Michael Lorri Scioscia ( ; born November 27, 1958), nicknamed "Sosh" and "El Jefe" (Spanish for "The Boss"), is an American former
Major League Baseball
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catcher
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and
manager
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in
Major League Baseball
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(MLB). He managed the
Anaheim / Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim / Los Angeles Angels from the
2000 season through the
2018 season, and was the longest-tenured manager in Major League Baseball and second-longest-tenured coach/manager in the "Big Four" (MLB,
NFL
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,
NHL
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, and
NBA
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), behind only
Gregg Popovich
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at the time of his retirement. As a player, Scioscia made his major league debut with the
Los Angeles Dodgers
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in . He was selected to two
All-Star Games
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and won two
World Series
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over the course of his 13-year MLB career, which was spent entirely with the Dodgers; this made him the only person in MLB history to spend his entire playing career with one team and entire managing career with another team with 10+ years in both places. He was signed by the
San Diego Padres
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and
Texas Rangers late in his career, but never appeared in a major league game for either team due to injury.
After his playing career ended, Scioscia spent several seasons as a minor league manager and major league
coach
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in the Dodgers organization before being hired as the Angels manager after the
1999 season. As a manager, Scioscia led the Angels to their only-to-date
World Series
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championship in . He is the Angels' all-time managerial leader in wins, games managed, and division titles. Scioscia was honored with the American League
Manager of the Year Award
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in and . On May 8, 2011, Scioscia became the 56th manager to win 1,000 or more games, and the 23rd to have all 1,000 or more victories with a single team.
Professional career
Draft and minor leagues
Scioscia was drafted by the
Los Angeles Dodgers
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in the first round (19th overall pick) of the 1976 amateur draft.
Los Angeles Dodgers (1980–1992)
Scioscia debuted for the Dodgers in 1980 (replacing
Steve Yeager
Stephen Wayne Yeager (born November 24, 1948) is an American former professional baseball catcher. Yeager spent 14 of the 15 seasons of his Major League Baseball career, from 1972 through 1985, with the Los Angeles Dodgers. His last year, 1986, ...
as the starting catcher) and went on to play 12 years for the team. Dodger manager
Tommy Lasorda
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helped lobby Scioscia to sign with the Dodgers after the team drafted him out of Springfield (Delaware County) High School, a public school located in the suburbs of Philadelphia in 1976.
Scioscia made himself invaluable to the Dodgers by making the effort to learn Spanish in order to better communicate with
rookie
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sensation
Fernando Valenzuela
Fernando Valenzuela Anguamea (; November 1, 1960 – October 22, 2024), nicknamed "El Toro", was a Mexican professional baseball pitcher. Valenzuela played 17 Major League Baseball (MLB) seasons, from 1980 to 1997 (except for a one-year sabba ...
in 1981.
Scioscia went to the
San Diego Padres
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in 1993, but suffered a torn
rotator cuff
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injury during
spring training
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that year and did not play in any regular season games for the team. He closed out his career with the
Texas Rangers in 1994 after a failed attempt to come back from the injury, again without having played in any regular season games that year.
Exclusively a catcher, the 6-foot, 2-inch, 230 pound Scioscia was primarily known for his defense. Former Dodgers vice president
Al Campanis once called Scioscia the best
plate-blocking catcher he had seen in his 46-year baseball career. In one collision with
St. Louis Cardinals' slugger
Jack Clark in July 1985, Scioscia was knocked unconscious but still held onto the ball. Scioscia, however, has claimed he had an even harder plate collision the following season.
Scioscia's technique for blocking the plate and making a tag varied slightly from the traditional manner employed by most catchers. When applying the tag, most catchers hold the baseball in their bare hand, with that hand then being inside their
catcher's mitt to apply the tag with both hands. Scioscia preferred to hold the ball in his catcher's mitt without making use of his bare hand. Also, Scioscia felt he was less prone to injury in a collision if he positioned his body so that he was kneeling on both knees and turned to the side, whereas most catchers make their tag either standing or on one knee.
Indeed, Scioscia was noted for his durability. After missing most of the 1983 season after tearing his rotator cuff, Scioscia played in more than 100 games each season for the remainder of his career with the Dodgers. Offensively, Scioscia was generally unspectacular, but he was known as a solid contact hitter, striking out fewer than once every 14 at-bats over the course of his career. Because of his ability to make contact, he was sometimes used as the second hitter in the batting order—an atypical slot for a player with Scioscia's large-set frame and overall batting average. He had a particularly strong season on offense in 1985, batting .296 and finishing second in the National League in
on-base percentage
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.
Scioscia also hit a dramatic, ninth inning, game-tying
home run
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off the
New York Mets
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'
Dwight Gooden
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in
Game 4 of the 1988 National League Championship Series. With the Dodgers going on to win that game in extra innings, Scioscia's blast (which came after he had hit only three home runs that entire season) proved crucial to the Dodgers' ultimately prevailing in that series.
Scioscia was a key player on the Dodgers' 1981 and 1988
World Series
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champion teams, and is the Dodgers' all-time leader in games caught (1,395). In 1990, Scioscia became the first Dodger catcher to start in an
All-Star Game
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since Hall of Famer
Roy Campanella
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.
Alfredo Griffin
Alfredo Claudino Baptist Read Griffin (born October 6, 1957) is a Dominican former professional baseball player. He played shortstop in Major League Baseball (MLB) for four teams from 1976 to 1993.
Playing career
Griffin began his career as a ...
, Scioscia's teammate from the 1988 Dodger team, served on Scioscia's coaching staff with the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim from 2000 to 2018. Scioscia earned as much as $2,183,333/year in salary toward the end of his career, and earned the unofficial total sum of $10,109,999 over his career.
Scioscia was involved in three no-hitters in his career: he was on the losing end of
Nolan Ryan
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's fifth no-hitter on September 26, 1981 vs. the
Houston Astros
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, and on the winning side, he caught Fernando Valenzuela's on June 29, 1990 vs. the
St. Louis Cardinals
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and
Kevin Gross
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Gross played for five different teams during his career: the Philadelphia Phillies (1983–1988), Montreal Expos (1989� ...
's on August 17, 1992 vs. the
San Francisco Giants
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. He caught 136
shutouts
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during his career, ranking him fourth all-time among major league catchers. Scioscia used the same catcher's mitt for most of his playing career.
Career statistics
Managerial career
Anaheim Angels / Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim / Los Angeles Angels (2000–2018)
After spending several years as a coach in the Dodgers' organization, Scioscia was hired by new Angels
general manager
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Bill Stoneman
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to be the Angels' manager after the 1999 season, following the late-season resignation of
Terry Collins
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and interim managerial tenure of
Joe Maddon
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After playing ...
. Scioscia would retain Maddon as an assistant until Maddon received his own managerial position with the
Tampa Bay Devil Rays
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in .
Under the leadership of Stoneman and Scioscia, the Angels ended their 16-year playoff drought in
2002
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, winning the AL Wild Card and ultimately winning the franchise's first
World Series
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, a series that pitted the Angels against a
San Francisco Giants
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team managed by Scioscia's former Dodgers teammate
Dusty Baker
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. In winning the series, Scioscia became the 17th person to win a World Series as both a player and a manager (not including those who won as a
player-manager
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).

Scioscia was honored as 2002 American League
Manager of Year by the
Baseball Writers' Association of America
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(the official Manager of the Year award, as recognized by Major League Baseball).
He was also named 2002 A.L. Manager of the Year by ''
The Sporting News
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'', ''
USA Today Sports Weekly
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'', and the
Negro Leagues Baseball Museum
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. He was further named the overall Major League 2002 Manager of the Year by ''
Baseball America
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''.
The Angels under Scioscia would go on to enjoy a period of on-field success never before seen in franchise history, winning five
American League West
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division titles in six years (surpassing the number won by all previous Angels managers combined). Scioscia's Angels broke the franchise single-season win record with 99 wins in 2002, and again with 100 wins in 2008. However, they have yet to win another American League pennant or World Series since their memorable 2002 run.
Scioscia is the Angels' all-time leader in wins and games managed, surpassing original manager
Bill Rigney
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's totals in both categories in and , respectively. He was also the longest tenured manager in Major League Baseball. In January 2009, he received a multi-year extension on his contract; his former contract ran through the 2010 season. The number of additional years created through this contract was 10 years, through 2018.
Scioscia was honored as 2009 American League
Major League Manager of Year by the
Baseball Writers' Association of America
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(the official Manager of the Year award, as recognized by Major League Baseball).

Scioscia became the first manager to reach the playoffs in six of his first ten seasons. On May 8, 2011, the Angels defeated the
Cleveland Indians
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, which marked Scioscia's 1,000th win as a major league manager.
A rift developed between Scioscia and
Jerry Dipoto
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, the Angels' general manager, when Dipoto fired
Mickey Hatcher
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from the role of the team's
hitting coach
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in 2012. Despite rumors that the Angels might replace either Dipoto or Scioscia after the 2013 season, Moreno announced that both would return to the Angels for the 2014 season.
Tension between Dipoto and Scioscia continued during the 2015 season regarding the way Scioscia and his coaches delivered statistical reports developed by Dipoto and the front office to their players. Dipoto resigned his post on July 1, 2015, despite efforts from the Angels to convince him to stay. Former Angels general manager Bill Stoneman, who hired Scioscia before the 2000 season, was hired as the interim general manager.
After 19 seasons as manager, following the conclusion of the 2018 season, Scioscia announced that he would step down as manager of the Angels on September 30, 2018. He finished with a record of 1,650 wins and 1,428 losses.
United States national team
On April 6, 2021,
USA Baseball
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announced that Scioscia would manage the
United States national baseball team
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during qualifying for
baseball at the 2020 Summer Olympics
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, held in Tokyo in 2021. The team subsequently qualified, with Scioscia serving as manager for the Olympics. The team went on to win silver, falling to
Japan
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in the
gold-medal game.
On July 26, 2024, it was announced that Scioscia would helm the United States national team at the
2024 WBSC Premier12
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.
Managerial record
Television appearances
In addition to his more orthodox work in baseball, Scioscia is also notable for a
guest appearance
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The guests themselves (referred to as guest artists, featured artists, guest stars, or guest fighters, depending on context), are disting ...
as himself on ''
The Simpsons
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'' episode "
Homer at the Bat
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" in
1992
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* January 6
** The Republ ...
, while he was still a player. In the storyline, Scioscia is one of several Major League players recruited by
Smithers
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People
* Alan Smithers (born 1938) ...
to work a token job at the
Springfield Nuclear Power Plant
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so that he could play on the plant's
softball
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team against a rival power plant. Scioscia tells Smithers, who found him while deer hunting, that while he enjoyed playing baseball, he always wanted to be a
blue collar
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power plant employee, and consequently is the only player who takes the power plant job seriously. His character is ultimately hospitalized with a life-threatening case of
radiation poisoning
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that leaves him unable to play.
''They called and asked if I'd be interested in doing it, and it so happened that it was my favorite show. I was excited . . . Every year I get a ( residual) check for like $4 . . . I cash 'em. I don't want to mess up their accounting department.''
:— Mike Scioscia, about his appearance on ''The Simpsons''
Scioscia made a second appearance on ''The Simpsons'' with the episode "
MoneyBart
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", which premiered on October 10, 2010. Having survived the radiation poisoning, he tells Marge and Bart that it gave him superhuman managing powers (as well as the ability to de-magnetise credit cards) and that the best players listen to their managers.
Scioscia acted as a
celebrity endorser of the Howard's Appliance & Big Screen Superstore chain in
Southern California
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.
Personal life
Early in his career after signing with the Dodgers, Scioscia spent the off-seasons attending
Penn State University
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, working toward a computer science degree.
Scioscia and his wife Anne have two children and reside in
Westlake Village, California
Westlake Village is a city in Los Angeles County, California, on its western border with Ventura County. Upon its incorporation in 1981, Westlake Village became the 82nd municipality of Los Angeles County.Baker, Pam (2002). ''Thousand Oaks We ...
.
Their son Matthew, who played baseball for
Notre Dame, was selected in the 45th round by the Angels in the
2011 MLB Draft
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. He signed on June 20, and was assigned to the
AZL Angels
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. He was traded to the
Chicago Cubs
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for Trevor Gretzky, son of
Wayne Gretzky
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, on March 20, 2014. He was released by the
Windy City ThunderBolts
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on June 14.
"Frontier League Transactions" ''frontierleague.com''
accessed July 20, 2014
See also
* List of Major League Baseball All-Star Game managers
*
*
*
* List of Major League Baseball managers with most career wins
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References
External links
ESPN Profile
:
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