| Dave Wallace | |||||||||||||||
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.jpg) Wallace(left) withCaleb Joseph in 2015 | |||||||||||||||
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| Born: (1947-09-07)September 7, 1947 (age 78) Waterbury, Connecticut, U.S. | |||||||||||||||
Batted: Right Threw: Right | |||||||||||||||
| MLB debut | |||||||||||||||
| July 18, 1973, for the Philadelphia Phillies | |||||||||||||||
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| May 19, 1978, for the Toronto Blue Jays | |||||||||||||||
| MLB statistics | |||||||||||||||
| Win–loss record | 0–1 | ||||||||||||||
| Earned run average | 7.84 | ||||||||||||||
| Strikeouts | 12 | ||||||||||||||
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David William Wallace (born September 7, 1947) is an American former professionalbaseballpitcher,pitching coach and front-office executive. He played inMajor League Baseball (MLB) for thePhiladelphia Phillies andToronto Blue Jays. After his playing career he was apitching coach for theLos Angeles Dodgers,New York Mets,Boston Red Sox,Houston Astros andBaltimore Orioles.
An all-around athlete atSacred Heart High School ofWaterbury, Connecticut, Wallace playedbaseball,basketball andfootball. Wallace had a Hall of Fame collegiate career at theUniversity of New Haven, where he went24–7 with a 2.18earned run average and 311strikeouts in his four-year career.[1] He signed with thePhiladelphia Phillies as an amateurfree agent in 1970. A right-handedrelief pitcher, Wallace posted a 47–31 record with 60saves in 355 careerminor league outings. In the Majors, he made 13appearances for the Phillies (1973–74) andToronto Blue Jays (1978) and went 0–1 with 12strikeouts and a 7.84 ERA in 202⁄3innings. He concluded his playing career withTriple-APawtucket (1979).
After his retirement as a player, Wallace became a pitching coach in the Dodgers' organization forClass AVero Beach (1981–82),Double-ASan Antonio (1983) and Triple-AAlbuquerque (1984–86). He also managed San Antonio for part of the 1983 season and put himself into four games as a pitcher in both 1984 and 1986 with the Dukes. He was then the Dodgers' minor league pitching coordinator from 1987 to 1994 until he replacedRon Perranoski as the Dodgers' Major League pitching coach in 1995.
As a coach, Wallace is credited with helping develop the talents of pitchersPedro Martínez,Ramón Martínez,Pedro Astacio,Darren Dreifort,Hideo Nomo,Chan Ho Park,Ismael Valdéz andJohn Wetteland. He was also credited byOrel Hershiser for his early success with the Dodgers in aSports Illustrated article.
Wallace left the Dodgers after the 1998 season and became the pitching coach of theNew York Mets from 1999 to 2000, underBobby Valentine, including New York's2000 National League championship club. But he and Valentine did not have a close working relationship,[2][3] and Wallace resigned after the2000 World Series to rejoin the Dodgers as senior vice president, baseball operations.[4] He then served as an interimgeneral manager of the Dodgers in 2001 afterKevin Malone was forced to resign at midseason.
Wallace left the Dodger front office to become the pitching coach for theBoston Red Sox on June 10, 2003, replacingTony Cloninger, who at the time was (successfully) battling bladder cancer.[5] Wallace then won aWorld Series ring with the Red Sox in2004.
In February 2006, while driving tospring training, Wallace was hospitalized inSpartanburg, South Carolina, with intense pain in his right hip.[6] Twelve years after havinghip replacement surgery, Wallace discovered he was suffering from a severe infection in the replaced joint.[7] He nearly died from the infection, and underwent immediate surgery. He had a second replacement surgery in June[8] and was able to resume his duties with the Red Sox on August 8, 2006, through the end of the season, when he resigned.
Wallace was hired as the new pitching coach by theHouston Astros in 2007, but left that job in October 2007 when he was hired by theSeattle Mariners organization as a special assistant to the general manager. On January 13, 2009, he was named the Mariners minor league pitching coordinator.[9] After completing the 2009 season in this position, Wallace was hired by theAtlanta Braves to serve in the same capacity for them.[10] He briefly filled in as the Braves pitching coach in 2011 whileRoger McDowell was on suspension.
In November 2013, he was named as the Baltimore Orioles pitching coach replacing interim coachBill Castro. Wallace's retirement from the Orioles was announced at a press conference on October 6, 2016,[11] however, Wallace immediately rejoined the Braves as a pitching consultant.[12]
In April 2021, Wallace was named as a coach for theUnited States national baseball team, for the team's final efforts to qualify forbaseball at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo in 2021.[13] The team qualified, with Wallace serving as the team's pitching coach for the Olympics.[14] The team went on to win silver, falling to Japan in the gold-medal game.[15]
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| Preceded by | Los Angeles Dodgerspitching coach 1995–1997 | Succeeded by |
| Preceded by | New York Metspitching coach 1999–2000 | Succeeded by |
| Preceded by | Los Angeles Dodgers general manager 2001 | Succeeded by |
| Preceded by | Boston Red Soxpitching coach 2003–2006 | Succeeded by |
| Preceded by | Houston Astrospitching coach 2007 | Succeeded by |
| Preceded by | Atlanta Bravespitching coach(interim) April 29, 2011 – May 14, 2011 | Succeeded by |
| Preceded by Bill Castro(interim) | Baltimore Oriolespitching coach 2014–2016 | Succeeded by |
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