Rubén Amaro Jr. | |||
---|---|---|---|
Amaro in April 2010
|
|||
Boston Red Sox – No. 20 | |||
Outfielder/General manager/Coach | |||
Born: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
February 12, 1965 |||
|
|||
MLB debut | |||
June 8, 1991, for the California Angels | |||
Last MLB appearance | |||
September 27, 1998, for the Philadelphia Phillies | |||
MLB statistics | |||
Batting average | .235 | ||
Home runs | 16 | ||
Runs batted in | 100 | ||
Teams | |||
As player
As general manager As coach
|
|||
Career highlights and awards | |||
|
As player
As general manager
As coach
Rubén Amaro Jr. (born February 12, 1965) is an American former professional baseball player and General Manager who is the first base coach of the Boston Red Sox of Major League Baseball, as of the 2016 season. It is his first coaching job. He played in Major League Baseball as an outfielder from 1991 to 1998. Amaro was named the General Manager of the Philadelphia Phillies on November 3, 2008, succeeding Pat Gillick and remained in that position until September 10, 2015. He is the son of former Major League Baseball player Rubén Amaro Sr.
Born and raised in the Rhawnhurst neighborhood of Northeast Philadelphia, Amaro played Little League Baseball for Crispin Gardens. Amaro is Jewish; his mother Judy Amaro-Perez (née Herman) is of Russian-Jewish heritage and his father is a Marrano Sephardic Mexican-Cuban. He later was a batboy for the Phillies from 1980 to 1983 when his father, Rubén Amaro Sr., was their first base coach.
Amaro graduated from William Penn Charter School in 1983, where he played baseball and soccer. He graduated from Stanford University in 1987. He was a member of the Stanford team that won the NCAA 1987 College World Series. He led the team in runs (77), triples (6), and stolen bases (38) that year.