Longtime Atlantic League ace John Halama joins the Revs as pitching coach in 2013.  He transitions to the next phase of his baseball career after a decorated playing career that spanned parts of nine seasons in the Major Leagues, followed by stops in the Atlantic League over the last six seasons.

At age 40, Halama was still one of the league’s best last year, finishing in the league’s top five in wins with a 13-8 record, to go with a 3.09 ERA, the league’s fourth lowest, in 27 starts for the rival Lancaster Barnstormers.  He also proved to still be one of the league’s most durable, with three complete games including a nine-inning shutout on August 23 against Sugar Land, and 186.2 total innings to his credit, the second most in the league.

Halama is a 56-game winner at the Major League level, and reached double figures in wins in three consecutive seasons with the Seattle Mariners from 1999-2001.  That stretch included a career-best 14-win season in 2000, while he also won 10 games for the 2001 Mariners team that set the American League single-season wins record and tied the Major League wins record by going 116-46.  That same year, Halama fired a perfect game for the Triple-A Tacoma Rainiers, one of just eight in the history of the Pacific Coast League.