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 Al Pedrique   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
In his 174-game career Pedrique hit for.247 (111-449), with one home run, 36 runs batted in, 32 runs scored, 18 doubles, 1 triple and 5 stolen bases.
In 2003, Pedrique came back to the majors as a third base coach for the Arizona Diamondbacks, after managing the Tucson Sidewinders to a pair of seasons above.500 - the only two since the franchise joined the Diamondbacks organization as their AAA affiliate in 1998.
Pedrique managed the Diamondbacks' AA affiliate in El Paso during 2001, and Houston 's Single- A team in Michigan for two seasons.
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 AZSPORTSFAN.COM: Members: Sports Page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Pedrique replaces Bob Brenly, who was dismissed from his managerial role earlier today.
Pedrique's 2003 club finished with a 73-71 record despite using 62 different players during the course of the season.
Al joins Ozzie Guillen, in his first year at the helm with the Chicago White Sox, as the only natives of Venezuela to ever manage a major league team.
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 11/17/04 - The Apprentice
Pedrique will be a liaison with the new assistant general manager when dealing with the farm system.
Enos Cabell is an African-American and Al Pedrique is Hispanic.
Pedrique and Cabell are good baseball people, but they are miscast in their roles as special assistants to the general manager.
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 Al Pedrique Baseball Stats by Baseball Almanac
A l Pedrique was born on Thursday, August 11, 1960, in Valencia, Venezuela.
Pedrique was 27 years old when he broke into the big leagues on April 14, 1987, with the New York Mets, and his Major League Baseball stats for every season he played, along with his career totals are on this page.
A l Pedrique's biographical data, year-by-year hitting stats, fielding stats, pitching stats (where applicable) career totals, uniform numbers, salary data and miscellaneous items-of-interest are presented by Baseball Almanac on this Al Pedrique baseball statistics page.
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 Sports Network
Pedrique took over as manager of the Diamondbacks after Bob Brenly was fired earlier on Friday.
Pedrique had been serving as the third base coach for Arizona.
The 43-year-old Pedrique joined the Diamondbacks this year after spending eight of the last nine seasons as a minor league manager.
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 As Pedrique evaluates players, D'backs evaluate Pedrique | www.azstarnet.com ®
Both know exactly what Pedrique is doing as the interim manager of the Diamondbacks, a job he took after being promoted from third base coach when Bob Brenly was dismissed July 2.
Pedrique is working to provide on-the-job training to a D'backs roster composed of mainly fresh-faced minor- league players.
Pedrique worked with many of the current D'backs during his two years as the Sidewinders' manager before moving up to the major-league staff this season, although their ascension was not expected to come as quickly as his.
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 FutureBacks.com: The Inside Pitch
This week we take on Al Pedrique's path to the majors, and what the fork in the road might be in the future.
When Al Pedrique left his post as manager of the Triple-A Tucson Sidewinders to become third base coach for the Diamondbacks this season, he did so with a bittersweet attitude because he loved the ability he had to teach and manage young prospects and send them on their way to a career in the majors.
Pedrique, 43, replaced the fired Bob Brenly as Diamondbacks manager on Friday (July 2), and he inherits a team stocked full of prospects he tutored last season in Tucson.
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 Major League Baseball : News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Pedrique gets his first shot at managing at the Major League level after eight years as a skipper in the minor leagues.
Pedrique was signed as a non-drafted free agent by the Mets in 1978 and played nine-plus years in the minor leagues before making his Major League debut during the 1987 season.
Pedrique planned few changes to the lineup, though he did say that shortstop Alex Cintron, who has had a tough year, would be back in it.
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 Rotohelp.com
Pedrique has established his credentials and now needs to demonstrate his abilities in the majors.
Pedrique also mentioned the Diamondbacks' practice of monitoring the pitch counts of their minor league players, so he is aware of the need to protect young arms.
Pedrique's promotion obviously left the Diamondbacks with an open coaching position at third base, but Arizona's coaching staff underwent several other changes as well.
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 WOAI: San Antonio News - Cabell, Pedrique added to Houston's staff   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Pedrique, meanwhile, joins the Astros from the Arizona Diamondbacks, where he served as the interim manager for the remainder of the 2004 season after replacing Bob Brenly on July 2.
Pedrique will assess the team's major league and minor league talent, including considerable emphasis on the evaluation of Houston's programs and players in Latin America.
"Al is one of the finest baseball men I have ever been around," said Purpura.
www.kmol.com /sports/mlb/story.aspx?content_id=85170B9F-1050-473B-BE8D-6A87B8B6A91B   (242 words)

  
 Greg Hansen: Auditioning for a job | www.azstarnet.com ®
Pedrique won his first game on Sunday, a 6-2 Randy Johnson masterpiece over the Minnesota Twins, leaving him 3,730 manager victories behind Connie Mack and 41 in arrears of fellow Venezuelan Ozzie Guillen, rookie manager of the White Sox.
Pedrique was so overwhelmed by the magnitude of becoming a big-league manager that he went home late Friday night and tried to make sense of his new life.
Pedrique has 80 more games to exhibit that he can restore some life into the fading Diamondbacks, a daunting challenge given a pitching rotation that, after the Big Unit, might have difficulty winning in the Pacific Coast League.
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 Al Pedrique - RBIdb
Al Pedrique is the #8 hitter and starting shortstop for the NL All-Stars on the NES version of RBI.
Pedrique fell apart after his rookie season, hitting.180 the next season and being out of baseball the year after that.
Pedrique later became manager of the Arizona Dianondbacks after the departure of Bob Brenly.
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Pedrique, who was not named one of the team's three managerial finalists, said he was told by the team that they wanted him to remain in the organization.
Pedrique managed the team the rest of the 2004 season after Bob Brenly was fired mid-season.
Updating a previous item, The Arizona Republic's Mark Gonzales reports Arizona Diamondbacks MAN Al Pedrique said RP Randy Choate 's demotion to Triple-A Tucson will give him an opportunity to "work on a few things," but that he should return later this season.
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 Pedrique wants to stick as coach   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Al Pedrique won't return as manager of the Diamondbacks next season, but he could be invited back as the club's third base coach under the yet-to-be-named manager.
Pedrique, who went 22-61 as the club's interim manager during the final three months of the season, said he wasn't given specific reasons for not being asked to continue with the interview process.
Pedrique said he hasn't contacted other clubs at the major league level, and he wouldn't be interested in accepting a role in the minor leagues, where he spent the nine previous seasons, eight as a manager.
www.azcentral.com /sports/diamondbacks/articles/1026dbackspedrique1026.html   (505 words)

  
 Nebur's World: The Hot Stove: Nine Minus One (Just Another Baja Story)
al had been down there at least once more than i had, maybe back in 1990 or so.
al had some of that yellow, plastic rope that he was using as trailing line for his speargun.
al pedrique's truck in the middle of nowhere
nebursworld.blogspot.com /2005/02/hot-stove-nine-minus-one-just-another.html   (1901 words)

  
 D-Backs Name Pedrique Interim Manager   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Pedrique, previously third-base coach, replaces Bob Brenly, who was fired Friday in the midst of the Diamonback's worst season since their expansion campaign of 1998.
Pedrique, who played parts of three seasons with the New York Mets, Pittsburgh and Detroit, was a manager in the minors for eight seasons.
Pedrique said the only immediate change would be to reinstall Alex Cintron as the everyday shortstop.
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 Arizona Diamondbacks News
According to manager Al Pedrique, Cormier, one of the best pitching prospects in the organization, will remain in the rotation the rest of the season, as will another top prospect, right-hander Edgar Gonzalez, who started against Houston on Thursday.
Pedrique said that he has heard good reports on Cormier regarding his recent work in Tucson.
Pedrique, a former Major League infielder, also did some hands-on instruction with Cintron, paying extra attention to his footwork as it relates to getting a better jump on ground balls.
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 Rotohelp.com
Pedrique's a very old school baseball lifer, and although he's likely to emerge as the first Venezuelan manager in the big leagues in a few years, we were unimpressed with his discussion.
Although Pedrique may have ducked the question by responding something like "we look for players who can win", he likely failed to understand the question, suggesting very strongly that the Diamondbacks don't look at any stats in player development, a concept anathema to most of Pedrique's audience.
Pedrique also expressed his opinion that he didn't believe that anyone in the AFL was ready for the majors, as even Hee Seop Choi needed more development time because of the holes in his swing.
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 Anonymity Pedrique's goal | The Arizona Daily Star ®
Like all third base coaches, Pedrique has two major responsibilities once a game begins - taking the manager's signals from the dugout and relaying them to the batter and the base runners, and deciding what to do with his runners once the ball is put in play.
It is all in a day's work for Pedrique, a man who has been involved with baseball since he was 5 years old, when he and his family traveled through Venezuela to watch his father play for the national air force team.
Pedrique signed a pro contract with the Mets at 17 and spent the next 17 years playing pro ball, reaching the major leagues with the Mets in 1987.
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 'Brenly getting fired basically means this organization ... has failed' | Arizona Daily Star ®
The selection of Al Pedrique as Diamondbacks interim manager seems like a good fit, people who have worked with the former Sidewinders skipper say.
While Hale expressed his happiness for Pedrique, the former UA baseball standout noted that now is not the time for too much celebrating, with the Diamondbacks well below.500 and tied for last place in the NL West.
Pedrique did add one fresh face to his on-field staff, naming Lorenzo Bundy as his bench coach.
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 Houston Astros News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Al Pedrique returns to the Astros organization after working with the Diamondbacks.
Pedrique also held the manager's post in the Diamondbacks organization at Double-A El Paso in 2001 and at Triple-A Tucson during 2002-03.
Pedrique's duties will include assessing the club's Major League and minor league talent, along with considerable emphasis on the evaluation of the Astros programs and players in Latin America.
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 pedrique: Pedrique hopeful after interview   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Al Pedrique said he walked away with a
Former Diamondbacks interim manager Al Pedrique said the club has let him know he could be welcomed back into the organization, possibly as the team's third base coach.
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 ESPN.com - MLB - D-Backs replace Brenly with third-base coach   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Diamondbacks' third-base coach Al Pedrique was named interim manager for the remainder of the season.
Pedrique, who played parts of three seasons with the Mets, Pittsburgh and Detroit, was a manager in the minors for eight seasons.
Pedrique, 43, was born in Venezuela, and his ability to speak Spanish and English also will help, said Arizona outfielder Luis Gonzalez, who also is bilingual.
sports.espn.go.com /mlb/news/story?id=1833440   (1190 words)

  
 East Valley Tribune | Daily Arizona news for Chandler, Gilbert, Tempe, Mesa, Scottsdale
With lefty Odalis Perez starting for Los Angeles, manager Al Pedrique figured it was a good time to sit the slumping left-handed hitters.
Pedrique said Elmer Dessens will be limited to about 80 pitches today in his second start since reentering the rotation.
Pedrique said catcher Brent Mayne will start today for the first time since coming off the disabled list Thursday.
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 Major League Baseball - CBS SportsLine.com
But in the AL, the top six wild-card contenders include three teams that generally were not expected to fight for a possible playoff spot -- the Rangers, Indians and Orioles.
Victor Martinez and the Indians have stealthily ascended the AL wild-card ladder.
The AL has made a huge mistake by not leaving this sleeping giant in the dust.
www.cbssports.com /mlb/story/7563834   (1561 words)

  
 sPERTS.net - Like Bonds, managers should play the game - Thursday, September 16th, 2004
Pedrique: Yes, but it was a young team with a lot of unproven talent.
Pedrique still has a job as of now, but given the way he conducted himself during the three-game series with the Giants earlier this week, I believe he wants to get fired.
Pedrique issued intentional walks to Bonds when they were down five runs and six runs in separate games.
www.sperts.net /editorial.php?page=122&author=Jim   (1076 words)

  
 Baseball Is My Life   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Al Pedrique is a good third base coach.
Al Pedrique's hopes of retaining his job as manager of the Diamondbacks got a little stronger Sunday.
He said Pedrique has earned the right to be included in the list of candidates.
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