Dave McKay (baseball)

Dave McKay
McKay with the Arizona Diamondbacks
Arizona Diamondbacks – No. 39
First base coach/second baseman/third baseman
Born: (1950-03-14) March 14, 1950 (age 66) Vancouver, British Columbia
Batted: Switch Threw: Right
MLB debut
August 22, 1975, for the Minnesota Twins
Last MLB appearance
October 3, 1982, for the Oakland Athletics
MLB statistics
Batting average	.229
Home runs	21
Runs batted in	170
Teams
As player Minnesota Twins (1975–1976) Toronto Blue Jays (1977–1979) Oakland Athletics (1980–1982) As coach Oakland Athletics (1984–1995) St. Louis Cardinals (1996–2011) Chicago Cubs (2012–2013) Arizona Diamondbacks (2014–present)

As player

As coach

David Lawrence McKay (born March 14, 1950 in Vancouver, British Columbia) is a Canadian former Major League Baseball player and a longtime coach at the MLB level, currently the first base coach for the Arizona Diamondbacks. As an active player, he was an infielder for the Minnesota Twins, Toronto Blue Jays (where he was a player for the maiden edition of the Jays as an expansion team) and the Oakland Athletics. He is the father of Cody McKay.

He is a member of the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame, elected in 2001. He was inducted into the Columbia Basin College Hall of Fame in January 2012.

McKay signed as an amateur free agent with the Minnesota Twins on June 20, 1971, and worked his way through the Twins minor league organization. McKay made his Major League debut on August 22, 1975, hitting a home run in his first at-bat against Vern Ruhle of the Detroit Tigers in an 8-4 victory. McKay appeared in 35 games with the Twins, hitting .256 with two home runs and 16 runs batted in.

He spent the majority of the 1976 season in the minor leagues, but McKay did appear in 45 games with Minnesota, batting .203 with no homers and eight RBI. On November 5, the Twins left McKay unprotected at the 1976 MLB expansion draft, and he was selected by the Toronto Blue Jays.

McKay was the Blue Jays starting third baseman for their first ever game on April 7, as the Canadian-born player had two hits in Toronto's 9-5 victory over the Chicago White Sox. In 95 games with the Blue Jays, McKay hit .197 with three home runs and 22 RBI, splitting time between second base, third base and shortstop.