Gary DiSarcina

Gary DiSarcina
DiSarcina with the California Angels
Boston Red Sox – No. 10
Shortstop / Coach
Born: (1967-11-19) November 19, 1967 (age 49) Malden, Massachusetts
Batted: Right Threw: Right
MLB debut
September 23, 1989, for the California Angels
Last MLB appearance
May 8, 2000, for the Anaheim Angels
MLB statistics
Batting average	.258
Home runs	28
Runs batted in	355
Teams
California / Anaheim Angels (1989–2000)
Career highlights and awards
All-Star (1995)

Gary Thomas DiSarcina (born November 19, 1967) is an American professional baseball coach. For the 2017 season, he rejoins the Boston Red Sox organization as its Major League (MLB) bench coach, after spending 2014–16 as a coach for the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, the team for which he played his entire MLB career.

A former shortstop who stood 6 feet 1 inch (1.85 m) tall and weighed 170 pounds (77 kg), DiSarcina was raised in Billerica, Massachusetts, and attended the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He was drafted by the California Angels in the sixth round of the 1988 amateur draft.

After brief Major League trials from 1989–91, DiSarcina replaced Dick Schofield as the Angels' regular shortstop in 1992 and held the job through 1998. He was selected to the American League All-Star team in 1995, a strike-shortened year when he batted a career-high .307 in 99 games played. He missed six weeks of action during that season, from August 4 through September 18, after sustaining a torn ligament in his thumb.

In 1998, his finest all-around season, he was voted the Angels' team MVP. That year, in 157 games played, DiSarcina reached career highs in hits (158) and runs batted in (56), while batting .287. But it was his last full season as a player; his career, hampered by injuries — including a broken arm that cost him half of the 1999 season — wound down during the next two years. He played only 12 games in 2000 and was out of baseball in 2001 before attempting a final comeback in 2002 in the Red Sox organization with the Pawtucket Red Sox.