 After retiring from active play in January 2013, he was named a scout by the Los Angeles Dodgers for the season.Mahay was drafted as an outfielder in the 18th round of the Major League Baseball Draft in by the Boston Red Sox out of South Suburban College, a junior college in South Holland, Illinois, where he both pitched and played center field.When the 1994–95 Major League Baseball strike lasted into spring training the following year, Mahay was one of the replacement players called up by the Red Sox.