Norwich — It’s not just baseball players who look to move up to the major leagues after spending time in the minor leagues at the Thomas J. Dodd Memorial Stadium.

Josh Postler, 30, director of ticket operations for the Connecticut Tigers minor league baseball team, will be the new ticket operations coordinator for Spurs Sports & Entertainment, the ownership group for the NBA San Antonio Spurs, the United Soccer League’s San Antonio FC and the San Antonio Rampage, a minor league hockey team affiliated with the St. Louis Blues.

Postler will work at the AT&T Center in San Antonio, where the Spurs and Rampage play, and will coordinate ticket purchases and day-to-day operations at the AT&T Center ticket office, processing orders and serving as the ownership group’s liaison to ticket sales staff for all three teams.

“I’m going to hit the ground running,” Postler said Friday, his last day at Dodd Stadium before making the long drive to San Antonio. “Soccer season is ending, and basketball and hockey will be starting up.”

Postler said he looks at the new position as an exciting opportunity to advance his career in sports management. But he said it was hard to leave the staff at Dodd Stadium that has become like a family for the onetime college summer intern who stayed after graduation.

Postler grew up in Scotland, a 2007 graduate of Parish Hill High School. He attended Anna Maria College in Paxton, Mass., for two years before transferring to Springfield College, where he graduated in 2011 with a degree in sports management. He worked in the summer of 2011 as a summer intern at Dodd Stadium, parking cars for Tigers games and helping with whatever game-day activities Tigers’ staff needed, including joining the all hands on deck struggle to cover the infield with the rain tarp and then remove it when umpires gave the go-ahead.

He moved into the ticket office in 2012 and became box office manager and then director of ticket operations. Postler stressed how much he enjoyed working with the Tigers and under Senior Vice President C.J. Knudsen and General Manager Dave Schermerhorn.

“The experience you gain by doing all those things was invaluable,” Postler said. “The things I’ll be doing day to day, customer service, I learned here. It’s tough for me to leave this place, and the fans and the season ticket holders.”

Like a minor league baseball manager proud to see a star player move up the majors, Schermerhorn said: “We’re just incredibly proud of Josh and the incredible opportunity he has been given.”

“Josh did a tremendous job interacting with fans and ensuring the box office runs as smooth as possible,” Schermerhorn said.

The Tigers have started the process of seeking applicants to fill Postler’s position at Dodd Stadium, as the Tigers launch the busy off season of ticket sales for the Short-Season Single-A affiliate of the Detroit Tigers. The team is in the process of changing its name later this fall and will play at Dodd Stadium for at least the next 10 years under a new lease signed with the city Aug. 1.

There’s one duty at Dodd Stadium that Postler said he won’t miss:

“The tarp,” he said, “no longer having to deal with rain, really. No tarps.”

c.bessette@theday.com