Las Vegas Aviators® professional baseball team of the Pacific Coast League, Triple-A affiliate of the Athletics, announced today, in conjunction with the A’s Communications Department, that Fran Riordan will return for his eighth season as manager for the A’s Triple-A affiliate for the 2025 campaign and his seventh season (including 2020) with the Aviators. Riordan is the 25th manager in the history of the Las Vegas franchise (1983 – 2019, 2021-24; 41 seasons). Riordan served as manager for the A’s Triple-A affiliate in Nashville during the 2018 campaign. He is a two-time Pacific Coast League Manager of the Year (2019 & 2023).
The Aviators coaching staff was also announced as Paul Abbott and Don Schulze were each named pitching coach; Brian McArn returns as hitting coach and Kevin Kouzmanoff was named assistant hitting coach. Dave Comeau returns as athletic trainer; Jake Routhier returns as athletic trainer and Steven Thayer returns as sport performance coach.
Riordan (pronounced REAR-den), 49, has compiled 24 seasons overall in professional baseball and has been a member of the Athletics organization for the past 10 seasons (2015-24).
He has compiled an overall managerial record over 23 seasons of 1,309-1,271 (.507). He ranks eighth among active leaders in minor league managerial wins (entering the 2025 season).
Triple-A Las Vegas: He has a five-year record of 368-346 (.515) and is Las Vegas’ all-time leader in managerial wins.
“I’m really excited to start another season of Aviators baseball,” Fran Riordan said. “Our expectations are really high this year and our goal is to bring a PCL Championship to the passionate and deserving fans of Las Vegas!”
In 2024, the Aviators compiled an overall record of 74-75 (.497) and finished in fourth place in the Pacific Coast League West Division.
In 2023, he was named PCL Manager of the Year for the second time in four seasons and led Triple-A Las Vegas to an overall record of 75-74 (.503) and finished in third place in the PCL West Division.
In 2022, the Aviators compiled an overall record of 71-79 (.473) and finished in third place in the PCL West Division. In 2021, he guided the Aviators to an overall record of 65-61 (.516) in Triple-A West (Western Division) and finished in third place. In 2020, with the Minor League Baseball season canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Riordan worked with the Athletics’ 60-man player pool at the team’s alternate training site located in San Jose, California.
In 2019, he was named Pacific Coast League Manager of the Year and led Triple-A Las Vegas to the second-best record in the 16-team PCL (83-57, .593) and the Aviators captured the Pacific Southern Division Championship. Las Vegas returned to the playoffs for the first time since 2014 and lost to Sacramento, 3-games-to-2, in the conference championship series. The 83-57 record marked a single-season franchise record for winning percentage at .593 (140-game season).
In 2018, he made his Triple-A debut as manager with the Nashville Sounds and compiled an overall record of 72-68 (.514) and finished in second place in the American Southern Division to the PCL and Triple-A National Champion, the Memphis Redbirds. Nashville compiled a PCL-best 15-game winning streak from July 29 – August 14.
In 2017, he compiled a record of 67-71 (.486) with Double-A Midland and his squad captured the Texas League Championship. The prior two seasons, he was the skipper of Single-A Beloit of the Midwest League.
Before joining the Athletics organization, Riordan spent four seasons as manager of the Florence Freedom of the Frontier League (2011-14). He led the team to two playoff berths and is the all-time Frontier League leader in wins with 625. He was a 2014 Frontier League Hall of Fame inductee. Prior to his time with Florence, he managed the Northern League’s Lake County Fielders (2010) and Kalamazoo Kings for six seasons (2004-09), leading the Kings to the 2005 Frontier League title. He also served as player-manager in the Frontier League from 2000-02, leading the Richmond Roosters to back-to-back-league championships in 2001 and 2002.
The Virginia Beach native played seven seasons of professional baseball as a first baseman/outfielder (1997-2003) after playing college baseball at Allegheny College in Pennsylvania.
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