Mike Borzello

Mike Borzello is a Major League staff assistant for the Chicago Cubs. He is the godson of former Major League manager Joe Torre, who was friends with Borzello's father. Borzello's sister, Keri, was an NCAA Women's College World Series participant in 1994, as a catcher and first baseman for the Missouri Tigers. She later transferred to UCLA after a career ending rotator cuff injury.

Mike Borzello is a graduate of Taft High School in California and California Lutheran University. He played catcher in minor league baseball for the St. Louis Cardinals farm system from 1991–94, never getting above class A.

After his playing career ended Torre offered him a job with the New York Yankees in 1996 as bullpen catcher and batting practice pitcher, where he earned a championship ring for the 1996 World Series.

When Torre left the Yankees for the Dodgers in 2007, he brought Borzello with him as a bullpen catcher. In 2011 he left the Dodgers to join the Cubs as a staff assistant, working with the catchers and scouting.

Early in his life, a then-12-year-old Borzello had been serving as a batboy for the Atlanta Braves - at that time, managed by Torre - and found himself in the middle of a series of brawls between the Braves and the visiting San Diego Padres on August 12, 1984 at Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium. "When the fans started throwing stuff and jumped onto the field, I was like, 'OK, I gotta get out of here,' Borzello later said.

External links

• Baseball-Reference Minors page
• Baseball Cube stats