LITTLE ROCK — Bill Mosiello is returning to college baseball and will be reunited with a childhood friend.
After leading the Arkansas Travelers to the Texas League North Division first-half title, Mosiello resigned as manager of the Los Angeles Angels’ Class AA affiliate to take an assistant coaching position under new coach Dave Serrano at the University of Tennessee.
With the Travelers in contention for the North Division first-half title, it was a trying week for Mosiello, who was hired in December after managing the Angels’ Class A affiliate in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, the past two seasons. He told his team he was leaving in a postgame meeting after the Travelers’ 13-3 rout at Springfield on Thursday night.
“It was the toughest week of my life, trying to win a pennant,” Mosiello said Friday. “We were trying towin. This club deserved it. We had some time to pray about it with my wife. Words can’t describe the horrible feeling I have leaving this club. Like I told them, I don’t condone leaving. You don’t leave things; you finish things. That’s part of my job as a teacher, to teach those guys that.”
The Angels announced Friday that minor league hitting instructor Todd Takayoshi will manage the Travelers beginning today until the end of July, when roving instructor Bobby Mitchell will take over for the remainder of the season.
