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Bob Randall | |
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Second baseman | |
Born: Norton, Kansas, U.S. | June 10, 1948|
Batted: Right Threw: Right | |
MLB debut | |
April 13, 1976, for the Minnesota Twins | |
Last MLB appearance | |
May 31, 1980, for the Minnesota Twins | |
MLB statistics | |
Batting average | .257 |
Home runs | 1 |
Runs batted in | 91 |
Teams | |
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Robert Lee Randall (born June 10,1948) is an American former professional baseball second baseman and college baseball coach. He played five seasons in Major League Baseball from 1976 until 1980,all for the Minnesota Twins. The native of Gove,Kansas threw and batted right-handed and was listed as 6 feet 2 inches (1.88 m) tall and 175 pounds (79 kg). He graduated from Gove High School and Kansas State University.
Randall was selected by the Los Angeles Dodgers in three separate drafts:1966,1968,and finally the 2nd round in 1969,after which he signed. For the next five and a half years,he played 744 games in the Dodgers' farm system and batted over .300 four times,but was never promoted to the major league level. Then,on December 23,1975,he got his first break when he was traded to the Twins in exchange for reserve outfielder Danny Walton.
Randall's second,perhaps more important,break was Minnesota manager Gene Mauch's decision to move future Hall of Famer Rod Carew to first base,opening up second base for Randall,who beat out Jerry Terrell for the job in spring training. Randall capitalized on the opportunity,batting .267 in 153 games in 1976 while finishing fourth in the American League in sacrifice hits.
That turned out to be the high mark of Randall's career. He spent the next two seasons splitting time at second base with Rob Wilfong,losing the starting job to the lefty-hitting Wilfong entirely in 1979. The following spring,he was released by the Twins and briefly served as a coach,then was restored to the active playing roster in May. He appeared in just five games in the majors in 1980,going 3-for-15,before being released,and Randall retired soon afterwards. For his MLB career,he collected 341 hits,including 50 doubles,nine triples,and one home run,a solo blow hit June 23,1976,against Chris Knapp of the Chicago White Sox at Metropolitan Stadium. [1] Randall batted .257 lifetime with 91 runs batted in.
Following Randall's major league career,he turned to the college coaching ranks. He was head baseball coach at Iowa State University from 1985 to 1995,going 309–311–1 before leaving to be head coach at the University of Kansas from 1996 until 2002,going 166–213. [2] He is currently the assistant baseball coach and a professor of economics at Manhattan Christian College.
Season | Team | Overall | Conference | Standing | Postseason | ||||
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Iowa State Cyclones (Big Eight Conference)(1985–1995) | |||||||||
1985 [3] | Iowa State | 22–38 | 6–15 | ||||||
1986 [4] | Iowa State | 25–33–1 | 6–17 | ||||||
1987 [5] | Iowa State | 25–27 | 7–13 | ||||||
1988 [6] | Iowa State | 27–31 | 8–16 | T–5th | |||||
1989 [7] | Iowa State | 33–27 | 11–13 | ||||||
1990 | Iowa State | 36–26 | |||||||
1991 [8] | Iowa State | 33–26 | 12–12 | ||||||
1992 [9] [10] | Iowa State | 33–23 | 11–13 | T–4th | |||||
1993 [11] [12] | Iowa State | 17–28 | 5–18 | 7th | |||||
1994 [13] [14] | Iowa State | 30–28 | 15–14 | 4th | |||||
1995 [15] | Iowa State | 28–24 | 13–12 | ||||||
Iowa State: | 309–311–1 | ||||||||
Kansas Jayhawks (Big Eight Conference)(1996) | |||||||||
1996 | Kansas | 26–30 | 11–17 | 6th | |||||
Kansas Jayhawks (Big 12 Conference)(1997–2002) | |||||||||
1997 | Kansas | 31–25 | 12–18 | 8th | |||||
1998 | Kansas | 22–29 | 7–20 | 11th | |||||
1999 | Kansas | 14–40 | 4–26 | 10th | |||||
2000 | Kansas | 25–30 | 10–20 | 9th | |||||
2001 | Kansas | 26–30 | 7–23 | 11th | |||||
2002 | Kansas | 22–29 | 5–21 | 10th | |||||
Kansas: | 166–213 | ||||||||
Total: | 475–524–1 | ||||||||
National champion Postseason invitational champion |
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