2012 Media Guide - MLB.com - Colorado Rockies

Zach Wilson
Assistant Director - Player Development
Zach Wilson joined the Player Development Department in September, 2011.
Originally hired in January of 2002, he joined the front office in the Scouting
Department in April of 2003 and was promoted to Assistant Director of Scouting
on January 1, 2011, after serving as Manager of Scouting since 2006.
In his current role, Wilson, 33, assists in all aspects of Player Development,
including the management of the day to day operations and staff members, as well
as evaluating players within the system. In his previous role, Zach supervised all
amateur scouting personnel, managed day to day operations of the Scouting
Department, organized the First-Year Player Draft and served as the area scout for Colorado and Wyoming.
A former second baseman, Wilson was a Junior College All-American as a freshman at Vincennes
University in 1997. He played two years at Vincennes (1997-98) and then two years at Indiana-Purdue
University at Fort Wayne (1999-2000). He earned his Bachelor’s Degree in Business from Indiana University.
Born and raised in Fort Wayne, IN, Zach attended Northside High School in Fort Wayne where he
was first-team all-state in baseball. He, his wife, Jenny, and their daughter, Jadie, reside in Denver.
Pat Daugherty
Special Assistant to the General Manager
Pat Daugherty joined the Rockies in September of 1991 and served as the
club’s first scouting director until 1999. He moved into his current role in 2000. This
year marks his 38th season in professional baseball. In 2005, The Scout of the Year
program named Pat as its Midwest Region Scout of the Year.
As scouting director, Daugherty’s staffs helped draft players such as Todd
Helton and Jason Jennings. Pat came to Colorado after six seasons as Montreal's
scouting supervisor. In 1990, he also managed the club’s New York-Penn League
affiliate. He was the head coach at Indian Hills Community College in Centerville,
IA for 17 years. In 1981, the Montreal Expos named him Field Director of Player Development. Pat won
more than 500 games at IHCC and the school’s diamond is named after him.
His pro career began in 1972 as manager at Cocoa Beach in the Gulf Coast League. In 1998, the
American Baseball Coaches Association inducted him into its Hall of Fame. He's also a member of the
Simpson College Hall of Fame, the Iowa Coaches Hall of Fame and the National Junior College Hall of
Fame. Daugherty has a degree from Simpson and a Master's from Drake University.
He and his wife, JoAnn, have four children: Mary Beth, Ann, Peggy and Mike.
Dave Holliday
Special Assistant to the General Manager
Dave Holliday begins his 19th year with the Rockies, his fifth as a Special
Assistant to the General Manger.
Holliday, 56, had been the organization’s National Cross-Checker/Special
Assignment Scout for 13 seasons. In 2002, he received the Herb Hippauf Scouting
Award, an honor given every year by the Rockies’ scouting department in dedication
of Herb Hippauf, a Rockies scout who passed away in 1995.
Prior to joining the Rockies in 1994 he was an area scout for Pittsburgh from
1990-93. He also served as an assistant coach at Oklahoma State (1981-88), his
second stint with OSU, after receiving his first assistant coaching position there in 1977. At Yavapai JC he
was an assistant coach in 1979-80. From there, Dave spent one year as the head coach at Murray State JC.
A 1973 graduate of Uniontown (PA) High School, Dave attended Grand Canyon University, earning a
B.S. in Physical Education and an M.S. in Exercise Physiology.
Nick Piburn
Manager - Communications / Public Relations
Nick Piburn, 27, begins his sixth season with the Rockies, and third season
in his current role of Manager. Piburn was the PR intern in 2007, and returned to
the Rockies in June, 2008 after spending six months as an intern and coordinator
in the Texas Rangers PR department. Piburn was the coordinator of
Communications/PR from June 2008-May 2010 prior to his current position.
In addition to acting as a liaison between the team and media, Piburn manages
the release of club information on a day-to-day basis through team game notes,
press releases, social media, the yearly information guide and statistical analysis.
A native of Colorado, Piburn received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Technical Journalism from Colorado
State University in 2006. Nick and his wife, Nikki, were married in June 2009 and reside in Denver.
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