Bill Doran (baseball)
| Bill Doran | |||
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| Second baseman | |||
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Born: May 28, 1958 Cincinnati, Ohio |
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| MLB debut | |||
| September 6, 1982, for the Houston Astros | |||
| Last MLB appearance | |||
| July 8, 1993, for the Milwaukee Brewers | |||
| MLB statistics | |||
| Batting average | .266 | ||
| Home runs | 84 | ||
| Runs batted in | 497 | ||
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William Donald Doran (born May 28, 1958) is a former second baseman in Major League Baseball who played from 1982 to 1993 with the Houston Astros (drafted in 6th round of 1979), Cincinnati Reds, and Milwaukee Brewers. He was the bench coach for the Kansas City Royals from 2005 to 2007 and posted a 4-6 record as the Royals' interim manager to close the 2006 season. Doran rejoined the Cincinnati Reds on November 2, 2007, as the minor league infielding/baserunning coordinator.
Doran attended Mount Healthy High School and played baseball at the Miami University in Oxford, Ohio.
Doran was selected by the Houston Astros in the sixth round of the 1979 draft. He made his major league debut with the team in 1982. In 1986, the Astros went to the playoffs and Doran finished eleventh in the voting for NL Most Valuable Player. In the 1986 National League Championship Series, Doran hit a two-run home run in a Game Three loss for the Astros.
Before the 1987 season, Doran lost an arbitration case with the Astros. Paid $550,000 in 1986, he was seeking $825,000. Doran received only $625,000. He had his best year that season. He led the NL in games played (162), batted .283, hit a career high 16 home runs, had a career high .992 fielding percentage, and scored a career high 79 runs. After the 1988 season, Doran underwent rotator cuff surgery.
In August 1990, Doran was traded to the Cincinnati Reds for three players to be named later. He turned down a trade to the New York Mets the day before. Although the Reds won the World Series that year, Doran had back surgery the day the team clinched the division pennant and he missed the rest of the season. "I didn't feel like I belonged. I was just a rented player", Doran said. In 1992, Cincinnati's Bip Roberts emerged as a standout second baseman and made the NL All-Star team. The Reds sold Doran to the Milwaukee Brewers in January 1993. He retired in 1993 after struggling with injuries that season.
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