37 Facts About Mike Scioscia

Mike Scioscia was selected to two All-Star Games and won two World Series over the course of his 13-year MLB career, which was spent entirely with the Dodgers; this made him the only person in MLB history to spend his entire playing career with one team and entire managing career with another team with 10+ years in both places.

Mike Scioscia was signed by the San Diego Padres and Texas Rangers late in his career, but never appeared in a major league game for either team due to injury.

Mike Scioscia is the Angels' all-time managerial leader in wins, games managed, and division titles.

Mike Scioscia was honored with the American League Manager of the Year Award in 2002 and 2009.

On May 8,2011, Mike Scioscia became the 56th manager to win 1,000 or more games, and the 23rd to have all 1,000 or more victories with a single team.

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Mike Scioscia was drafted by the Los Angeles Dodgers in the 1st round of the 1976 amateur draft, debuting for the Dodgers in 1980 and went on to play 12 years for the team.

Mike Scioscia made himself invaluable to the Dodgers by making the effort to learn Spanish in order to better communicate with rookie sensation Fernando Valenzuela in 1981.

Mike Scioscia went to the San Diego Padres in 1993, but suffered a torn rotator cuff injury during spring training that year and did not play in any regular season games for the team.

Mike Scioscia closed out his career with the Texas Rangers in 1994 after a failed attempt to come back from the injury, again without having played in any regular season games that year.

In one collision with St Louis Cardinals' slugger Jack Clark in July 1985, Mike Scioscia was knocked unconscious but still held onto the ball.

Mike Scioscia has claimed he had an even harder plate collision the following season.

Mike Scioscia preferred to hold the ball in his catcher's mitt without making use of his bare hand.

Also, Mike Scioscia felt he was less prone to injury in a collision if positioned his body so that he was kneeling on both knees and turned to the side, whereas most catchers make their tag either standing or on one knee.

Mike Scioscia had a particularly strong season on offense in 1985, batting.

Mike Scioscia hit a dramatic, ninth inning, game-tying home run off the New York Mets' Dwight Gooden in Game 4 of the 1988 National League Championship Series.

Mike Scioscia was a key player on the Dodgers' 1981 and 1988 World Series champion teams, and is the Dodgers' all-time leader in games caught.

In 1990, Mike Scioscia became the first Dodger catcher to start in an All-Star Game since Hall of Famer Roy Campanella.

Mike Scioscia was involved in three no-hitters in his career: he was on the losing end of Nolan Ryan's 5th no-no on September 26,1981 vs the Houston Astros, and on the winning side, he caught Fernando Valenzuela's on June 29,1990 vs the St Louis Cardinals and Kevin Gross's on August 17,1992 vs the San Francisco Giants.

Mike Scioscia caught 136 shutouts during his career, ranking him fourth all-time among major league catchers.

Mike Scioscia used the same catcher's mitt for most of his playing career.

Mike Scioscia would retain Maddon as an assistant until Maddon received his own managerial position with the Tampa Bay Devil Rays in 2006.

In winning the series, Mike Scioscia became the 17th person to win a World Series as both a player and a manager.

Mike Scioscia was honored as 2002 American League Manager of Year by the Baseball Writers' Association of America.

Mike Scioscia was further named the overall Major League 2002 Manager of the Year by Baseball America.

Angels under Mike Scioscia would go on to enjoy a period of on-field success never before seen in franchise history, winning five American League West division titles in six years.

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Mike Scioscia's Angels broke the franchise single-season win record with 99 wins in 2002, and again with 100 wins in 2008.

Mike Scioscia is the Angels' all-time leader in wins and games managed, surpassing original manager Bill Rigney's totals in both categories in 2007 and 2008, respectively.

Mike Scioscia was the longest tenured manager in Major League Baseball.

Mike Scioscia was honored as 2009 American League Major League Manager of Year by the Baseball Writers' Association of America.

Mike Scioscia became the first manager to reach the playoffs in six of his first ten seasons.

Tension between Dipoto and Mike Scioscia continued during the 2015 season regarding the way Mike Scioscia and his coaches delivered statistical reports developed by Dipoto and the front office to their players.

Mike Scioscia finished with a record of 1650 wins and 1428 losses.

Mike Scioscia tells Smithers, who found him while deer hunting, that while he enjoyed playing baseball, he always wanted to be a blue collar power plant employee, and consequently is the only player who takes the power plant job seriously.

Mike Scioscia's character is ultimately hospitalized with a life-threatening case of radiation poisoning that leaves him unable to play.

Mike Scioscia made a second appearance on The Simpsons with the episode "MoneyBart", which premiered on October 10,2010.

Early in his career after signing with the Dodgers, Mike Scioscia spent the off-seasons attending Penn State University, working toward a computer science degree.

Mike Scioscia was traded to the Chicago Cubs for Trevor Gretzky, son of Wayne Gretzky, on March 20,2014.