Former Major League baseball player Coco Crisp has been in high demand since retiring as a player. Since playing his past game for the Cleveland Indians in 2016, Crisp has served as a high school baseball coach, radio color commentator, Cerritos College baseball bench coach and has now been named the Mahoning Valley Scrappers manager. The team, which is part of a six-team MLB Draft League, will start his managerial career this summer as part of the inaugural season of the six-team MLB Draft League.

Crisp spent 15 seasons in the Major Leagues with the Cleveland Indians, Boston Red Sox, Kansas City Royals and Oakland Athletics, tallying a .265 batting average, 877 runs scored, 495 extra-base hits, 308 doubles, 57 triples and 130 home runs in 1,586 games. The Scrappers will open the 68-game season May 24 at the West Virginia Black Bears with the home opener May 26 against the State College Spikes.

Crisp joined the Falcons coaching staff for what turned out to be an abbreviated 2020 season as their bench coach. Childhood friend of head coach Vic Buttler, Crisp provided the team as aspect of the game they had not experienced. He will be back with the Falcons coaching staff when the team is back in action.

"Many of these kids didn't necessarily get the type of opportunity and looks they deserved last year because of the pandemic, so to have the MLB Draft League in place, giving players the opportunity to be seen," Crisp said in a statement.