The guests have been announced for the 4th Annual Hillsboro Hops Fund Banquet on January 26, 2017. It will be your first opportunity to meet the new field staff for the coming season as manager Shawn Roof, pitching coach Mike Parrott, hitting coach Franklin Stubbs and coach Jorge Cortes will all be in attendance. Additionally, three members of the 2014 Northwest League Championship team, pitchers Jared Miller and Zac Curtis, and catcher Elvin Soto, will return to Hillsboro to speak. Separate question and answer panels will be held for the coaching staff and former players.

Roof will be making his managerial debut this season after serving as the fourth coach last season with Class-A Kane County. He played six years of professional baseball in the Detroit and Minnesota organizations, reaching Triple-A in 2010 with Toledo.

Parrott returns to Hillsboro for his second year as pitching coach. While in command of the staff last season, the Hops finished third in the NWL in team ERA. Parrott pitched for five seasons in the major leagues with the Baltimore Orioles and Seattle Mariners.

Stubbs joins Hillsboro after spending last season as hitting coach with the Rookie-level Missoula Osprey. He played ten seasons in the major leagues with the Dodgers, Astros, Brewers and Tigers and was a member of the 1988 World Series Champion Dodgers.

Cortes worked as a coach last season for the Diamondbacks’ Dominican Summer League affiliate. He spent 16 seasons playing professional baseball with the Pirates, Astros and Cubs organizations.

Petrick, a native of Hillsboro, returns for his fifth season with the team as a consultant. He is the only person to have worn a Hops uniform in every year of the team’s existence. He was a second round draft choice of the Colorado Rockies out of Glencoe High School in 1995, and spent parts of five seasons in the majors with the Rockies and the Tigers.

Miller was a member of the 2014 and 2015 NWL Champion Hillsboro Hops. He was the starting pitcher for the NWL in the 2015 NWL-Pioneer League All-Star Game in Spokane. In 2016, he exploded onto the scene, moving up four developmental levels before starring in the vaunted Arizona Fall League after the regular season.

Curtis was a member of the 2014 NWL Champion Hops. In 2016, he became the first ever former Hop to play for the Arizona Diamondbacks when he made his major-league debut April 30 against the Colorado Rockies. He was just the second-ever former Hop to make it to the majors. He was traded to the Seattle Mariners in November.

Soto was a member of the 2014 NWL Champion Hops. He made the 2014 NWL All-Star Team and was a key member of the inaugural 2013 team, as well as the first-ever championship team. He is now a member of the Colorado Rockies organization.