Alan Trammell
Alan Stuart Trammell ( born February 21, 1958 in Garden Grove, California ) is a former American professional baseball player and active coach.
From 1977 to 1996 he played shortstop for the Detroit Tigers. Trammell, nicknamed " Tram ", had a successful playing career with the Tigers. Highlights here of winning the World Series in 1984 and the division title in the American League East were in 1987. Particular strengths of Trammell were his good range and strengths the Double Play, which were mainly due to the unusually high accuracy of his throws.
After the end of his active career in 2003 Trammell was the Tigers until 2005 as a team manager. Currently, Alan Trammell "bench coach" at the Arizona Diamondbacks.
Playing career
The Early Years
Trammells career began when the Tigers farm team in Montgomery, where he was employed in the Southern League. He also denied the first game along with Lou Whitaker, who was to remain for many years teammate of Trammell. Both together made their debut in the MLB on September 9, 1977 at Fenway Park. This was the beginning of the first of a total of nineteen seasons in which Trammell and Whitaker wore the same jersey.
In 1980, Trammell was, thanks to his defensive performance and a " batting average" of .300, first launched to the All -Star Game. The honor of playing for the American League Allstars should still be given to him five more times. His final breakthrough came Trammell then in the 1984 season, where he. Batting average of .314 with a, 14 home runs, 66 runs batted in and 30 stolen bases, was one of the outstanding players of the season Consequently, he won the MLB Comeback Player of the Year Award.
Trammell and Whitaker occurred during the 1983 season also as guest stars in the television series Magnum, pi on the side of Tom Selleck on. Selleck was born in Detroit, played the protagonist of the series as professing Tigers fan.
The 1984 season
Trammell and his teammates delivered in 1984 from a dream season that was crowned with the victory of the World Series. Although Trammell suffered over the entire season with tendonitis in the shoulder and 43 games of the regular season, missed it debuted at number five in the " batting average" and was eighth in the statistics of " on base percentage". In the series for the title of American League against the Kansas City Royals Trammell reached a " batting average" of .364 and scored a homerun and three "runs batted in ". In the World Series against the San Diego Padres he scored two home runs in Game 4, with which he almost single-handedly decided the game. Nine of his 20 " at bats" in the World Series were " on base ". Detroit won the series with 4-1 and Trammell was elected to the World Series MVP.
Glory Years 1985-1988
After two successful years Trammell in 1985 hampered by some injuries and did not get beyond a " batting average" of .258. After the season, he had to have surgery on his left knee and right shoulder. The following season he came back, however, very successful and managed to both 20 home runs and 20 stolen bases to achieve in a season. In addition, he presented with 75 RBI on a new personal record.
1987 Trammell could again extremely improving and reached in September an outstanding batting average of .416, including six home runs and 17 RBI. He had large share of the title in the American League East, the Tigers have won the. His season earnings of 200 hits and 100 RBI in a season was a tiger player's best performance since the success of Al Kaline in 1955.
Injuries and End of career
In the following years, Trammell was hit by an injury after another and thereby worsened increasingly, both while batting, as well as on the field. In 1991, he came only to 101 games due to knee and ankle injuries. In the following season in 1992 did only 29 bets before he broke his right ankle and expose the rest of the season had to. After he had recovered from the injury, he managed not to come across as a regular shortstop in the squad him. In 1996, he retired from active competition.
In his 20 -year career, Trammell achieved a batting average of 28.5 %, including 185 home runs, 1003 RBI, 1231 runs, 2365 hits, 412 doubles, 55 triples and 236 stolen bases in 2293 games. Following the active career Trammell acted as a striking coach at Detroit in 1999 and 2000 to 2002 as first -base coach for the San Diego Padres before he returned to Detroit as a manager.
Manager career
Alan Trammell took over the managerial positions in the Tigers on 9 October 2002, after the team was one of the worst in the Major League Baseball. In his first season as a manager in 2003 the Tigers lost 119 games in the American League, and thus represented a negative record. In the 2004 season, the team was able to, not least because of the good managers work to improve on a record of 72-90. This was the biggest improvement success of a team in the American League for 16 years. In 2005, the result remained almost unchanged with a record of 71-91. During his time as manager of the Tigers Trammell brought it accordingly to an overall record of 186-300.
After the Tigers were able to achieve no positive record for three consecutive years Trammell was released on 3 October 2005 and replaced by Jim Leyland. The offer to stay the Tigers as an assistant refused Trammell.
In October 2006, he signed with the Chicago Cubs, where he worked as a bench coach for the 2007 season. This was seen as a step back towards a future manager post in the MLB observers. Following the resignation of manager Lou Pinella in August 2010, the Cubs do not appointed Trammell, but the former Bench Coach Mike Quade as the new manager. Trammell left the Cubs to the end of the season and was taken on October 26, 2010 by the Arizona Diamondbacks as the new bench coach under contract.
Career Highlights
- 6 times All-Star (1980, 1984/85, 1987/88, 1990)
- 4 times Gold Glove ( 1980/81, 1983/84 )
- 3 times in the top 10 MVP ( 1984, 1987 /88)
- 5 times in the top 10 of the Statistics " batting average" ( 1983/84, 1987/88, 1990)
- A series of 21 games with at least one hit during the 1987 season
- A series of 20 games with at least one hit during the 1984 season
- MLB Comeback Player of the Year (1983 )