Tony Medina

Tony Medina

• School Cornell College
• High School St. Patrick High School

Biographical Information

Tony Medina played catcher during his four years at Cornell College. He graduated in 2016 with a degree in kinesiology and exercise science. Medina worked a variety of jobs while going through college and afterwards.

Medina's baseball related jobs include working as an assistant coach at St. Patrick High School from 2017-2020. In 2017, he was a player development technology apprentice with the Quad Cities River Bandits in the Houston Astros minor league system. He joined the Kansas City Royals as a video intern for the Lexington Legends in 2018 and the Wilmington Blue Rocks in 2019. Medina moved into a quasi coaching/analytics role in 2020 as the development coach for the Northwest Arkansas Naturals before the minor league season was cancelled due to COVID-19.

In 2021, Medina joined the Bryant & Stratton College Bobcats as an assistant coach. At the end of that year's college season, he was hired as a data apprentice for the Texas Rangers, working with their Rookie ball affiliate ACL Rangers. He moved to the independent leagues in 2022 as the hitting coach for the Schaumburg Boomers of the Frontier League. He is still with the Schaumburg Boomers as an assistant coach and baseball analytics coordinator as of January 2024.

Related Sites

• Royals announce 2020 Minor League coaching staffs/coordinators
• Tony Medina Joins Schaumburg Coaching Staff