Alan Trammell

Alan Trammell
Shortstop
Born: February 21, 1958 Garden Grove , United States
Strikes: Right	Throws: Right
Debut in Major League Baseball
September 9,  1977  for the  Detroit Tigers
Last MLB assignment
September 29,  1996  with the  Detroit Tigers
MLB statistics (until end of career)
Batting average	, 285
Home runs	185
Hits	2,365
Runs Batted In	1.003
Teams
As a player Detroit Tigers (1977-1996) As a manager Detroit Tigers (2003-2005) Arizona Diamondbacks (2014) As a coach Detroit Tigers (1999) San Diego Padres (2000-2002) Chicago Cubs (2007-2010) Arizona Diamondbacks (2011-2014)
Awards
6 × All-Star (1980, 1984, 1985, 1987, 1988, 1990) World Series Winner ( 1984 ) World Series MVP (1984) 4 × Gold Glove Award (1980, 1981, 1983, 1984) 3 × Silver Slugger Award (1987, 1988, 1990) AL Comeback Player of the Year (1983)
member of
Baseball Hall of Fame
Recorded	2018
Quota	81.2%
Last update: January 31, 2019

Alan Stuart Trammell (born February 21, 1958 in Garden Grove , California ) is a retired American baseball player and active coach in Major League Baseball .

From 1977 to 1996 he played as a shortstop with the Detroit Tigers . Trammell, nicknamed "Tram", had a successful playing career with the Tigers. The highlights here were winning the World Series in 1984 and the division title in the American League East in 1987. Trammell's particular strengths were its good range and strengths in double play , which were mainly due to the unusually high accuracy of its throws .

After the end of his active career in 2003, Trammell stayed with the Tigers until 2005 as a team manager. Alan Trammell is currently the bench coach for the Arizona Diamondbacks . In 2018 he was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame .

Player career

The early years

Trammell's career began with the Tigers' farm team in Montgomery, where he was used in the Southern League. There he also played the first game with Lou Whitaker , who was to remain a teammate of Trammell for many years. Both made their MLB debut together on September 9, 1977 at Fenway Park . This marked the start of the first of a total of nineteen seasons that Trammell and Whitaker wore the same jersey.

In 1980, Trammell was called to the All-Star Game for the first time thanks to his defensive performance and a "batting average" of .300. The honor of playing for the Allstars of the American League was to be given five more times. Trammell had his final breakthrough in the 1984 season, when he was one of the season's outstanding players with a batting average of .314, 14 home runs , 66 runs batted in and 30 stolen bases . As a result, he won the MLB Comeback Player of the Year Award .

Trammell and Whitaker also appeared as guest stars in the television series Magnum, pi on the side of Tom Selleck during the 1983 season . Selleck, who was born in Detroit, played the protagonist of the series as an avowed Tigers fan.

The 1984 season

Trammell and his teammates delivered a dream season in 1984, which was crowned with victory in the World Series. Although Trammell suffered from tendinitis in his shoulder for the entire season and missed 43 games of the regular season, he landed fifth in the "batting average" and eighth in the statistics of the "on base percentage" . In the series for the American League title against the Kansas City Royals , Trammell achieved a "batting average" of .364 and scored a home run and three "runs batted in". In the World Series against the San Diego Padres , he managed two home runs in game 4, with which he almost single-handedly decided the game. Nine of his 20 "at bats" in the World Series were "on base". Detroit won the series 4-1 and Trammell was named a World Series MVP .

Glory years 1985 to 1988

After two successful years, Trammell was hampered by several injuries in 1985 and did not get above a "batting average" of .258. After the season he had an operation on his left knee and right shoulder. The following season, however, he came back very successfully and managed to achieve both 20 home runs and 20 stolen bases in one season. He also set a new personal record with 75 RBI.

In 1987 Trammell was able to improve again extremely and in September achieved an outstanding batting average of .416, including six home runs and 17 RBI. So he had a large share in the title in the American League East, which the Tigers could win. His season result of 200 hits and 100 RBI in one season was the best performance by a Tiger player since the success of Al Kaline in 1955.

Injuries and end of career

In the years that followed, Trammell suffered from one injury after the other and deteriorated as a result, both when hitting and on the field. In 1991 he only played 101 games due to knee and ankle injuries. In the following 1992 season, only 29 missions before he broke his right ankle and had to sit out the rest of the season. After recovering from the injury, he was unable to get into the squad as a regular shortstop. Then in 1996 he resigned from active sports.

In his 20-year career, Trammell achieved a batting average of 28.5%, including 185 home runs, 1003 RBI, 1231 runs, 2365 hits, 412 doubles, 55 triples and 236 stolen bases in 2293 games. Following his active career, Trammell acted as a punch coach with Detroit in 1999 and as first-base coach with the San Diego Padres from 2000 to 2002 before returning to Detroit as a manager.

Managerial career

Alan Trammell took over as manager of the Tigers on October 9, 2002 after the team was among the worst in Major League Baseball . In his first season as a manager in 2003, the Tigers lost 119 games in the American League, setting a negative record. In the 2004 season, the team was able to improve to a record of 72-90, not least thanks to the good managerial work. This was the biggest leap for a team in the American League in 16 years. In 2005 the result remained almost unchanged with a record of 71–91. In his time as manager at the Tigers, Trammell brought it to an overall record of 186-300.

After the Tigers could not achieve a positive record for three years in a row, Trammell was released on October 3, 2005 and replaced by Jim Leyland . Trammell turned down the offer of the Tigers to remain as an assistant.

In October 2006 he signed with the Chicago Cubs , where he worked as a bench coach from the 2007 season. This has been seen by observers as a step back towards a future managerial position in the MLB. After the resignation of manager Lou Pinella in August 2010, the Cubs appointed not Trammell, but the previous bench coach Mike Quade as the new manager. Trammell left the Cubs at the end of the season and was signed on October 26, 2010 by the Arizona Diamondbacks as the new bench coach.

Web links

Commons : Alan Trammell  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Player information and statistics from MLB  or  ESPN  or  Baseball Reference  or  Fangraphs  or  The Baseball Cube  or  Baseball Reference (Minor League) (English)
• Data as a manager (English)
• Alan Trammel in the Baseball Hall of Fame (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Quade gets his shot; Trammell not a candidate . In: csnchicago.com . Retrieved on October 30, 2010.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
2. ^ D-backs name four to fill out coaching staff . In: arizona.diamondbacks.mlb.com . Archived from the original on October 29, 2010. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved October 30, 2010.