Elswhere in the Mariner system

A former Rattler manager is moving up to Tacoma.

M's get new skippers for minor-league teams

Daren Brown is the newest manager in the hot seat for the Tacoma Rainiers, the Mariners' Class AAA team.

With Seattle's top organizational brass away in Naples, Fla., attending the annual general managers' meetings, the team named Brown as the Rainiers' third field boss in 12 months.

Brown, 39, spent the final weeks of the season with the Mariners as a first-base coach and now assumes a role held in 2005 by Dan Rohn and in 2006 by Dave Brundage — dismissed by the organization in September and October, respectively.

Brown was the Rattler manager in 2003.

The other new skipper in the story is West Tennessee's Eddie Rodriguez.