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Eugene Patrick Glynn (born September 22, 1956, at Waseca, Minnesota) is an American professional baseball coach and a former minor league manager and second baseman. Named the third base coach of the Minnesota Twins on November 12, 2014,〔(Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, 2014-11-12 )〕 he also has held coaching positions with four other Major League teams. As an active player, he stood tall, weighed , and threw and batted right-handed. Glynn graduated from Waseca High School and Mankato State University, where he starred in both baseball and basketball. He was Minnesota's first "Mr. Basketball" in 1975. Glynn was signed as a non-drafted free agent by the Montreal Expos in 1979 and played seven seasons in Montreal's farm system, including parts of three campaigns (1982–1984) at the Class AAA level. His rookie season, in the 1979 New York-Penn League, was his best, with 36 runs batted in in 64 games played, 71 runs scored, and a batting average of .296.〔Howe News Bureau, ''1985 Montreal Expos Organization Book.'' St. Petersburg, Florida: The Baseball Library, 1985 〕 He managed five seasons (1987–1988; 1990–1992) in Short Season-A baseball, beginning in the New York-Penn League. His 1990 Spokane Indians, a San Diego Padres affiliate, won the Northwest League championship. Bob Gebhard, the scout who signed Glynn for the Expos in 1979, was the first general manager in the history of the Colorado Rockies, and he brought Glynn into the expansion team's system in 1992. By , Glynn was on the coaching staff of the Major League Rockies, serving for five full seasons, through . He then returned to the Expos for one season () as an MLB coach, then spent longer tenures as the third-base coach of the Chicago Cubs (2000–2002) and San Francisco Giants (–2006).〔Retrosheet.org〕 Glynn spent the 2007–2011 seasons as a member of the professional scouting staff of the Tampa Bay Rays, based in Waseca.〔''Baseball America 2009 Annual Directory〕 In 2012, Glynn joined the Twins' organization as manager of the Triple-A Rochester Red Wings.〔''http://www.democratandchronicle.com/article/20111125/SPORTS06/111125019/Red-Wings-name-Gene-Glynn-manager?odyssey=tab%7Ctopnews%7Ctext%7CHome〕 After a 72–72 season, the Red Wings' best record in four years, Glynn returned to Rochester in and , and led his club to identical 77–67 marks.〔(MiLB.com )〕 As a result of his success, Glynn was interviewed for the parent Twins' vacant managerial opening in October 2014, after the firing of veteran skipper Ron Gardenhire.〔(Rochester Democrat & Chronicle )〕 Baseball Hall of Famer Paul Molitor ultimately was hired as the Twins' 2015 pilot, and he added Glynn to his first-year staff as third-base coach.〔 ==References== * Howe News Bureau, ''1985 Montreal Expos Organization Book.'' St. Petersburg, Florida: The Baseball Library, 1985 〔 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「Gene Glynn」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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