Rick Honeycutt

Rick Honeycutt
Honeycutt with the Los Angeles Dodgers
Los Angeles Dodgers – No. 40
Pitcher / Pitching Coach
Born: (1954-06-29) June 29, 1954 (age 62) Chattanooga, Tennessee
Batted: Left Threw: Left
MLB debut
August 24, 1977, for the Seattle Mariners
Last MLB appearance
May 2, 1997, for the St. Louis Cardinals
MLB statistics
Win–loss record	109–143
Earned run average	3.72
Strikeouts	1,038
Teams
As player Seattle Mariners (1977–1980) Texas Rangers (1981–1983) Los Angeles Dodgers (1983–1987) Oakland Athletics (1987–1993) Texas Rangers (1994) Oakland Athletics (1995) New York Yankees (1995) St. Louis Cardinals (1996–1997) As coach Los Angeles Dodgers (2006–present)
Career highlights and awards
2× All-Star (1980, 1983) World Series champion (1989) AL ERA leader (1983)

As player

As coach

Frederick Wayne "Rick" Honeycutt (born June 29, 1954) is the pitching coach for the Los Angeles Dodgers. Honeycutt was a left-handed pitcher for 6 different teams over 21 years from 1977 to 1997. He pitched in 30 post-season games, including 20 league championship series games and 7 World Series games, and never lost a game, going 3-0. Honeycutt gave up zero runs in the 1988 and 1990 post-seasons, and was a member of the Oakland Athletics 1989 World Series championship team.

Honeycutt was born in Chattanooga, Tennessee, and graduated from Lakeview – Fort Oglethorpe High School in Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia.

Honeycutt played for the Tennessee Volunteers baseball team from 1973–1976, where he was an All-American first baseman-pitcher and won the Southeastern Conference batting title with a .404 mark. He played summer ball in Liberal, Kansas, in the Jayhawk League, for Bob Cerv. A teammate there, who played SS, was Condredge Holloway, a fellow U. of Tennessee baseball and football star.

Honeycutt was originally drafted in the 17th round of the 1976 draft by the Pittsburgh Pirates. After  1 ¹⁄₂ seasons in their minor league system, the Pirates traded him to the Seattle Mariners in August 1977 to complete an earlier trade for Dave Pagan.

He made his major league debut on August 24, 1977 against the Toronto Blue Jays. He pitched two innings of relief, struck out 3, allowed 2 hits and no runs. His first start was against the New York Yankees on August 31. He pitched 7.1 innings in that start, allowing 3 runs. He finished the season 0-1, but got his first victory in his first start the following year, beating the Minnesota Twins on April 7, 1978.