Steve Roadcap, manager

Eastern Pennsylvania native Steve Roadcap is the 23rd manager in the Reading Phillies’ 43-year history. 

Born in Pottsville, Roadcap grew up in nearby Spring Glen, on the Dauphin and Schuylkill County line. He graduated from Upper Dauphin High School. Roadcap now resides in West Virginia.  He officiates high school basketball in the offseason.  

Roadcap has been in player development for 22 seasons with the Cubs, Mariners and Phillies. He has spent 17 seasons as a manager, four as coordinator and one as a pitching coach. He joined the Phillies in 2006 as the manager at Batavia. He spent 2007-2008 with Low-A Lakewood in the South Atlantic League. He led the BlueClaws to the best overall record (80-60) in the SAL Northern Division in 2008 following a 69-65 campaign in 2007. He has helped develop many future Major Leaguers, owns a career record of 985-1,019 (.493), qualified for his league’s playoffs four times and led Inland Empire (SEA) to the California League Championship in 2003. 

A catcher during his playing days, Roadcap played in the Cubs Minor League system from 1982-86 making it as high as Triple-A. He played for Pittsfield in the Eastern League in 1985 and briefly again in 1986. He was a teammate of Reading Baseball Hall of Famer and former R-Phils manager Gary Varsho with Pittsfield. Roadcap has followed Varsho once before. He took over as manager of the Wisconsin Timber Rattlers (Seattle, Midwest League) in 1999, after Varsho left to begin his three-year stint as the R-Phils skipper.