Al Pedrique

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Al Pedrique
Shortstop
Born: August 11, 1960 (1960-08-11) (age 49) Aragua State, Venezuela
Batted: Right	Threw: Right
MLB debut
April 14, 1987 for the New York Mets
Last MLB appearance
June 21, 1989 for the Detroit Tigers
Career statistics
AVG	.247
HR	1
RBI	36
Teams
New York Mets (1987) Pittsburgh Pirates (1987-1988) Detroit Tigers (1989)

Alfredo José Pedrique García (born August 11, 1960 in Aragua State, Venezuela), best known as "Al Pedrique" (pay-DREE-kay), is a former Major League Baseball shortstop and right-handed batter who played for the New York Mets (1987), Pittsburgh Pirates (1987, 88) and Detroit Tigers (1989). Pedrique is currently the Houston Astros bench coach.

Playing career

Pedrique was signed by the Mets in 1978 and made his debut nine years later. After five games with the team, he hit .301 with the Pirates in his rookie season, but only managed a .188 cumulative batting average after that.

Pedrique was a career .247 hitter with one home run, 36 RBI, 32 runs, 18 doubles, one triple, and five stolen bases in 174 games.

Managerial and coaching career

After retiring, Pedrique managed in the minors for the Diamondbacks, Astros and Royals organizations from 2000-02. He came back to the majors in 2003 as a third base coach for the Diamondbacks. In 2004, he began the season as manager of the Tucson Sidewinders, the Diamondbacks Triple-A affiliate, but he was hired as manager of the Diamondbacks on an interim basis when Bob Brenly was fired in July. Pedrique compiled a 22-61 record. He was replaced by Wally Backman, and then Bob Melvin, at the end of the season.

Pedrique created some controversy as manager when he ordered the Diamondbacks pitching staff to intentionally walk Barry Bonds throughout an entire three-game series against the San Francisco Giants from September 10-12, since Bonds was on the verge of hitting his 700th career home run, which Pedrique did not want to happen at Bank One Ballpark. This move contained no strategy, and many later viewed it as an example of professional cowardice.^{[citation needed]}

He was hired as the Houston Astros bench coach on October 31, 2009, after previously serving as Minor League Field Coordinator & third base coach for the Astros.^[1]

Managerial records

References

See also

• List of players from Venezuela in Major League Baseball

External links

• Career statistics and player information from Baseball-Reference, or The Baseball Cube
• RBI Baseball wiki