hansen was hired as a roving catching instructor for the Orix BlueWave in Japan's Pacific League. He re-joined the Mariners' organization in 2002 as a coach with the Everett AquaSox. Hansen managed the AquaSox for the last 28 games of the 2002 season. In 2003, he was named the Mariners' minor-league catching coordinator. On August 10, 2010, the Mariners fired members of their coaching staff, including bench coach Ty Van Burkleo, and Hansen was hired to take over that position on an interim basis. Personal Hansen was born on August 28, 1961 in Johnstown, Pennsylvania. He resides in Stanwood, Washington with his wife Lynn and their two children. Footnotes All team's listed under "as player" and "as manager" are minor league baseball teams. References General references Inline citations External links 1961 births Living people American expatriate baseball people in Japan American expatriate baseball players in Canada Baseball coaches from Pennsylvania Baseball players from Pennsylvania Calgary Cannons players Charleston Royals players Chattanooga Lookouts players Fort Myers Royals players Gulf Coast Royals players Jacksonville Suns