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| Born:December 14, 1956 New York, New York | |
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Joseph M. Rigoli (born December 14,1956,in New York City) is an American professional baseball scout,and a former coach in the Major Leagues for the Philadelphia Phillies. A longtime scout for the St. Louis Cardinals, [1] he is a member of the Professional Baseball Scouts Hall of Fame. [2]
Rigoli's playing career was brief. After appearing in only two games for the 1978 Bend Timber Hawks of the Short Season-A Northwest League,an affiliate of the Oakland Athletics,he played in 29 games the following season for the 1979 Newark Co-Pilots,a co-op (unaffiliated) club in the Short Season-A New York–Penn League,collecting 14 hits in 61 at bats (.230) in a utility role,playing catcher,outfielder and second base. He first joined the Cardinals in 1981 as a minor league manager for the Class A level Gastonia Cardinals. In 1984,while piloting the Springfield Cardinals of the Midwest League,he filled in as a pitcher on four occasions,compiling a 6.43 earned run average in seven innings pitched. [3]
After scouting for the Cardinals during the late 1980s through the mid-1990s,he joined the Phillies in 1996 as a bullpen coach,working on the staff of manager Jim Fregosi. He spent 1997 in the same role under new skipper Terry Francona but in 1998 he returned to the Redbirds as a minor-league coach. In 2013 he was listed as a member of the Cardinals' professional scouting staff,based in Parsippany,New Jersey.