Joining the Loggers staff for the first time in 2018 will be Stu Pederson who brings vast array of knowledge and experience to the dugout.  Pederson, who will serve as the Loggers hitting coach, spent 12 years in professional baseball, from 1981-1992 in the Los Angeles Dodgers and Toronto Blue Jays organizations. He was drafted in the ninth round of the 1981 MLB Draft out of the University of Southern California. An outfielder, Pederson played eight Major League games for the Dodgers in 1985, and made his MLB debut on September 8, 1985. He spent much of his professional career- parts of nine of his 12 seasons at the triple-A level. He played for five seasons with the Syracuse Chiefs in the Blue Jays farm system, becoming one of the team’s most popular players and even earning “Stu Pederson Night” in 1991. The Chiefs honored his achievements with induction into the team’s Wall of Fame in 2012.      Since the end of his playing career, Pederson has coached baseball at both the high school and summer collegiate levels. Pederson is also no stranger to the world of college summer baseball, having spent three seasons (2014-2016) as an assistant coach with the Anchorage Glacier Pilots in the Alaska Baseball League and most recently served as the field manager of the North Adams Steeplecats of the New England Collegiate League this past summer. He also coached high school baseball in California, one of the top states for prep baseball in the nation, contributing at Palo Alto and Cupertino High Schools where he helped over 100 players get drafted into professional baseball and another 150 players advance on to Division I collegiate baseball programs.