Colin Michael Kaline (born April 26, 1989) is an American

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coach and former

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and

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. He played

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at Florida Southern for coaches Pete Meyer and Jim Tyrrell from 2008 to 2011 before playing in

Minor League Baseball Minor League Baseball (MiLB) is a professional baseball organization below Major League Baseball (MLB), constituted of teams affiliated with MLB clubs. It was founded on September 5, 1901, in response to the growing dominance of the National Le ...

(MiLB) for 2 seasons from 2011 to 2012. He then served as the head coach of

Oakland Golden Grizzlies The Oakland Golden Grizzlies are the athletic teams that represent Oakland University (OU) in the Horizon League and NCAA Division I, Division I of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). The school fields 16 teams: Oakland Golden Gr ...

(2017–2020).

Playing career

Kaline attended

Birmingham Groves High School Groves High School (Wylie E. Groves High School or Groves) is a public high school in Beverly Hills, Michigan, United States, in the Birmingham Public School District. Groves' colors are green, white, and yellow and its mascot is Freddy the F ...

Beverly Hills, Michigan Beverly Hills is a village in Oakland County in the U.S. state of Michigan. A northern suburb of Detroit, Beverly Hills is located within Southfield Township, roughly northwest of downtown Detroit. As of the 2020 census, the village had a pop ...

. Kaline played for the school's varsity

team all four years. The

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selected Kaline in the 25th round of the

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. He did not sign, and enrolled at the

Florida Southern College Florida Southern College (Florida Southern, Southern or FSC) is a private college in Lakeland, Florida. In 2019, the student population at FSC consisted of 3,073 students along with 130 full-time faculty members. It offers undergraduate, gradua ...

, to play

for the

Florida Southern Moccasins baseball The Florida Southern Moccasins (also shortened to Florida Southern Mocs) are the athletic teams that represent Florida Southern College, located in Lakeland, Florida, in NCAA Division II intercollegiate sports. The Moccasins compete as members of ...

team. As a freshman at Florida Southern in 2008, Kaline had a .250

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, hit 3 doubles and a .313 SLG. As a sophomore in 2009, Kaline batted .227 with a .349 SLG, 1 home run, and 24 RBIs. In the 2010 season as a junior, Kaline scored 45 runs and hit 5 doubles. Kaline as a senior in 2011, he record 41 hits, 1 home run and had 17 RBIs. Kaline was then drafted in the 26th round of the

2011 Major League Baseball draft The 2011 Major League Baseball draft was held from June 6 through June 8, 2011, from Studio 42 of the MLB Network in Secaucus, New Jersey. The Pittsburgh Pirates selected Gerrit Cole out of the University of California, Los Angeles, with the firs ...

by the

. Kaline would play two seasons for the

Connecticut Tigers The Norwich Sea Unicorns are a baseball team located in Norwich, Connecticut. From 2010 to 2020, they were members of Minor League Baseball's New York–Penn League (NYPL) as the Class A Short Season affiliate of the Detroit Tigers. They play ...

and the

West Michigan Whitecaps The West Michigan Whitecaps are a Minor League Baseball team of the Midwest League and the High-A affiliate of the Detroit Tigers. They are located in Comstock Park, Michigan, a suburb of Grand Rapids, and play their home games at LMCU Ballpar ...

before retiring from playing.

Coaching career

Kaline returned to his alma mater in 2014 where he coached for three seasons as an assistant. With John Musachio being fired, Kaline and Jacke Healey were named co-head coaches of the Oakland Golden Grizzlies baseball program on July 12, 2016. Kaline was asked to continue solo in June 2019 until he resigned for health reasons in March 2020.

Head coaching record

Personal life

Kaline is the grandson of baseball Hall of Famer

Al Kaline Albert William Kaline ( ; December 19, 1934 – April 6, 2020), nicknamed "Mr. Tiger", was an American professional baseball right fielder who played 22 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Detroit Tigers. For most of his career, Kali ...

, who played for the

. Kaline's father, Michael, played college baseball at

Miami University Miami University (informally Miami of Ohio or simply Miami) is a public university, public research university in Oxford, Ohio, United States. Founded in 1809, it is the second-oldest List of colleges and universities in Ohio, university in Ohi ...

. Kaline married Stephanie Eller on October 26, 2013. Their first child, a daughter named Kennedy, was born in the fall of 2018.

References

External links

Florida Southern Moccasins bio
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