Terry Francona | |||||||||||||||
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First baseman / Outfielder / Manager | |||||||||||||||
Born: Aberdeen, South Dakota, U.S. | April 22, 1959|||||||||||||||
Batted: Left Threw: Left | |||||||||||||||
MLB debut | |||||||||||||||
August 19, 1981, for the Montreal Expos | |||||||||||||||
Last MLB appearance | |||||||||||||||
April 19, 1990, for the Milwaukee Brewers | |||||||||||||||
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Batting average | .274 | ||||||||||||||
Home runs | 16 | ||||||||||||||
Runs batted in | 143 | ||||||||||||||
Managerial record | 1,950–1,672 | ||||||||||||||
Winning % | .538 | ||||||||||||||
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Terrence Jon Francona (born April 22, 1959), nicknamed "Tito", is an American former baseball manager and player who was the manager of the Cleveland Indians/Guardians in Major League Baseball (MLB) for eleven seasons. Previously, he was the manager of the Boston Red Sox for eight seasons, whom he led to two World Series titles, ending the franchise's 86-year championship drought.
After a four-year stint as the manager of the Philadelphia Phillies, Francona was hired to manage the Red Sox in 2004 and led the team to their first championship since 1918. He won another World Series with Boston in 2007 and continued to manage the team until the end of the 2011 season. In 2013, Francona became the Cleveland Indians’ manager, leading them to an American League pennant in 2016, a 22-game win streak during the 2017 season (the longest in American League history and the second-longest in MLB history), and became the Indians/Guardians all-time leader in wins by a manager.