Joe Kerrigan Essentials

Positions: Pitcher 
Bats: R Throws: R
Height: 6′ – 5″  Weight: 205
Born: Saturday, January 30, 1954 in Philadelphia, PA USA
Debut: 7/9/1976
Last Game: 4/12/1980
Full Name: Joseph Thomas Kerrigan

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Notable Events and Chronology

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July 9, 1976

Larry Dierker tosses the fifth no-hitter in Houston Astros history

September 8, 1976

1976 – In a twinbill, the Expos’ Joe Kerrigan wins a pair from the Cardinals with two innings of relief work in both games, for the first two wins of his career. Montreal wins, 7 – 5 and 8 – 7.

August 16, 1977

At Montreal, the Phillies win their 13th straight, a 20th century club record, beating the Expos, 7 – 5. Warren Brusstar is the winner over Joe Kerrigan.

December 7, 1977

1977 – In a swap that helps both teams‚ the Orioles trade P Rudy May‚ Randy Miller‚ and Bryn Smith to the Expos for P Don Stanhouse‚ P Joe Kerrigan‚ and OF Gary Roenicke.

August 16, 2001

After piloting the team to 13 games above .500 in spite of numerous injuries to key players, manager Jimy Williams is fired by the Red Sox. The ousted skipper is replaced by the club’s well-respected pitching coach, Joe Kerrigan, but will fade completely down the stretch.

September 17, 2001

Boston OF Carl Everett is suspended for four games by the Red Sox. Everett was late for a scheduled workout on Sunday and got into a shouting match with manager Joe Kerrigan after being told to go home.

March 5, 2002

Red Sox skipper Joe Kerrigan becomes the fourth manager to be fired during spring training. The team’s former pitching coach, who guided the club to a 17-26 record after taking over for Jimy Williams last August, had signed a multi-year contract to be Boston’s field boss with then-GM Dan Duquette, but was not favored by the new ownership that took control last month.

March 11, 2002

The Red Sox replace Joe Kerrigan with Grady Little

November 4, 2005

The Yankees continue to makeover their coaching staff when Ron Guidry, a former three-time 20-game winner, is named to replace Mel Stottlemyre as the team’s pitching coach, and former Red Sox skipper Joe Kerrigan joins the team as its bullpen coach. Earlier in the week, former big league managers Larry Bowa (third base coach), Lee Mazzilli (bench coach), and Tony Pena (first base coach) also are added to Joe Torre’s staff.

Biography

Kerrigan’s first major-league appearance was a relief stint for the Expos during Larry Dierker’s no-hitter for Houston on July 9, 1976. “I knocked [Dierker] down with a pitch in the eighth inning,” Kerrigan later remembered, “and all the fans were booing me.”

The 6’5″ forkballer won both games of a doubleheader later that season against St. Louis, his only two wins that year. He shared Montreal bullpen duties with Don Stanhouse in 1977, making 66 appearances and saving 11. The two were then shipped to Baltimore, where Kerrigan closed out his brief major-league career.

Kerrigan, whose brother Tom was a catcher in the Phillies organization in the 1960s, returned as the Expos’ bullpen coach in 1983. Within a decade he had become the team’s pitching coach, charged with nurturing a young flock of talented arms that included Pedro Martinez, Jeff Fassero, Ken Hill and Kirk Rueter.

By the time Kerrigan jumped to the Red Sox in 1996, he was already considered one of the top pitching coaches in the majors, and he continued to impress by cobbling Boston’s motley pitching staff into a surprisingly effective unit. Five years later after moving to Boston, he got his first taste of managerial experience when he was hired to replace Jimy Williams in August 2001. However, he led the team to a 17–26 record and, with new ownership taking over in the offseason, was replaced by Grady Little during spring training in 2002.

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