10:39AM Wednesday
March 13, 2013

TEMPE, Ariz. -- A second player from the Angels 2002 World Series championship team has joined the head coaching ranks, though not quite at the level of Darin Erstad, who is in his second season at the University of Nebraska.

Jarrod Washburn, the ace of the Angels title team, recently took over as the baseball coach at Webster High School, the left-handers alma mater in the tiny Wisconsin town (population 643) he grew up in.

Theyve had four coaches in the last four years, said Washburn, who is in Angels camp this week as a guest instructor. Since I retired, Ive been working with the youth program, and the first kids I began working with are in eighth grade now. I thought they needed some stability in the program.

Washburn, now 38, retired after a 2009 season in which he went a combined 9-9 with a 3.78 earned run average for the Seattle Mariners and Detroit Tigers. He spent his first eight seasons in Anaheim, going 75-57 with a 3.93 ERA, including an 18-6 record and 3.15 ERA in 2002.

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