18 Facts About Joe Kehoskie

Joe Kehoskie has worked in professional baseball in a variety of capacities since 1984, formerly working in minor league baseball and as a player agent.

Joe Kehoskie has made national TV appearances on outlets including ESPN, CBC, Al Jazeera English, and PBS, and been interviewed on radio networks including ESPN Radio, CBC Radio, NPR, and WFAN.

Joe Kehoskie was born and raised in Auburn, New York, a small city 25 miles southwest of Syracuse in the Finger Lakes region of central New York.

Joe Kehoskie is a 1990 graduate of Auburn High School, from which he graduated in three years.

Joe Kehoskie was hired as a batboy by his hometown Auburn Astros, then the short-season Class A affiliate of the Houston Astros, in 1984 at age 11.

Joe Kehoskie worked for the team through 1991 in a variety of roles including office assistant, official scorer, and clubhouse manager.

Joe Kehoskie worked for the Red Wings until late 1994.

Joe Kehoskie worked in the Minor Leagues for 11 years with the goal of becoming a Major League Baseball general manager.

One of his earliest clients was left-handed pitcher Brad Pennington, who had pitched for the Rochester Red Wings when Joe Kehoskie worked for the team.

In 1998, Joe Kehoskie was asked to represent a group of five Cuban defectors in Costa Rica, who became the first of approximately two dozen Cuban players he represented.

Since the late 1990s, Joe Kehoskie has been quoted frequently in the media on baseball-related topics, including Cuban defectors, baseball in Cuba, and the use of PEDs in Latin America.

In 2000, Joe Kehoskie accurately predicted a record $30 million contract for Cuban pitcher Jose Contreras more than two and a half years before Contreras left Cuba.

In 2009, Joe Kehoskie said Cuban defector Aroldis Chapman "might have more upside than any pitcher on the planet" but would struggle to become an MLB starting pitcher.

Joe Kehoskie has been quoted several hundred times in print and online media outlets including the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, Miami Herald, ESPN.

Joe Kehoskie has been quoted in more than a half-dozen books.

Joe Kehoskie has been interviewed on the radio by, among others, Cindy Brunson on ESPN Radio, Adam Schein on WFAN, George Stroumboulopoulos on CBC Radio, Greg Allen on NPR's All Things Considered, and John Hockenberry on WNYC's The Takeaway.

Joe Kehoskie was featured in a 2001 episode of ESPN's Outside the Lines series and has made many other national and international TV appearances:.

Joe Kehoskie has lived in central New York; Miami, Florida; and Merida, Yucatan, Mexico.