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Gary Thomas DiSarcina (born November 19, 1967) is an American professional baseball coach. Since he has been a coach for the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, the team for which he played his entire Major League career. ==Shortstop for Angels (1992–98)== A former shortstop who stood tall and weighed , DiSarcina was raised in Billerica, Massachusetts, and attended the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He was drafted by the California Angels in the sixth round of the 1988 amateur draft. After brief Major League trials from 1989–91, DiSarcina replaced Dick Schofield as the Angels' regular shortstop in and held the job through . He was selected to the American League All-Star team in , a strike-shortened year when he batted a career-high .307 in 99 games played. He missed six weeks of action during that season, from August 4 through September 18, after sustaining a torn ligament in his thumb.〔(SABR )〕 In , his finest all-around season, he was voted the Angels' team MVP.〔(UMass Inducts 2005 Hall Of Fame Class :: Aprile, Bartley, DiSarcina, Roe, Scurry, and Whelchel joined Hall on Friday )〕 That year, in 157 games played, DiSarcina reached career highs in hits (158) and runs batted in (56), while batting .287. But it was his last full season as a player; his career, hampered by injuries — including a broken arm that cost him half of the season〔 — wound down during the next two years. He played only 12 games in and was out of baseball in 2001 before attempting a final comeback in 2002 in the Boston Red Sox organization with the Pawtucket Red Sox. All told, DiSarcina played in 1,086 Major League games, all with the Angels; his 966 hits included 186 doubles, 20 triples and 28 home runs. DiSarcina wore several numbers over the course of his career. He wore the number 4 during his first season. He changed to number 11, then to number 33 (in tribute to Larry Bird), and finally to number 9 for his remaining four seasons.〔(Gary DiSarcina Baseball Stats by Baseball Almanac )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Gary DiSarcina」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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