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Coaching Staff
Marc Deschenes, Program Director/U-15 Coach
Born in Lowell MA and a resident of Dracut MA , Coach Marc Deschenes played as a college shortstop at UMass Lowell and was drafted by the Cleveland Indians where his pitching potential was recognized and he made the transition as a professional to pitcher. In 1997, he received the prestigious Bob Feller award as the top minor league pitcher in the Cleveland Indian’s organization. He has competed professionally in the Arizona Fall League and was selected in the Rule V draft in 1998 by the Los Angeles Dodgers. He was signed by the Boston Red Sox and assigned to Portland "AA" in 2004 and after a successful season with the Seadogs he was assigned to the "AAA" Pawtucket Red Sox in 2005. Coach Deschenes has resigned with the Boston Red Sox. Coach Deschenes has provided private lessons and directed his own baseball school for a number of years and he is the Director of the Deschenes Pitching Academy offered to amateur pitchers each year. He has an avid following of loyal students he regularly instructs in pitching, hitting and fundamentals programs. |
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Click the pictures above to see Marc Deschenes with Jason Varitek!
Derek Favreau-U-13 Coach
At Tewksbury High School, Derek Favreau served as the baseball team's 2 time conference all-star where he earned the Lowell Sun all star and the MVC league MVP for 1999. At Bridgewater State College he was the 2003 team captain and became assisstant coach in 2004. He also played for the Chelmsford Merchants from 2000 to 2004, where he became the team's coach in 2004. He became coach of the Diamond Dawgs team in 2004.
Chris Farley
Chris Farley was drafted 2001 out of Mahar Regional Highschool in the 14th round by the Boston Red Sox where he spent 2001 until spring training of 2005 with the team and made it to Low A in Augusta. He got released at the end of spring training 2005. Farley then signed as a free agent with St. Louis Cardinals in 2005 and got sent to the New York Penn League. He spent most of the season there until getting a mild case of tendonitis, then got released. Chris then went to the Can-Am independent league for the rest of 2005 until 2007. In 2007, he went 8-2 with a 1.41 and got signed by the New York Yankees. Chris spent most of 2007 in the New YorkPenn league with the Staten Island Yankees. He got called up to AAA, Scranton-Wilkes Barre, to make a spot start against the Paw Sox. After, Chris became a free agent in the offseason of 2007 and signed with the Oakland Athletics. Spending 2008 with the A's, Chris moved up 4 levels. He started the season in Kane County (Low A), got promoted to Stockton a week later (High A), put up a 1.74 in 20 innings, 20 strikeouts - 4 walks, got moved up to Midland (AA) and spent most of the season here. Chris got moved up to AAA for a brief stint before getting moved back down to AA for the remainder of the season. In 2009, Chris started in Midland (AA) before getting released in June and joining the Worcester Tornadoes for the remainder of the season. Chris is looking forward to coaching with the Diamond Dawgs and at Future Stars this year.
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Scott Favreau-U-13 Coach
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Mark Rurak -U-14 Coach
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Evan Greene-U 14 Coach
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Joey Robarge-U-12 Coach
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David Pahucki-U-12 Coach
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Adam McFadden-U-11 Coach
Last Update Note: this web page last updated April 17th, 2008
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