Glenn Edward Hoffman (born July 7, 1958) is an American former professional baseball

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, coach, and

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. Hoffman had a nine-year playing career in

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(MLB), and served as the manager of the

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for the last 88 games of the season in

1998 1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''. Events January * January 6 – The ''Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for Lunar water, frozen water, in soil i ...

. A native of

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, he is the older brother of

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closer Trevor Hoffman.

Playing career

Hoffman attended Savanna High School of

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, and was selected by the

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in the second round of the

1976 Events January * January 2 – The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights enters into force. * January 5 – The Pol Pot regime proclaims a new constitution for Democratic Kampuchea. * January 18 – Full diplomatic ...

June draft. He played primarily at shortstop for the Red Sox from

1980 Events January * January 4 – U.S. President Jimmy Carter proclaims a United States grain embargo against the Soviet Union, grain embargo against the USSR with the support of the European Commission. * January 6 – Global Positioning Sys ...

1987 Events January * January 1 – Bolivia reintroduces the Boliviano currency. * January 2 – Chadian–Libyan conflict – Battle of Fada: The Military of Chad, Chadian army destroys a Libyan armoured brigade. * January 3 – Afghan leader ...

, when he was traded to the Dodgers on August 21. In 1988, he returned to the Red Sox' organization as a

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but spent the entire season in the minor leagues. In

1989 1989 was a turning point in political history with the "Revolutions of 1989" which ended communism in Eastern Bloc of Europe, starting in Poland and Hungary, with experiments in power-sharing coming to a head with the opening of the Berlin W ...

, he signed with the

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, but was limited to 48 games in his final MLB season. In 766

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in the Majors, Hoffman collected 524

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, with 106 doubles, nine

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and 23

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. He batted .242.

Coaching/managing career

After his playing career, Hoffman began coaching, and spent years (1991–1993; 1997–June 21, 1998) as a manager in the Dodger

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; in between those terms he was field coordinator of instruction for the Dodgers' player development organization. He was in the midst of his second season as manager of the Triple-A

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in 1998 when the parent Dodgers, sitting in third place at 36–38 and games out of the lead in the National League West Division, fired manager

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and

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Fred Claire. Hoffman was named interim manager (with

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skipper Tommy Lasorda taking over the front office reins) on June 22. Hoffman led the Dodgers for the remainder of the season, compiling a 47–41 (.534) win–loss record; the team finished 83–79 and in third place, 15 games behind the eventual NL champion

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. Davey Johnson was then named manager for 1999, and Hoffman was retained as third base coach, serving seven full seasons in the post for Johnson and his successor, Jim Tracy. Hoffman interviewed for the vacant Red Sox managerial job after the season when Grady Little's contract expired, but Boston instead hired

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. In 2006, Hoffman became the third base coach for the Padres and served in this role for 15 seasons—working for eight different managers or interim skippers, including

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, Buddy Black and Andy Green. On November 12, 2020, Hoffman retired from coaching and began working for the Padres front office in an advisory role.

Personal

Glenn Hoffman is the older brother of

closer Trevor Hoffman, the former all-time leader in saves, who spent seasons (1993–2008) with the Padres. Their late father, Ed, was a longtime usher at Anaheim Stadium and a professional singer who would often perform "

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" before Angel games—especially as a "

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" when the scheduled singer could not appear.Article
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