Mike Aldrete
| Mike Aldrete | |||
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| Oakland Athletics – No. 14 | |||
| Outfielder / Coach | |||
| Born: January 29, 1961 Carmel, California |
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| MLB debut | |||
| May 29, 1986, for the San Francisco Giants | |||
| Last MLB appearance | |||
| September 29, 1996, for the New York Yankees | |||
| MLB statistics | |||
| Batting average | .263 | ||
| Home runs | 41 | ||
| Runs batted in | 271 | ||
| Teams | |||
Michael Peter Aldrete (born January 29, 1961) is a former first baseman/outfielder in Major League Baseball and is currently the first base coach for the Oakland Athletics.
Aldrete was a four-year letterman at Stanford University, where he received a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Communication . He is a member of Delta Tau Delta International Fraternity. From 1986 through 1996, Aldrete played for the San Francisco Giants (1986–88), Montreal Expos (1989–90), San Diego Padres (1991), Cleveland Indians (1991), Oakland Athletics (1993–95), California Angels (1995–96) and New York Yankees (1996). He batted and threw left-handed. Chris Berman of ESPN referred to him as Mike "Enough" Aldrete.
Aldrete's best season was 1987 when he hit .325 with 51 runs batted in (RBI), 50 runs, 116 hits and 18 doubles, all career-highs.
Aldrete's teams made the playoffs twice. The Giants reached the 1987 National League Championship Series and he was a member of the 1996 World Series champion Yankees.
Since 2001, Aldrete has maintained a role in professional baseball as a coach. After three years in the minors in the Arizona Diamondbacks chain, he has been a first base coach for the Seattle Mariners (2004) and served as the hitting coach for the Diamondbacks (2005–06). Aldrete served as assistant hitting coach for the St. Louis Cardinals since 2008[1] and was the bench coach for the Cardinals.[2] until leaving for the Oakland Athletics on October 27, 2014.[3]
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- Career statistics and player information from Baseball Reference, or Fangraphs
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- The ESPN Baseball Encyclopedia – Gary Gillette, Peter Gammons, Pete Palmer. Publisher: Sterling Publishing, 2005. Format: Paperback, 1824pp. Language: English. ISBN 1-4027-4771-3
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St. Louis Cardinals assistant hitting coach 2008–2011 |
Succeeded by John Mabry |
| Preceded by | St. Louis Cardinals bench coach 2012–2014 |
Succeeded by TBA |
| Preceded by | Oakland Athletics bench coach 2015 |
Succeeded by Mark Kotsay |
| Preceded by | Oakland Athletics first base coach 2016 |
Succeeded by Incumbent |
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