American baseball analyst and manager
Kevin Kennedy Kennedy in 1988
Manager Born: (1954-05-26 ) May 26, 1954 (age 67) Los Angeles, California
Bats: Right
Throws: Right
Games managed 582 Managerial record 309–273 Winning percentage .531
Texas Rangers (1993 –1994 )
Boston Red Sox (1995 –1996 )
Kevin Curtis Kennedy (born May 26, 1954) is a former manager in American Major League Baseball and a former television host for 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 Taft High School in Woodland Hills, California in 1972, where he was a classmate of Robin Yount .[1]
He attended San Diego State University and was drafted by the Baltimore Orioles in the 8th round of the 1976 Major League Baseball Draft .
Kennedy was a career minor league catcher who played in the Orioles, St. Louis Cardinals and Los Angeles Dodgers 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 .[2]
He retired from playing after the 1983 season and became a manager in the Dodgers farm system for the Great Falls Dodgers (1984–1986), 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 season , Kennedy became the manager for the Boston Red Sox . He led them to their first postseason appearance since 1990, but they were swept by the Cleveland Indians in the playoffs . Kennedy was fired following the 1996 season after going from 86 to 85 wins.
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[3]
582
309
273
.531
0
3
.000
Broadcasting career [ ]
In 1997 Kennedy joined ESPN as a color analyst on the network's Wednesday Night Baseball telecasts, performing the same role on ESPN Radio 's Sunday Night Baseball in 1998 and on Fox Sports Net 's Thursday Night Baseball in 1999 and 2000. From 2001 to 2008, he was a studio analyst for baseball on Fox , teaming with host Jeanne Zelasko . He also contributed to Fox Sports Net's Best Damn Sports Show Period and hosted a radio program on 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.[4]
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 [5] 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 [ ]
^ "Achievements" . Taft Charter High School. Retrieved November 7, 2013 .
^ "Longest game in Organized Baseball history" . Baseball-Reference.com . November 30, 2015. Retrieved April 18, 2019 .
^ "Kevin Kennedy" . Baseball Reference . Sports Reference. Retrieved September 29, 2015 .
^ 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 .
^ "The Kevin Kennedy Show" . kevinkennedyshow.libsyn.com . October 31, 2019. Retrieved April 27, 2020 .
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