Anthony Sanders

Anthony Sanders was playing for the Tacoma Rainiers in 2000 when he joined the USA Olympic baseball team that won the gold medal at Sydney. He had been drafted out of high school by the Toronto Blue Jays in the seventh round of the 1992 Major League Baseball (MLB) Draft.

Sanders played in the minors until he came up for a brief spell with the Blue Jays in 1999 and he later played a few games in 2000-01 with the Seattle Mariners, but in all he played only 13 MLB games. In 2001 Sanders spent part of one season with the Yokohama Bay Stars in the Nippon Professional Baseball League.

Sanders became a hitting coach in 2007 with the Tri-City Valley Cats, a Colorado Rockies minor league club, serving in that role through 2012. From 2013-15 he was manager of the Grand Junction Rockies in the Pioneer League, a rookie-level league. After that he was a supervisor with the Class A Lancaster Jet Hawks. In 2019 he was named the Baltimore Orioles first base coach and was back in MLB as a coach.