Ned Yost
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Edgar Frederick Yost III (born August 19, 1954) is a former Major League Baseball catcher and manager of the Milwaukee Brewers and Kansas City Royals.
He played for the Brewers, Texas Rangers, and Montreal Expos.
Early life
Yost was born on California's North Coast in Eureka. Yost attended and played baseball at Dublin High School in Dublin, California. He had significant difficulty hitting prior to his junior and senior years, yet improved after building physical strength by working as a pot-scrubber at a Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant. After high school, Yost attended Chabot Junior College in Hayward, California, where he walked on to Chabot's baseball team after receiving no offers to play for other schools.
Personal life
Yost and his wife, Deborah, have four children and live in rural Georgia during the off-season. One of his sons, Ned Yost IV, serves as a coach for the Nashville Sounds, Class AAA minor league affiliate of the Milwaukee Brewers. Prior to becoming a coach in 2009, the younger Yost played first base for the Class-A Brevard County Manatees in 2007, his third season in the minors, hitting .248 with a .283 slugging percentage.
On November 4, 2017, Yost was in a tree stand near his home in Georgia when he fell twenty feet. He sustained a broken pelvis, and his surgeon was concerned that Yost might die from blood loss. Yost later said he was certain he would have died if he did not have his cell phone at the time of the fall. He later appeared in a television commercial for Verizon, crediting its wireless service with saving his life.
Ned Yost was a close friend with NASCAR driver Dale Earnhardt. During the 1994 MLB Strike, Yost went to work with Earnhardt’s crew for the rest of the season as a “hydration specialist”. Earnhardt went on to win his record tying 7th NASCAR Championship that year and Yost was present when it happened. Yost credits Earnhardt on his abilities to win as a manager and after his death, Yost switched to number 3 as his number with the Brewers and Royals.
Playing career
In the second round (33rd overall) of the 1976 MLB Draft, Yost was ranked twice by the Montreal Expos in the second round, but the New York Mets picked him in the first round (7th overall) of the June secondary phase. In the Rule 5 draft, he went to the Brewers on December 5, 1977.
Yost, primarily as a backup catcher for the Brewers from 1980 to 1983, then spent a year with the Rangers (1984); he played 5 games with the Montreal Expos (1985).
In a season, he had more than 242 at bats. In 605 at bats, he had a.212 batting average and.237 on-base percentage. He had a.992 field percentage (the league average was.987).
In between his playing days and coaching days, Yost had a brief career in Jackson, Mississippi.
Coaching career
Yost joined the Atlanta Braves after a brief stint in minors. He served as the Braves' bullpen coach from 1991 to 1998 and received a ring as a member of the 1995 World Series championship team that defeated the Cleveland Indians in six games. He was also a member of the 1991, 1992, 1996, and 1999 National pennant championship teams that lost each of those series to the Minnesota Twins (1991), the Toronto Blue Jays (1992), and the New York Yankees (1996, 1999). Yost served as the Braves' third base coach in 1999, a role he held until the 2002 season's end.
Managing career
Yost was named the Brewers' manager on October 29, 2002, after replacing Jerry Royster. Yost was hired by National League manager Tony La Russa to be a member of his coaching staff for the 2005 MLB All-Star Game.
Yost's tenure oversaw the Brewers' revival, taking them from losing records to champion contender. However, his teams were plagued by inconsistency, most notable during the 2007 season and a significant advantage over the 2008 wild card race. In 2007, Yost came in second place in the annual poll for Manager of the Year. Although he wore No. 2, he wore No. 10. 5 on his jersey as a Brewers coach. Dale Earnhardt, a retired NASCAR racer and baseball fan, was on his jersey in honor of his close friend, deceased NASCAR racer, and baseball fan Dale Earnhardt.
Yost's leadership came late in 2007. During the season, the Brewers had an 8+1 2 game division advantage over the Cubs by June 23, but the Cubs had to fall behind the Cubs in second place, finishing two games behind the Cubs. Yost's bullpen, grouping policies, and bench leadership were all blamed. In the last week of the season, he was also kicked out of three games. However, general manager Doug Melvin revealed Yost's return to the 2008 season.
With 12 games remaining in the regular season, he was fired as boss on September 15, 2008. The Brewers were still in the playoff race but had lost 11 of their last 14 games. Yost's career ended with a 457-512 record. Dale Sveum, the third base coach, was named his interim replacement and served until the end of the season, leading the Brewers to clinch the wild card position on the first day of the season since 1982, when they made it to the World Series for the first time. In the 2008 National League Division Series, 3 games to 1. The Phillies, the eventual World Series champions, were eliminated by the Phillies, 3 games to 1.
Following the 2009 season, Yost was a favorite to replace the Houston Astros' next manager, but Brad Mills took over.
Yost was hired as the Kansas City Royals' manager on May 13, 2010, replacing Trey Hillman. The Royals committed Yost to a contract extension through the 2013 season before the 2012 season. Yost's first winning season since 2003 was his best season since 2003.
Yost led the Royals to their first playoff appearance since 1985, finishing 89–73. In four games in the American League Championship Series, Yost's Royals swept the Baltimore Orioles to win the team's first American League pennant in 29 years. The team became the first team in MLB to win their first eight consecutive playoff games in doing so. The Royals were then defeated four games to three by the San Francisco Giants in the 2014 World Series. Yost finished third in the 2014 season of the Year and signed a one-year contract extension in the offseason to remain with the club through 2016.
Yost led the team to a 7–0 start in 2015, the best start to a season since 2003 (which saw the Royals win their first nine games). Yost became the longest-tenured boss in Royals history in his fifth full season as boss. After a 3-2 victory over the Milwaukee Brewers on June 18, 2015, he later became the winningest manager in Royals club history. Yost's Royals thrashed the American League at 95-67 on the final day of the 2015 season, giving Kansas City home field advantage throughout the playoffs, including the World Series, thanks to the AL's victory in the All-Star Game. The Royals won Kansas City's first World Series championship since 1985, as well as the New York Mets' first title as a boss.
Because of MLB's ban on using no internet enabled equipment in the dugout during gametime, MLB gave Yost a warning about using an Apple Watch he received from the MLB on August 18, 2015. Yost received the watch as a host for MLB for winning the 2014 AL pennant. After finding that the Apple Watch's networking capabilities were restricted to those with an active iPhone connection, Yost told a local radio station that MLB had canceled the alert.
Yost has been chastised for his idiosyncratic decision-making and Abletion of Sabermetrics, as well as the team's general confidence in their abilities; Yost was once chastised as saying, "I've been known as a dope all my life." I also took a team to the World Series for the first time in 29 years. And now everyone knows them. And I'm still a huge dope. But it doesn't matter.What does it matter?’’
The Royals revealed on February 18, 2016 that Yost had signed a contract extension with the club, effectively retaining him as the team's boss until the 2018 season.
In the Royals' 3–2 victory over the Chicago White Sox on September 17, 2016, Yost won his 1,000th victory of his managerial career. In 2016, he had a higher percentage of replay problems than any other MLB manager with ten or more challenges, at 67 percent.
In 2018, he was more successful on a greater number of repeat challenges than any other MLB manager with ten or more challenges, at 76%.
Yost announced on September 23, 2019, that he would retire at the end of the 2019 season. He ended his Royals career with 687 victories and 736 losses, both being franchise records for a manager in Royals history.