Brett Jodie is entering his fifth season as manager of the Lincoln Saltdogs, after leading the Saltdogs back to the playoffs in 2022. 

Jodie, 48, has spent 13 years with the Somerset Patriots of the Atlantic League, including seven years as the club’s manager from 2013-2019. Jodie won an Atlantic League championship in 2015 and made the playoffs in six of his seven seasons at the helm. In his managerial career, Jodie is 744-617 and has made the playoffs in seven of his eleven seasons. 

A former big-league pitcher, Jodie appeared in games for both the New York Yankees and San Diego Padres in 2001, after he was selected by the Yankees in the sixth round of the 1998 MLB Draft. Jodie made eight career MLB appearances — the pinnacle of a highly successful professional baseball career, both as a player and coach. 

Jodie was born March 25, 1977 in Columbia, SC and pitched collegiately at the University of South Carolina. This is his first stint in the American Association after a successful run with the Patriots, where he also had to manage with experimental rules that Major League Baseball had implemented into the Atlantic League as part of an agreement between the two entities.