MAJOR LEAGUE COACHING CAREER
Is in the sixth season of his second stint as the White Sox bullpen catcher ... also held the position for five
seasons from 1995-99 ... worked as a scout for the White Sox covering Southern California in 2000-01 ... operated his own batting cage business from 2002-05.
PLAYING CAREER
Hit .247 (319-1,292) with 38 home runs and 143 rBi in 509 games over eight major-league seasons with St.
Louis (1984), Minnesota (1985-87), the Yankees (1987), White Sox (1988), cleveland (1989) and Detroit (1990-
91) ... doubled in his first major-league at-bat with the Cardinals on 6/9/84 at Montreal ... was named the Topps
all-rookie catcher in 1985 after hitting .300 with nine homers and 41 rBi with the Twins ... was traded to the
Yankees for Joe Niekro on 7/6/87 ... was traded by the Yankees with Dan Pasqua and Steve Rosenberg to the
Sox in return for Rich Dotson and Scott Nielsen on 11/13/87.
MISCELLANEOUS/PERSONAL Married Rose ... has four children: Mark, Ashley, Nicole and Rico ... graduated in 1979 from Nogales High School in La Puente, calif., where he was an All-America linebacker in football ... his brother, Bobby, was a pitcher in the Oakland A's organization ... is one of five players in major-league history with a palindrome as his last name.
