Ralph Treuel
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Ralph Martin Treuel (/ˈtrɔɪɛl/ TROY-el;[1] born June 7, 1955 at Elyria, Ohio) is an American professional baseball coach and a former minor league baseball pitcher. He has spent all or parts of three seasons in Major League Baseball on the coaching staff of the Detroit Tigers (1995) and Boston Red Sox (2001 and 2006). As of 2019, he is the Red Sox' minor league pitching coordinator (logistics), his 24th consecutive season in the Boston organization.
Playing career[]
Treuel has spent his 48-year professional baseball career with the Tigers and Red Sox. After attending Lorain County Community College, he signed with Detroit in 1974 and pitched for nine seasons in the Tiger farm system, including service with the Triple-A Evansville Triplets in 1978–80. He compiled a 53–43 won–loss mark with a 4.11 earned run average in 193 minor league games.[2] In between, he pitched for the Leones del Caracas champion team of the Venezuelan Winter League during the 1979–80 season, and made a start in the 1980 Caribbean Series.[3][4]
Coaching and managerial career[]
In 1983 Treuel became the pitching coach for the Rookie-Level Bristol Tigers of the Appalachian League. In later assignments, he served as Detroit's roving minor league pitching instructor (1985–90), pitching coach of the Triple-A Toledo Mud Hens (1991–92) and field coordinator of player development (1993–94). In 1995, Treuel was Sparky Anderson's pitching coach with the MLB Tigers, but left the Detroit organization following that campaign.
In 1996, he joined the Red Sox as pitching coach of the Double-A Trenton Thunder, and was promoted to his first term as minor league pitching coordinator in 1999. From September 2001 through spring training of 2002, he was the Major League pitching coach of the Red Sox, but he was reassigned in favor of Tony Cloninger when Grady Little replaced Joe Kerrigan as manager on the eve of the 2002 season. In 2003–05, Treuel served as manager of the Rookie-level Gulf Coast Red Sox, then began his second term as Boston's roving minor league pitching coordinator in 2006. However, Treuel interrupted that assignment on an emergency basis to work as the Red Sox' MLB bullpen coach for four months of the 2006 season when surgery sidelined pitching coach Dave Wallace until August 8.[5] In 2019, he became one of two pitching coordinators in the Boston system as head of logistics, with former MLB hurler Dave Bush named to a similar role in charge of pitching performance.[6] He continued that role into the 2021 season.
Treuel was inducted into the Elyria Sports Hall of Fame in 1990.
References[]
- ^ Detroit Tigers 1979 Press-TV-Radio Guide (pronunciations on page 38). Retrieved June 7, 2020
- ^ Baseball Reference
- ^ Pura Pelota : Venezuelan Professional Baseball League statistics
- ^ Nuñez, José Antero (1994). Serie del Caribe de la Habana a Puerto La Cruz. JAN Editor. ISBN 980-07-2389-7
- ^ Boston Red Sox 2009 Media Guide, page 523
- ^ Boston Red Sox 2019 Media Guide, pp. 441-442
External links[]
- Career statistics and player information from Baseball-Reference (Minors)
- All Baseball
- Boston Globe 1
- Boston Globe 2
- 1955 births
- Living people
- Baseball coaches from Ohio
- Baseball players from Ohio
- Birmingham Barons players
- Boston Red Sox coaches
- Bristol Tigers players
- Clinton Pilots players
- Detroit Tigers coaches
- Evansville Triplets players
- Knoxville Smokies players
- Lakeland Tigers players
- Leones del Caracas players
- American expatriate baseball players in Venezuela
- Major League Baseball bullpen coaches
- Major League Baseball pitching coaches
- Minor league baseball managers
- Montgomery Rebels players
- People from Elyria, Ohio