Bourne Braves Baseball - Cape Cod Baseball League West Division

2008 Coaching Staff

Harvey Shapiro - Field Manager

Harvey is returning for his sixth season as manager of the Bourne Braves. He has over 30 years of baseball coaching experience at the college level, including stints at Schenectady County Community College, Springfield College, Bowdoin College and the University of Hartford. Harvey has been a coaching mainstay in the prestigious Cape Cod Baseball League for more than a decade. He is the all- time wins leader in Bourne. Last year, Harvey posted his 102nd victory as the Braves skipper and his 214 Cape League career wins, place him ninth on the all-time list.

In 2007, Harvey led Bourne to their third western division regular season title in five years. In 2005 and 2003, Harvey managed the Bourne Braves to the Western Division Playoff Titles and led the team to their first Cape Cod League playoff finals in 2003. In 2005, Bourne received the Commissioner's Cup. This award recognizes the extraordinary accomplishments of an individual franchise.

As the manager of the Falmouth Commodores from 1994-1998, Harvey led the Commodores to a divisional regular season championship in 1994 and the playoff finals in 1996. Harvey was the Cape Cod League Manager of the Year in 1996. Before managing Falmouth, he was an assistant coach at Wareham and Yarmouth-Dennis.

Harvey managed the West squad in the 1995, 2004, and 2006 Cape League All-Star games and will again be the manager in the 2008 Cape Cod League All-Star game. He has had the privilege of coaching a number of major leaguers, including Justin Maxwell, Micah Owings, Darin Erstad, Adam Kennedy, Eric Milton and Jeff Weaver, who have played for him in the Cape Cod Baseball League.

Harvey also has international ties, having served as the Dutch National Baseball Coach for three years, and he coached in two world championships in Cuba and Holland. He has conducted clinics in Zimbabwe, South Africa, Holland, Germany, and the Netherlands Antilles. Harvey is also a published author on baseball and has served on various collegiate and international committees.

Harvey is a graduate of the University of Connecticut where he played baseball and earned a bachelor's degree in accounting, and he holds a master's degree in physical education from Springfield College.

Brian Pugh - Pitching Coach

Brian Pugh returns for his fourth season as pitching coach for the Braves in 2008. He also serves as the head instructor for the Braves Baseball Camps.

His coaching career includes stints at Cumberland County College (NJ), The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey, and Wilmington College (DE). In 2003, he broke into the Cape League as the Pitching Coach with the Hyannis Mets. During the summer of 2004, he served as the Assistant Coach for the Riverpoint Royals of the New England Collegiate Baseball League (NECBL). In that time, twenty-two of the players he has tutored have gone on to sign professional contracts, including three first round draft picks.

When he is not on the Cape, Coach Pugh is employed as an Elementary Physical Education teacher at Townsend Elementary School in Townsend, Delaware. He is also a pitching instructor at MapleZone, an indoor training facility in Boothwyn, PA

Ed Marko - Assistant Coach

bio to come

Kyle Padgett - Assistant Coach

Kyle Padget will be a familiar face to Braves fans as he played here in the summer of 2004. Kyle played third base and hit .239 in 40 games he appeared in for Bourne. Kyle comes to Bourne after completing his first year as a volunteer assistant coach at William & Mary.

Kyle finished his career at William & Mary with a .288 batting average, 18 home runs, 138 RBI and 132 runs scored. He ranks ninth on the program’s all-time list for games played (196) and 10th in games started (178). Padgett’s best season came as a senior when he hit .311 with nine home runs, 52 RBI and 46 runs scored.

After a stellar career at the College, Padgett was drafted by the Florida Marlins in the 18th round of the 2005 MLB Draft. After playing most of the 2005 season with the Gulf Coast League Marlins, he spent the majority of the following season with the Jupiter Hammerheads of the Florida State League. Padgett was a member of the Washington Wild Things of the Frontier League during the summer of 2007.

A native of Needham, Mass., Padgett graduated from the William & Mary with a bachelor’s of science degree in kinesiology.