Name | Joe Maddon |
---|---|
Position | Manager |
Team | Tampa Bay Rays |
Number | 70 |
Birth date | February 08, 1954 |
Birth place | Hazleton, Pennsylvania |
Bats | Right |
Throws | Right |
Stat1label | Games |
Stat1value | 833 |
Stat2label | Win-Loss record |
Stat2value | 418–415 |
Stat3label | Winning % |
Stat3value | .502 |
Teams | |
Highlights |
Joseph John Maddon (born February 8, 1954 in Hazleton, Pennsylvania) is the Major League Baseball manager for the Tampa Bay Rays.
He previously served as interim manager of the Anaheim Angels in both and . He was also a long-time bench coach for the team.
He is a former minor league catcher, who never advanced higher than A ball, which he played for four seasons. In his four seasons, he never had more than 180 at bats, and the most home runs he ever hit was three for Salinas in 1977.
He served in the Angels organization for 31 years.
Maddon was considered a leading candidate for the Boston Red Sox manager job in 2004, which went to Terry Francona. On November 15, 2005, he was hired to manage the Tampa Bay Devil Rays. His signature thick-rimmed glasses have led to giveaways featuring mock pairs, and tributes from Angels players wearing the glasses when playing against the Rays. Sportswriter Peter King once said that Maddon has an uncanny resemblance to 1930s–1960s movie star Spencer Tracy.
In 2008, Maddon led the Tampa Bay Rays to their first American League Eastern Division Title. He held a steady hand over a team of young players that were excited to win a division title over the heavily favored New York Yankees and Boston Red Sox. Many baseball fans around the world were rooting for the "David versus Goliath" story of the 2008 Tampa Bay Rays. Maddon lead the team to the franchise's first playoff win in the American League Division Series ALDS vs the Chicago White Sox by 3–1 and a thrilling 4 games to 3 triumph over the rival Boston Red Sox in the American League Championship Series ALCS. This was the first World Series appearance for the Rays, in which Tampa Bay held home-field advantage against the Philadelphia Phillies. The Phillies won the World Series by a 4–1 game score, but the Rays had gained the respect of many baseball fans. It completed a full-circle turnaround for the Rays, who had the worst record in Major League Baseball in 2007. Because of this, on November 12 of that year, he was given the American League Manager of the Year Award. He also received the Chuck Tanner Major League Baseball Manager of the Year Award.
The manager became engaged to his girlfriend of four years, law school graduate Jaye Sousoures, in June 2007 in Boulder, Colorado, on a side trip during a Rays road trip to the Colorado Rockies. He married her in November 2008. He has two children with his first wife: a daughter, Sarah; and a son, Joey. He also has two granddaughters, Tyler and Coral Ray.
Maddon volunteered his time on December 30, 2008 for a fundraiser to support the "Castle" auditorium renovations.
On May 25, 2009, the Tampa Bay Rays and Maddon agreed to a contract extension that would keep him manager of the Rays through 2012. He had been in the final year of the initial contract he signed when he first became manager of the team. The Rays stated that there was "never a question" on whether to keep Maddon or not after the conclusion of the 2009 season. Maddon was quoted as saying, "This is where I belong. This is where I want to be. I really have to use the word love when I talk about this organization."
On July 14, 2009, Maddon managed the American League All Star team to a 4–3 victory. Controversy accompanied his failure to avail himself of multiple opportunities to pick second baseman Ian Kinsler as a reserve on the team, even when Dustin Pedroia and Evan Longoria bowed out. He failed to pick him, despite Kinsler having narrowly come in second in the fan voting, the player voting, and the Sprint Final Vote competition. Instead, for example, while avoiding picking Kinsler to replace fellow second baseman Pedroia, Maddon went with one of his own, choosing Tampa Bay's first baseman Carlos Peña, who was leading the league in homers but batting .228 (and who had come in fourth in the Final Vote competition, behind Kinsler). Simlarly, a final opportunity presented itself when Longoria withdrew because of a finger infection; but again, Maddon (a former Angels coach) chose someone else as a replacement, this time Figgins of the Angels, who had come in third in the Final Vote competition (behind Kinsler).
When Major League Baseball ordered in April 2010 that managers and coaches can only wear the official team jacket or approved Majestic pullover over their jersey, and not "hoodies", Maddon complained that "It's almost like a security blanket for me. Managing without a hoodie on a cool night could be very disconcerting. Furthermore, I think it's wrong." MLB reversed their decision a few days later.
rowspan="2" | Team !! rowspan="2"|Year !! colspan="4"|Regular Season!! colspan="4"|Postseason | |||||||||
!Won!!Lost!!Win %!!Finish/Current Position!!Won!!Lost!!Win %!!Result | ||||||||||
1996 California Angels season>CAL | 1996 MLB season>1996* | 8 | 14| | .364 | 4th in AL West | – | – | – | – | |
ANA||1999* | 19 | 10| | .655 | 4th in AL West | – | – | – | – | ||
colspan="2" | ANA/CAL Total | 27| | 24 | .529 | | – || | – | – | |||
TB||2006 | 61 | 101| | .377 | 5th in AL East | – | – | – | – | ||
TB||2007 | 66 | 96| | .407 | 5th in AL East | – | – | – | – | ||
TB||2008 | 97 | 65| | .599 | 1st in AL East | 8 | 8 | .500 | Philadelphia Phillies in 2008 World Series>World Series | ||
TB||2009 | 84 | 78| | .519 | 3rd in AL East | – | –|||||
TB||2010 | 96 | 66| | .593 | 1st in AL East | 2 | 3 | .400 | Lost to Texas Rangers (baseball) | ||
65 | 56| | .537 | '''3rd in AL East | – | –||||||
colspan="2" | TB Total | 434| | 431 | .502 | – | 10 | 11 | 2008 AL Pennant | ||
colspan="2" | Total | 461| | 455 | |10|| | 11 |
| after = Mike Scioscia}}
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