COACHING CAREER
• Named the Padres hitting coach on 11/1/11, he enters his second season in the Padres organization, serving as hitting coach and interim manager at Single-A Lake Elsinore in 2011...helped lead the Storm to their first California League championship since 2001 as the team scored 828 runs to rank second among all Single-A clubs.
• In his first campaign as hitting coach for the Padres, guided the staff to a second-half finish that included a .262 (661-for-
2525) team batting average with 346 runs scored in the club's final 75 games (4.6 runs per game)...the 346 runs in the
second half ranked fifth-most among National League clubs after the All-Star break.
• Prior to joining the Padres, served as hitting coach and manager at the Double-A level as well as one season as hitting coordinator in the Seattle Mariners' organization.
PLAYING CAREER
• Originally signed as an 11th-round pick in the 1987 First-Year Player Draft by the Boston Red Sox, he hit .243 (457-for-1,883) with 90 doubles, three triples, 91 home runs, 292 RBI and 260 runs scored in 610 games over parts of eight Major League seasons.
• Played with the Red Sox (1990-92), Padres (1993-94, 97), Houston Astros (1995), Oakland A's (1996) and St. Louis Cardinals (1997).
• Had his best season for San Diego in 1993, hitting .240 (111-for-462) with 34 home runs, 20 doubles, 100 RBI and 67 runs scored en route to being named the club's MVP.
PERSONAL
Phillip Alan Plantier...since the end of his playing career, earned a bachelor's degree in social science from California State University San Marcos...resides in Poway, Calif., with his wife Jennifer, sons Ryan and Tyler and daughter Emily.
