Rick Honeycutt
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Frederick Wayne Honeycutt (born June 29, 1954) is an American former professional baseball coach and pitcher.
Honeycutt pitched in Major League Baseball (MLB) for six different teams over 21 years, from 1977 to 1997.
He pitched in 30 post-season games, including 20 League Championship Series games and seven World Series games, and never lost a game, going 3-0.
Honeycutt gave up zero runs in the 1988 and 1990 post-seasons, and was a member of the Oakland Athletics' 1989 World Series championship team.
He was also the pitching coach for the Los Angeles Dodgers from 2006 through 2019.
Playing career
Honeycutt was born in Chattanooga, Tennessee, and graduated from Lakeview – Fort Oglethorpe High School in Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia.
Honeycutt was a member of the Tennessee Volunteers baseball team from 1973 to 1976, where he was an All-American first baseman-pitcher and captured the Southeastern Conference batting championship with a.404 record. Bob Cerv's summer football team played in Liberal, Kansas, in the Jayhawk League.
The Pittsburgh Pirates had Honeycutt in the 17th round of the 1976 draft. The Pirates traded him to the Seattle Mariners in August 1977 to complete a previous trade for Dave Pagan, who spent 1+12 seasons in their minor league system.
He made his major league debut against the Toronto Blue Jays on August 24, 1977. He pitched two innings of relief, struck out 3, and left 2 hits and no runs on the field. On August 31, he made his first appearance against the New York Yankees. He pitched 7.1 innings in that first season, while still allowing 3 runs. He started the year 0-1, but he won his first game in his first year the next year, defeating the Minnesota Twins on April 7, 1978.
He developed into a control pitcher and was named in the 1980 All-Star Game. While pitching on September 30, 1980, he was caught using a thumbtack to illegally cut the ball. He had been banned from playing for ten games after being ejected. In an 11-player blockbuster contract with minor-league right-handed pitcher Steve Finch, joined Willie Horton, Leon Roberts, Mario Mendoza, and Larry Cox from the Mariners to the Texas Rangers for Richie Zisk, Jerry Don Gleaton, Jerry Don Gleaton, Ken Clay, Brian Allard, and minor-league right-handed pitcher Steve Finch on December 18, 1980. In 1983, Honeycutt appeared for the Rangers in the All-Star Game. Honeycutt was traded from the Rangers to the Los Angeles Dodgers for Dave Stewart and Ricky Wright on August 19, 1983. Honeycutt led the American League in 1983 with 2.42 points, but he was traded to the Dodgers late in the season.
In 1987, the Dodgers traded Honeycutt to the Oakland Athletics for a player to be named later, but it would be Tim Belcher. Dennis Eckersley, a starting pitcher who was moved from Oakland to relief in 1988, became a set-up man before converting to 1988. In 1996 and 1997, he was the oldest major league player to play in both 1996 and 1997.
He made 268 starts and 529 relief appearances in his career, including a record-breaking 2,160 innings pitched and compiling 38 saves.
Coaching career
Honeycutt spent a year coaching his kids' teams before joining the Dodgers as their minor league pitching coordinator.
For the 2006 season, Honeycutt joined the Dodgers' coaching staff as the pitching coach. In Chattanooga, Tennessee, he also established a sports goods and clothing company.
Grady Little's 2007 coaching staff were the only holdovers from Grady Little's 2007 coaching staff to return on new Dodgers' manager Joe Torre's 2008 coaching staff. When Don Mattingly replaced Torre after the 2010 season, Honeycutt retained him as pitching coach. Honeycutt was the only coach to stay on the team for new boss Dave Roberts when Mattingley left the team after the 2015 season.
Honeycutt stepped down as the Dodgers' pitching coach after the 2019 season, and he took up as a special assistant to the team due to a back injury. Ron Perranoski was the longest tenure in the Dodgers' pitching coach (under four different presidents).