Ensberg set to return to lead Biscuits in 2022

Morgan Ensberg is schedudled to return as the Biscuits field manager in 2022. (Tim Gayle)

STAFF REPORT

The Montgomery Biscuits have announced the field/clubhouse staff for the upcoming season.

The name at the top is the same but many of the others have changed.

For his third season, Morgan Ensberg returns to manage the Biscuits. But he will have newcomers Jim Paduch, pitching coach, Wuanner Rincones, hitting coach, and Sean Smedley as bench coach.

James Ramsdell will return as athletic trainer, and James McCallie will serve as conditioning coach.

Ensberg led Montgomery, to the 2021 Double-A South Championship Series, where the Biscuits lost in five games. He led the team in 2019 to a franchise-record 88 wins, earning Southern League Manager of the Year honors.

The 88 wins were the second-most among all minor league teams behind Class-A Delmarva (90) of the Orioles organization.

Ensberg joined the Rays after managing for two seasons in the Astros system, with Class-A Buies Creek in the Carolina League in 2018 and Short-A Tri-City in the New York-Penn League in 2017.

Paduch was a non-roster invite by the Rays to major league spring training in 2013. He spent parts of three seasons (2011-13) in the Rays organization, appearing in 59 games (41 starts) between Montgomery and Triple-A Durham. He was a 12th-round selection of the Reds in the 2003 June Draft and spent four seasons in independent leagues prior to signing with the Rays in 2011.

Rincones worked 10 years (1996-2005) at the Chicago White Sox Venezuelan Academy as a hitting coach, infield instructor and scout. He played five years (1991-95) as an infielder in the White Sox system, reaching as high as Class-A South Bend of the Midwest League in 1995.

Smedley was signed by the Rays as a non-drafted free agent following the 2013 June Draft. He played parts of three minor league seasons in the Rays organization, with the GCL Rays in 2013 and Class-A Bowling Green from 2014-15.

Ramsdell completed athletic training internships with the Rays in 2012-13 and finished his master’s degree in sport management from East Carolina University in 2013, where he worked with the men’s and women’s swimming and diving, softball, and track and field teams. He earned a Bachelor of Science degree in athletic training from Salem State University (Mass.) in 2010.

McCallie joined the Rays organization in 2018. He served as the Bowling Green Hot Rods strength and conditioning coordinator in 2018-19 before joining Charleston in 2021.

The regular season opens April 8 at Mississippi before the home opener on April 12 against Tennessee.