Kevin Kennedy (baseball)

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Kevin Kennedy
Los Angeles, California
, U.S.
Bats: Right
Throws: Right
MLB statistics
Games managed582
Managerial record309–273
Winning percentage.531
Teams

Kevin Curtis Kennedy (born May 26, 1954) is an American former

Fox Sports' baseball coverage. He was given the nickname "the Skipper" by Fox Sports due to his prior managerial career. Kennedy joined the Tampa Bay Rays broadcast team for the 2009 baseball season as a replacement for Joe Magrane
.

Biography

Early life and career

Born in Los Angeles, Kevin Kennedy graduated from

Woodland Hills, California in 1972, where he was a classmate of Robin Yount.[1]

He attended

1976 Major League Baseball Draft
.

Kennedy was a career

farm systems. In 510 career games, he hit .238 with 12 homers and 178 RBI. While with the Pawtucket Red Sox in 1981, he was the only player from either team to not play in the longest professional baseball game of all time versus the Rochester Red Wings.[citation needed
]

He retired from playing after the 1983 season and became a manager in the Dodgers farm system for the

Bakersfield Dodgers (1987), San Antonio Missions (1988) and Albuquerque Dukes
(1989–1991).

He was subsequently the bench coach for the Montreal Expos during the 1992 season.

Managerial career

Texas Rangers

He then was hired to manage the Texas Rangers for the 1993 season after the firing of Bobby Valentine and Toby Harrah. Kennedy was let go following the strike-shortened 1994 season after posting only a 52–62 record (even though, at the time of the strike, it was good enough for first place in the division) and was replaced by Johnny Oates.

Boston Red Sox

For the 1995

Cleveland Indians in the playoffs. Kennedy was fired following the 1996 season
after going from a .597 to a .525 winning percentage.

Managerial record

Team Year Regular season Postseason
Games Won Lost Win % Finish Won Lost Win % Result
TEX 1993 162 86 76 .531 2nd in AL West – – – –
TEX 1994 114 52 62 .456 1st in AL West – – – –
TEX total 276 138 138 .500 0 0 –
BOS 1995 144 86 58 .597 1st in AL East 0 3 .000 Lost ALDS (CLE)
BOS 1996 162 85 77 .525 3rd in AL East – – – –
BOS total 306 171 135 .559 0 3 .000
Total[2] 582 309 273 .531 0 3 .000

Broadcasting career

In 1997 Kennedy joined

FOX Sports Radio, and was a regular co-host of Dodgers Live on Prime Ticket
at this time.

In 2009 Kennedy took a job as a part-time television analyst for the Tampa Bay Rays, sharing the duty with former Rays pitcher Brian Anderson. Kennedy and Anderson both replaced Joe Magrane, who is now a part of the MLB Network. Kennedy returned to the Dodgers' postgame show for the 2009 postseason.

In October 2010 it was announced that Kennedy would not be returning to the Rays' broadcast crew in the 2011 season.[3]

Kevin co-hosted Power Alley with Jim Duquette on Sirius XM's MLB Network Radio on Sirius 209/XM 89 from 10 am – 2 pm EST in 2011.

From 2014 through 2018, Kennedy teamed with Rick Monday to call select games on the Dodgers Radio Network and occasionally co-hosted the team's Dodger Talk radio post-game show.

Other media

In October 2019, Kennedy started doing podcasts of The Kevin Kennedy Show[4] with Rich Grisham of Out of the Park Baseball and launched an official website where he teaches baseball instruction videos, has a blog, and hosts Q&A with fans.

References

  1. ^ "Achievements". Taft Charter High School. Retrieved November 7, 2013.
  2. ^ "Kevin Kennedy". Baseball Reference. Sports Reference. Retrieved September 29, 2015.
  3. ^ Jones, Tom (October 5, 2010). "Brian Anderson to become Tampa Bay Rays' full-time TV analyst". St. Petersburg Times. Archived from the original on March 3, 2016. Retrieved October 6, 2010.
  4. ^ "The Kevin Kennedy Show". kevinkennedyshow.libsyn.com. October 31, 2019. Retrieved April 27, 2020.

External links

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