Jim Beattie (baseball)

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6+1⁄3 innings and gave up just one run in his major league debut to beat Hall of Famer Jim Palmer and the Baltimore Orioles. [9] After a second win against the Chicago White Sox on May 15, Beattie lost his next seven decisions in a row. [10] He was, however, on the mound for two of the Yankees' most important games that September. With the Yankees having been as far back as fourteen games to the Boston Red Sox on July 19, they surged to just four games back by the time they headed to Fenway Park for a four-game set from September 7–10. Beattie started the second game of the series, holding Boston to just three hits and no runs over his first eight innings of work. After the Red Sox scored two unearned runs in the ninth, he handed the ball over to Ron Davis for the final out. [11] The Yankees swept the series to move into a tie with Boston. They moved on to Detroit for a three-game set next, and Beattie won the second game of that series to give the Yankees sole possession of first place. [12] He finished his rookie season with a 6–9 record and a 3.73 earned run average (ERA) in 25 games (22 starts). [13]

Following a one-game playoff with the Red Sox, the Yankees headed into the postseason. Beattie won Game 1 of the 1978 American League Championship Series against the Kansas City Royals, [14] and earned a complete game victory over the Los Angeles Dodgers in Game 5 of the World Series. [15]

Despite his late season and postseason heroics, Beattie failed to make the club the following spring. [16] He was, however, called up by the beginning of May. On June 20, a line drive off the bat of the Toronto Blue Jays' John Mayberry shelved Beattie for two months. [17] On September 12, 1979, Boston Red Sox legend Carl Yastrzemski singled off Beattie for his 3,000th career hit. [18] After the season, he, Rick Anderson, Juan Beníquez and Jerry Narron were traded to the Seattle Mariners for Ruppert Jones and Jim Lewis. [19]

Seattle Mariners

Despite posting a 5.01 ERA, Beattie's record stood at 3–3 on May 21, 1980 following a victory over the Milwaukee Brewers. [20] He only won two more games for the rest of the season, and finished at 5–15 with a 4.85 ERA in 33 games (29 starts). [13] Beattie started the 1981 season in the bullpen, but after getting rocked in three outings, he was reassigned to the Triple-A Pacific Coast League Spokane Indians. He returned to the majors after the 1981 Major League Baseball strike, and pitch an eight inning gem against the California Angels on August 11 for his first victory of the season. [21] Beattie went 3–2 with one save with a 2.02 ERA while holding batters to a .212 batting average in the second half, as opposed to the eight earned runs he gave up in 4+1⁄3 innings of work prior to his demotion to Spokane. [22] His one and only career save came during a wild 20-inning game on September 3, 1981. The Mariners defeated the Red Sox at Fenway Park 8–7 in a 20-inning game. Beattie recorded the final out of the game to nail down the victory. [23] His success carried over into the 1982 season. Despite an 8–12 record, his 3.34 ERA was seventh-best in the American League, 140 strikeouts was eighth-best, and the .233 batting average he held batters to was sixth-best. [13] [24]

On September 27, 1983, Beattie hurled the first one-hitter in Seattle Mariners history against the Kansas City Royals. Outside of a U.L. Washington single in the third inning, Beattie was perfect. [25] Perhaps the second-best pitching performance of his career came in a losing effort. On July 25, 1984, he and the California Angels' Ron Romanick locked up in a pitchers' duel. Beattie pitched nine innings of one-hit ball while striking out nine. With the game still scoreless heading into extra innings, Beattie took the mound again in the tenth inning, where Gary Pettis ended it with a two-out walk-off single. After the game, Beattie smashed a water cooler and refused to talk to reporters. [26]

Beattie began dealing with shoulder tendinitis late in his career. [27] He missed six weeks of the 1985 season with tendinitis, [28] then tore his rotator cuff upon his return. [29]

Beattie returned from surgery midway through the 1986 season. He pitched effectively in his first start against the Chicago White Sox on June 12, and was in line for the victory until the bullpen imploded. [30] From there, Beattie himself imploded as he went 0–6 with a 6.02 ERA in nine games (seven starts) through August 7, when he was placed back on the disabled list. [13]

Post-playing career

Rather than trying to catch on with another big league club after being released by the Mariners, Beattie opted to go back to school. He received his M.B.A. from the University of Washington in 1989 (he also has a bachelor's degree from Dartmouth), then returned to the Mariners as their player development director in 1990. Beattie remained in that position through the 1995 season, when he was named general manager and vice president of the Montreal Expos. [31] He quit at the end of the 2001 season; after a year away from the game, he joined the Baltimore Orioles as executive vice president of baseball operations. [32] He served as co-GM of the Orioles with former Orioles pitcher Mike Flanagan through the 2005 season, when Flanagan was given the job solely. [33] When Boston Red Sox GM Theo Epstein threatened to leave the Red Sox shortly afterwards, Beattie interviewed for the job. [34] He also interviewed for the vacant Houston Astros GM job in 2007. [35]

In something of an unexpected career turn, Beattie finished the 2007 season as the Florida Marlins' bullpen coach. After former bullpen coach Steve Foster became Florida's pitching coach following Rick Kranitz's departure, Beattie jokingly offered his services to Marlins GM Larry Beinfest, and Beinfest took him up on his offer. [36] Beattie was also rumored to be a candidate for the Marlins' pitching coach position in 2008, but the job instead went to Mark Wiley. [36] [37]

Sources

  1. ↑ "Jim Beattie". Columns: The University of Washington Alumni Magazine. June 1999.
  2. ↑ "Toronto Blue Jays Front Office Directory". Toronto Blue Jays . MLB.com. Archived from the original on February 3, 2007. Retrieved August 26, 2012.
  3. ↑ "Jim Beattie comes home to Maine to large welcome". Bangor Daily News . Associated Press. December 8, 1978. p. 26. Retrieved July 20, 2014– via Google News.
  4. ↑ "Yanks Beattie Hurling Himself to Job". Ocala Star-Banner . Associated Press. March 27, 1978 – via Google News.
  5. ↑ "Major League Baseball Players From the Cape Cod League" (PDF). Cape Cod Baseball League . Retrieved September 25, 2019.
  6. ↑ "Local Players Stand Out on All-Star Squad". The Cape Codder. Orleans, MA. July 25, 1974. p. 31.
  7. ↑ "4th Round of the 1975 MLB June Amateur Draft". Baseball-Reference.com . Retrieved March 19, 2023.
  8. ↑ "Yankee Buying Sprees Destroying Morale Among Minor Leaguers". The Miami News . December 20, 1977 – via Google News.[ dead link ]
  9. ↑ "New York Yankees 4, Baltimore Orioles 3". Baseball-Reference.com . Sports Reference. April 25, 1978.
  10. ↑ "Jim Beattie 1978 Pitching Game Logs". Baseball-Reference.com . Retrieved March 19, 2023.
  11. ↑ "New York Yankees 13, Boston Red Sox 2". Baseball-Reference.com . Sports Reference. September 8, 1978.
  12. ↑ "New York Yankees 7, Detroit Tigers 3". Baseball-Reference.com . Sports Reference. September 13, 1978.
  13. 1 2 3 4 "Jim Beattie Stats, Height, Weight, Position, Rookie Status & More". Baseball-Reference.com . Retrieved March 19, 2023.
  14. ↑ "1978 American League Championship Series, Game One". Baseball-Reference.com . Sports Reference. October 3, 1978.
  15. ↑ "1978 World Series, Game Five". Baseball-Reference.com . Sports Reference. October 15, 1978.
  16. ↑ "Jim Beattie Shipped Out by Yankees". The Spokesman-Review . April 3, 1979 – via Google News.
  17. ↑ "Yanks Edge Jays for Billy's First". Wilmington Morning Star . Associated Press. June 21, 1979 – via Google News.
  18. ↑ "Yastrzemski Collects 3,000th Hit". The Morning Record and Journal . UPI. September 13, 1979 – via Google News.
  19. ↑ Durso, Joseph (November 2, 1979). "Yanks Trade Chambliss, Beattie; 12 Players Exchanged In 2 Deals". The New York Times . ISSN   0362-4331 . Retrieved March 19, 2023.
  20. ↑ "Milwaukee Brewers vs Seattle Mariners Box Score: May 21, 1980". Baseball-Reference.com . May 21, 1980. Retrieved March 19, 2023.
  21. ↑ "Seattle Mariners 4, California Angels 1". Baseball-Reference.com . Sports Reference. August 11, 1981.
  22. ↑ "Jim Beattie 1981 Pitching Splits". Baseball-Reference.com . Retrieved March 19, 2023.
  23. ↑ "Seattle Mariners at Boston Red Sox Box Score, September 3, 1981". Baseball-Reference.com . September 3, 1981.
  24. ↑ "1982 American League Pitching Leaders". Baseball-Reference.com . Retrieved March 19, 2023.
  25. ↑ "Jim Beattie One-Hitter Beats KC". Portsmouth Daily Times . Associated Press. September 28, 1983 – via Google News.
  26. ↑ "Crushed Beattie Smashes Cooler". Spokane Chronicle . Associated Press. July 26, 1984 – via Google News.
  27. ↑ "Mariners' Beattie Back on Track". Albany Sunday Herald. Associated Press. July 1, 1984 – via Google News.
  28. ↑ "Tommy John Returns with Win". Madison Courier. Associated Press. July 27, 1985 – via Google News.
  29. ↑ "Pact Approved". Spartanburg Herald-Journal . August 29, 1985 – via Google News.
  30. ↑ "Chicago White Sox 8, Seattle Mariners 4". Baseball-Reference.com . Sports Reference. August 11, 1981.
  31. ↑ Finnigan, Bob (October 27, 1995). "Expos Name Mariners' Jim Beattie As New GM". The Seattle Times .
  32. ↑ Ginsburg, Dave (December 5, 2002). "Orioles appoint two for front-office duty". USA Today . Associated Press.
  33. ↑ "O's promote Flanagan, reportedly to keep Perlozzo". ESPN . October 11, 2005.
  34. ↑ "Bowden, Beattie to interview for Red Sox GM post". ESPN . November 9, 2005.
  35. ↑ "Astros' GM search: 3 interviews down, 4 to go". ESPN . Associated Press. September 5, 2007. Retrieved March 19, 2023.
  36. 1 2 Frisaro, Joe (September 26, 2007). "Notes: Beattie in pitching coach mix". Florida Marlins . MLB.com. Archived from the original on December 21, 2007.
  37. ↑ "Wiley hired for 2nd stint as Marlins' pitching coach". ESPN . Associated Press. November 2, 2007. Retrieved March 19, 2023.
Jim Beattie
1986 Mother's Cookies - Jim Beattie.jpg
Pitcher
Born: (1954-07-04) July 4, 1954 (age 69)
Hampton, Virginia, U.S.
Batted: Right
Threw: Right
MLB debut
April 25, 1978, for the New York Yankees
Last MLB appearance
August 5, 1986, for the Seattle Mariners
Preceded by Montreal Expos General Manager
1995–2001		Succeeded by
Preceded by Baltimore Orioles General Manager (with Mike Flanagan)
2003–2005		Succeeded by
Mike Flanagan

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