Athletes - Joe Kerrigan

Home > Listing Index > Athletes > Joe Kerrigan

	Athletes - Joe Kerrigan

Joseph Thomas Kerrigan (born November 30, 1954 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is a former relief pitcher and longtime pitching coach in Major League Baseball. He was briefly the manager of the Boston Red Sox in 2001, and is currently the bullpen coach for the New York Yankees.

Kerrigan attended Temple University and was selected in the first round of the 1974 amateur draft by the Montreal Expos. His major league debut was on July 9, 1976. He was traded to the Baltimore Orioles following the 1977 season, and played with the Orioles until 1980.

His coaching career began in 1983 when he was named the bullpen coach for the Expos. From 1987 to 1991, he was the pitching coach for three different Montreal farm teams, and in 1992, became the pitching coach of the Expos. From 1997 to 2001 he filled the same roll for the Red Sox under manager Jimy Williams, and worked with 1999 and 2000 Cy Young Award winner Pedro Martinez. In August 2001, after Williams was fired, Kerrigan was named the interim manager; he lead the team to a 17–26 record and was replaced by Grady Little before the start of the 2002 season. He later served as pitching coach for the Philadelphia Phillies and was hired as the bullpen coach for the New York Yankees in November 2005.

Sources

Associated Press, "Red Sox Replace Williams with Kerrigan", August 17 2001
Baseball Library:

[ Visit the complete Wikipedia entry for Joe Kerrigan ]

This page is based on the copyrighted Wikipedia article Joe Kerrigan; it is used under the GNU Free Documentation License. You may redistribute it, verbatim or modified, providing that you comply with the terms of the GFDL.

Searches on eBay