William Joseph Haselman was born on May 25,1966 and is an American professional baseball coach and former player.
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35 Facts About Bill Haselman
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Bill Haselman played as a catcher in Major League Baseball for 13 seasons between 1990 and 2003.
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Bill Haselman later was the bullpen coach and first base coach for the Red Sox, and currently is the catching coach for the Los Angeles Angels.
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Bill Haselman was born in Long Branch, New Jersey, and graduated from Saratoga High School in Saratoga, California.
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Bill Haselman committed to play college football at the University of Nevada, Reno, but backed out in order to attend the University of California, Los Angeles.
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Bill Haselman played for the UCLA Bruins football team as a substitute quarterback behind starting quarterback Troy Aikman.
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Bill Haselman was drafted as the 23rd pick of the first round of the 1987 Major League Baseball draft by the Texas Rangers.
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Bill Haselman began his professional career that year for the Gastonia Rangers of the South Atlantic League.
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Bill Haselman was a September call-up with the Rangers in 1990 and made his MLB debut at the age of 24 as a pinch hitter on September 3,1990, against the Cleveland Indians.
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Bill Haselman returned to the minors and spent 1991 and the first part of 1992 with the Oklahoma City 89ers of the Triple-A American Association.
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On May 29,1992, Bill Haselman was selected off waivers by the Seattle Mariners, who assigned him to the Calgary Cannons of the Pacific Coast League, where he hit.
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Bill Haselman spent most of 1993 as the Mariners back-up catcher and hit his first home run on May 8 off of Jim Deshaies of the Minnesota Twins.
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On June 6,1993, Bill Haselman was hit by a pitch thrown by Baltimore Orioles pitcher Mike Mussina, leading to him charging the mound and igniting a bench-clearing brawl.
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Bill Haselman signed as a free agent with the Boston Red Sox on November 7,1994, and played with the Red Sox through the 1997 season as a backup catcher.
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Bill Haselman was the battery-mate for Red Sox pitcher Roger Clemens on September 18,1996, when Clemens struck out 20 batters in a game against the Detroit Tigers to tie his own major league single-game strikeout record in a nine-inning game.
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Bill Haselman signed as a free agent with the Detroit Tigers on December 14,1998.
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Bill Haselman appeared in at least 47 MLB games during each of those seasons.
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Bill Haselman rejoined the Tigers again on a free agent contract on January 20,2003, but was released on March 27, before the season started.
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Bill Haselman was signed as a free agent by the Red Sox on April 11,2003.
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Bill Haselman played in his final major league game on September 27,2003.
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Bill Haselman signed as a minor-league free agent with the Baltimore Orioles on December 3,2003, but retired at the age of 37 before playing in any games.
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Bill Haselman played in 783 minor-league games during 10 seasons, batting.
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Bill Haselman served as the Red Sox' interim first base coach in 2004, filling in for Lynn Jones from early May to late July, after Jones sustained a non-baseball eye injury.
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Bill Haselman served as the team's bullpen coach in 2005, and was first base coach for the 2006 season.
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Boston then offered him a position managing in the minor leagues, but Bill Haselman declined, as he did not want to spend that much time away from his family; he took a position working for Merrill Lynch and worked as a postgame radio host during Seattle Mariners games.
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In 2010, Bill Haselman returned to baseball as the manager of the Class A Bakersfield Blaze, a California League affiliate of the Texas Rangers.
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Bill Haselman joined the Los Angeles Dodgers organization in 2014 as the manager for the Great Lakes Loons of the Midwest League.
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In 2015, the Dodgers assigned Bill Haselman to be the manager of the Rancho Cucamonga Quakes of the California League.
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In 2016, Bill Haselman became the manager of the Oklahoma City Dodgers in the Triple-A Pacific Coast League.
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Bill Haselman remained with the team as their manager through the 2018 season.
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In 2019, Bill Haselman served as a volunteer assistant coach for the Washington Huskies baseball team.
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Bill Haselman joined the Angels' major-league staff in January 2022 as the team's catching coach, succeeding Jose Molina.
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