August Robert Schmidt IV (born June 28, 1961) is the current

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of the

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baseball team. He was a minor league baseball

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from 1982 to 1986.

High school and college career

Schmidt attended

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. He was drafted by the

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in the ninth round (230th overall) of the 1979 Major League Baseball Draft, but he did not sign with the team. Instead, he attended the

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, where he played

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. In 1981 he won a gold medal as a member of the United States national team in World Games I. In 1982 he won the

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, an award given to the top amateur baseball player in the United States.

Minor league career

Schmidt was drafted second overall in the

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by the

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. After signing with the team, he spent the rest of the 1982 season with the

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, hitting .297 in 50 games. The following season he was promoted to the

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, where he played in 135 games with a batting average of .266 and 28 doubles. In 1984, he was again promoted, splitting time between Knoxville and the

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of the International League, although there he had problems with both his fielding and hitting and only had a batting average of .201 in 46 games. Despite advancing to Triple-A by 1984, Schmidt never made the major leagues with the Blue Jays, because of issues with injuries and a logjam at shortstop in the Blue Jays organization. At the end Schmidt was traded to the

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along with

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for pitcher

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; he began the season with the

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, getting a fresh start in 1985. He played in 59 games for Phoenix and 12 more for the

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, then spent the 1986 season with the

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of the

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organization, where he hit .226 in 71 games.

Coach at Carthage College

He retired in 1986 and in 1987 was an assistant coach at

in his hometown of

Kenosha, Wisconsin Kenosha () is a city in the U.S. state of Wisconsin and the seat of Kenosha County. Per the 2020 census, the population was 99,986 which made it the fourth-largest city in Wisconsin. Situated on the southwestern shore of Lake Michigan, Keno ...

, where his father, Augie Schmidt III, had been head coach from 1962 to 1980. He became the head baseball coach in 1988, and has been the head coach since.

Personal life

Schmidt's nephew, Gavin Lux, is an infielder and outfielder for the

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Schmidt, Augie 1961 births Living people Sportspeople from Kenosha, Wisconsin Kinston Blue Jays players Knoxville Blue Jays players Syracuse Chiefs players Phoenix Giants players Shreveport Captains players Kenosha Twins players Golden Spikes Award winners New Orleans Privateers baseball players Carthage Firebirds baseball coaches World Games gold medalists Competitors at the 1981 World Games All-American college baseball players Mary D. Bradford High School alumni Baseball coaches from Wisconsin