Located just north of downtown Nashville, state-of-the-art First Tennessee Park opened in 2015. With a stunning backdrop of the Nashville skyline, the ballpark has become the crown jewel of a rapidly-growing Germantown neighborhood. Through the first three years, the Sounds have welcomed over 1.6 million fans. The 593,679 fans that entered the ballpark in 2017 was just shy of a franchise record. Groundbreaking...... January 27, 2014 Team Store Square Footage...... 2,990 Opening...... April 17, 2015 Club Lounge Square Footage...... 5,080 Cost...... $47 Million Scoreboard Dimensions...... 142’ x 55’ Acreage...... 10.8 Acres Home Clubhouse Square Footage...... 5,086 Concourse...... 360-degree circulation with Visiting Clubhouse Square Footage.....2,154 concourse width varying from 24’ to 35’ Playing Surface...... Natural - Bermuda Design Architect...... Populous Tifway 419 Capacity...... 10,000 Club-Level Suites...... 18 Dimensions: Field-Level Suites...... 4 Left-Field Line...... 330’ Batting Cages...... 2 Left-Center Field...... 386’ Bathrooms...... 16 Center-Field...... 403’ Points of Sale...... 76 Right-Center Field...... 388’ Concession Stands...... 6 perma- Right-Field Line...... 310’ nent stands plus additional portable stands LARGEST CROWDS IN FIRST TENNESSEE PARK HISTORY 1. 11,764 - July 3, 2017 vs. Oklahoma City 2. 11,759 - July 3, 2016 vs. Oklahoma City 3. 11,684 - June 25, 2016 vs. Omaha 4. 11,678 - June 17, 2017 vs. New Orleans 5. 11,596 - July 7, 2017 vs. Memphis 6. 11,552 - June 16, 2017 vs. Iowa 7. 11,484 - July 8, 2017 vs. Memphis 8. 11,482 - June 5, 2015 vs. Memphis 9. 11,193 - August 12, 2017 vs. Memphis 10. 11,144 - August 26, 2017 vs. Round Rock *55 sellouts in First Tennessee Park history* 1 FRONT OFFICE 2 the media relations media the department at 615-515-1107. Further information about Nashville the Sounds obtained can be from Bureau. information provided by Reference MLBAM, and Baseball Sports Elias Pacific League Coastand its clubs fortheir contributions. Statistical Traughber,Bill Mike Strasinger, Nashville Metro Archives and the Athletics thanks to Oakland the Special relations media department, relationsmedia department, past &present. Wassel. Team record information compiled by members of Sounds the by Seely, Chad and Doug Scopel Mark Meyers. Cover by design Alex The 2018 NashvilleSounds Media Guide waswritten and designed Miscellaneous Information...... 214-218 Pre-Game Field Schedule...... 213 Media Information...... 210-212 ...... 205-209 History...... 203-204 All-Time Roster...... 182-202 Retired Numbers...... 180-181 Postseason History...... 178-179 History...... 155-177Recordsand Sounds History...... 148-154Baseball Nashville Review...... 136-147in 2017 Directory...... 135 League International Information...... 134 League Coast Pacific Opponents...... 118-133 Players...... 18-115 Staff...... 12-17 Field Office...... 3-11 Front First Tennessee Park...... 1 TABLE OFCONTENTS Printed by Printing, Allen Nashville, Tennessee. FRONT OFFICE 3 615-690-4487 @nashvillesounds First Tennessee Park First Tennessee Nashville, TN 37219 Nashville, 19 Junior Gilliam Way 19 Junior www.nashvillesounds.com www.nashvillesounds.com Baseball Club Nashville Sounds Baseball Adam Nuse...... General Adam ManagerNuse...... General & COO Doug Scopel...... Vice President of Operations Bryan President Mayhood...... Vice of Sales Amy Schoch...... Vice President of Fan Relations Owners Ward...... Owner Frank Masahiro Honzawa...... Owner Management Executive FRONT OFFICE 4 Buddy Yelton...... MascotCoordinator Buddy Production Digital & Video of Sharpnack...... Director Erik Marketing Wassel...... DirectorAlex of Entertainment Hegley...... DirectorMary of MARKETING &PROMOTIONS Bivens...... ActivationRandi Associate Seasonal Shrader...... PremiumExecutiveAndrew Account Sales TaylorFisher...... Business Development Soto...... BusinessDevelopmentKevin Broadcasting Hem...... Director of Jeff Advertising Madar...... Directorof Ryan Danielle Gaw...... Director Activation of CORPORATE PARTNERSHIPS &BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT Guido...... GuestAllie Relations/Season Ticket Activation Associate Representative Sales Calvin...... Inside Anton NicholasJodway...... Inside Representative Sales Coordinator Graves...... MembershipKyle Services ExecutiveHunter...... Account Harrison Executive Siegel...... Account Sierra Mahalie Shorrock...... Account Executive Valentine...... AccountExecutiveMandy Coordinator Alvarez...... TicketOperations Irving CJ Berthelsen...... Ticket Operations Ticket Operations Fazio...... DirectorCooper of TICKET OPERATIONS&SALES Manager Montgomery...... Accounting Halie Walker...... DirectorBarb Finance of FINANCE/HUMAN RESOURCES Fan Relations Amy Schoch...... Vice President of Sales of Mayhood...... VicePresident Bryan Operations of President Scopel...... Vice Doug COO & Nuse...... GeneralManager Adam Honzawa...... Owner Masahiro FrankWard...... Owner EXECUTIVE MANAGEMENT Mike Faso...... VideoProducer Mike JoeMasterson...... GraphicDesigner RV Oliver...... Creative Assistant Wong...... PromotionsShannyn ActivationCoordinator & STAFF DIRECTORY FRONT OFFICE 5 STAFF DIRECTORY STAFF Deric Grooms...... Warehouse Manager Deric Grooms...... Warehouse Pete Sarantakos...... Concessions Manager Assistant Woodlee...... Administrative Sue Wade Becker...... Merchandise Manager Becker...... Merchandise Wade CENTERPLATE & Beverage Manager, Food Keitel...... General Dave Manager, & Food Brooke Beverage Kelley...... Accounting Chef Jerry Infantino...... Executive Shay Shay Adams...... Assistant Groundskeeper Groundskeeper BryceHuebner...... Assistant Seasonal Caleb Associate Miles...... Operations Seasonal Associate Ian Dyer...... Operations RETAIL Katie ofWard...... Director Retail OPERATIONS of Wells...... Director Stadium Jeremy Operations Brunk...... StadiumManager Operations Austin Stadium Operations Manager Caleb Yorks...... Assistant Groundskeeper Thomas Trotter...... Head MEDIA & COMMUNITY RELATIONS & COMMUNITY MEDIA ofChad Seely...... Director Media Relations Manager Relations Destiny Whitmore...... Community Seasonal Relations Associate Mark Meyers...... Media Associate Seasonal Relations Doheny...... Community Allie Associate Seasonal Media Holman...... Social Abby Photographer Strasinger...... Team Mike FRONT OFFICE 6 ville. Christopher andTimothy, alllive anddaughtersDanielleKatie inNash from 27to43inage. Heandhiswife, Renee, live inNewYork. Ward’s sons Ward andhasfourchildren, two ismarried sonsandtwo daughters, ranging ence. baseball, Ward’s hobbiesmay beasvaluable toMFPashisreal estateexperi experienceplaying fantasy tween collectingcardsandhismorethan25yearsof thegame. Be hiscareerandlove of of promises tobealogicalprogression Ward isalongtimebaseballcardcollector. AcquiringtheNashvilleSounds owner MasahiroHonzawa MFPReal tostart Estate. OperatingOfficerfrom1995to2008beforeleaving withfellow Sounds Chief decreased debtandincreasedprofits. Ward worked atHiro Real EstateCo. as thecompanyaround.Hedid,andoverto turn thenext13years, Ward steadily hisfirstresponsibilities atHiro Real Estate was todraftabusinessplan One of Hiro RealEstate Co. OperatingOfficerof asChief serve year,remained atHRO until1995.That anofferto heaccepted International was themostactive high-riseofficebuildingdeveloper inManhattan. Ward hisatKenneth Leventhal &Companythat HRO aclientof International, of FinancialOfficer In 1982,Ward was hired asManagingDirectorandChief New York Cityofficein1973. restructuring.into corporate Ward moved toKenneth Leventhal &Company’s & Young) inColumbus, Ohio, in1971asanauditor, andheeventually moved by Kenneth college Leventhal &Company(nowWard Ernst was hiredoutof Columbus, Ohio. as a great baseballtown. as agreat He isexcited market thatNashvilleisagrowth forrealestateandhas promise Ward fell inlove withNashville duringtripstovisithisdaughteratVanderbilt. OWNERSHIP an accounting degree fromCapitolUniversityan accountingdegree in fromhighschool, Wardafter graduating earned intheU.S.After serving inKorea shortly Army commercialrealestatecompany. large avery of operatingofficer York City, aschief andserving developing high-riseofficebuildingsinNew organizations, corporate includes restructuring estate, Ward’s businessexperience of widerange involvement inreal With morethan40yearsof Baseball toNashville. and baseball.Allthreehave ledhimandMFP Frank Ward hasthreeloves: hisfamily, realestate FRANK WARD -OWNER - - - FRONT OFFICE 7 - MASAHIRO HONZAWA - OWNER - OWNER HONZAWA MASAHIRO company’s Japanese operations. operations. Japanese company’s and operated a family has owned The Honzawa 7 million-square-foot warehouse owned, privately estate in New real and extensive business in Japan Chicago and Los Angeles. City, York in graduated University from Keio Honzawa his education in the continued in 1991 and Tokyo from Columbia where he earned an MBA U.S., MFP President Masahiro Honzawa ran the U.S. the U.S. ran Masahiro Honzawa MFP President ofoperations Co. Estate Hiro Real his family’s the in also active was Honzawa from 1995 to 2008. Coast League President Branch Rickey OWNERSHIP Pictured L-R: Former Nashville Mayor Karl Dean, Frank Ward, Masahiro Honzawa and Pacific and Pacific Masahiro Honzawa KarlPictured L-R: Former Nashville Mayor Ward, Dean, Frank MFP Real Estate. MFP Real for business traveling and enjoy reside in New York Makiko, He and his wife, and pleasure. Before he took the helm of Hiro Real Estate’s U.S. operations in 1995, he in Before he took the helm of U.S. Estate’s Hiro Real where he met his future MFP terned with Arthur York, Andersen LLP in New Estate the partner who was on the Hiro Real Posner, business partner Steve account for Arthur Andersen at the time. started Estate and interest in Hiro Real sold his 2008, Honzawa In January University in 1998. University FRONT OFFICE 8 His familyincludeshiswife, Sarah,andthreechildren: Lucy, Lola,andHank. ter’s administrationfromWichita StateUniversity. insports degree Oklahomaandamas in businessadministrationfromtheUniversitydegree of ontheALSNashvilleboard.Heholdsabachelor’sCouncil andisalsoserves DirectorsfortheNashvilleSports theBoardof memberof Nuse isacurrent and the2002OklahomaCityRedHawks, bothinthePacific CoastLeague. withthe2001Roundal baseballasamarketing andsalesintern Rock Express his career in profession Sales beginning in 2009. Nuse began Vice President of EXECUTIVE MANAGEMENT throughout his tenure and most recently served as throughout histenure andmostrecentlyserved salesroles inavariety2013, whereheserved of theTexas Leaguefrom2004- Christi Hooksof TexasThe native was previouslywiththeCorpus cer sinceJanuary 2014. OperatingOffi andChief as theGeneralManager the Midwest League, whereheserved Hot Rods of Nuse cametoMusicCityfromtheBowling Green day-to-day operationsrelatedtotheballclub. OperatingOfficerand oversees all &Chief ager astheSounds’GeneralMan Adam Nuseserves ADAM NUSE-GENERAL MANAGER&COO - - - - FRONT OFFICE 9 - - AMY SCHOCH - VP OF FAN RELATIONS OF FAN SCHOCH - VP AMY DOUG SCOPEL - VP OF OPERATIONS OF - VP DOUG SCOPEL BRYAN MAYHOOD - VP OF SALES - VP MAYHOOD BRYAN Amy Schoch joined the Sounds in January of joined the Sounds in January Schoch Amy promoted and was 2015 to her current role of Vice President of in September Relations Fan of 2015. strategies and programs She is responsible for developing that make She also hires all game- fan experience at the ballpark a top priority. staffday human resources efforts. and assists in the club’s served Amy as the Director ofPrior to the Sounds, Operations Ticket where she managed all aspects of IronPigs, at the Lehigh Valley the She also spent four well as customer service office as and IT. ticket for the Hartford WolfPack. seasons working of is a graduateA native of Schoch Pennsylvania, Reading, Alvernia degree in marketing. where she earned a bachelor’s University including team travel, affiliate relations, clubhouses, and acts as the clubhouses, relations, affiliate including team travel, and baseball personnel umpires, primary visiting teams, contact for season. throughout the playing his current promoted to 2015 after He was position in January previously serving of a variety the Sounds’ most recently as roles, Vice President of Along Baseball Operations & Communications. Doug served point person for as the Sounds’ with team ownership, the design, project management, and construction teams during the ofplanning and development Park, state-of-the-art First Tennessee 2015. opened in April which Doug Scopel, who joined the Sounds in February 2000, oversees the in February who joined the Sounds Doug Scopel, 2000, oversees and stadium operations, baseball operations, relations, media & public groundskeeping departments for the team. The 2017 season marks his 19th in . Scopel directly managesall baseball operations facets for the Sounds, Bryan, a native from Rockport, Texas, holds a bachelor’s degree in holds a bachelor’s Texas, from Rockport, Bryan, a native Christi. A&M University-Corpus sports management from Texas Bryan manages Mayhood all aspects of focusing on all sales, ticket and managing the Sounds’ sources while developing revenue ticket sales team. Bryan 2016 from Corpus Christi, Texas, joined the Sounds in August where he served as the Director of Operations for Islanders Ticket since December Christi A&M University-Corpus Athletics at Texas 2014. with the Corpus Bryan in college worked athletics, Prior to working Christi Hooks of League from 2007 to 2014. He started the Texas his way and worked with the Hooks as a group sales account executive up to Director of Sales & Services. Season Tickets EXECUTIVE MANAGEMENT EXECUTIVE at more than 700 professional sports clubs in minor league and independent sports. Cucamon he servedPrior to arriving relations assistant for the Rancho in Nashville, as a media/community ga (Cal.) Quakes. He resides Scopel earned in Milwaukee. a journalism degreeA Pittsburgh native, University from Marquette Bella, and son, Milo. daughter, Michelle, in Nashville with his wife, Scopel was honored by Minor League News as the 2006 P.R. Director of the Year, receiving the coveted Ral of Director the coveted receiving the Year, Minor League News as the 2006 P.R. honored by Scopel was that is presented to the top media relations director selected from more than 800 people working phie Award

10 FRONT OFFICE nalism and is originally from Herndon, Virginia. nalism andisoriginallyfromHerndon, University fromLiberty withabachelor’sMeyers graduated inbroadcastjour degree Network.Sports He alsospentover Flames ayearasthestudiohostandboardoperatorforLiberty newsanchor,ternoon andworked withadvertisers toproduceandvoice commercials. two live talkshows, afill-inco-host, was theaf astheproducerof where heserved in broadcast journalism andisoriginallyfromSussex,Wisconsin. in broadcastjournalism Wisconsin-Whitewater withabachelor’s degree fromtheUniversitySeely graduated of 2011. of tions. working Hebegan inprofessionalbaseballwiththeDaytona Cubsinthesummer BroadcastingandMediaRela theMidwest LeagueastheDirectorof LumberKings of efforts, teamtravel, andbaseballoperations. Seelyalsospenttwo yearswiththeClinton fortheRenomunications allcommunications Manager Aceswherehemanaged COMMUNICATIONS duction Manager attheVirginiaTalkduction Manager RadioNetwork asaPro Prior tohistimeinNashville, Meyersserved 2013. ken CollegiateBaseballLeagueinthesummerof theCalRip Bravesbaseball was withtheHerndon of Carolina Leagueduringthe2016season.Hisfirstjobin theCleveland Indiansinthe vanced-A affiliateof Meyers worked forthe , theAd tasks. gameday roster sheets, mediarequests, andavariety of notes, mediarelations includinggame lineupand of Media Relations Associate, Meyersassistsin allaspects Mark MeyersjoinedtheSoundsinMarch 2017.Asthe Prior tojoiningtheSounds, astheCom Seelyserved needs.gameday themediawiththeir During theseason,Seelysupports theteam’s publicationsandwebsite. content of andhandlingmediarequests baseball information, co-managing theclub’s socialmediaefforts, facilitating releases, day pressbox managinggame operations, He’s responsibleforwriting anddistributingpress 2016. Relations inNovember of Media Directorof roleof was promotedtohiscurrent Chad SeelyjoinedtheSoundsinNovember 2015and MARK MEYERS-MEDIA RELATIONS ASSOCIATE CHAD SEELY -DIRECTOR OFMEDIA RELATIONS ------CHAD SEELY - DIRECTOR OF MEDIA RELATIONS

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