Edgar Frederick Yost III is a former Major League Baseball catcher and manager of the Milwaukee Brewers and Kansas City Royals.
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26 Facts About Ned Yost
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Ned Yost attended and played baseball at Dublin High School in Dublin, California.
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Ned Yost had significant difficulty hitting prior to his junior and senior years, yet improved after building physical strength by working as a pot-scrubber at a Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant.
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Ned Yost went to the Brewers in the Rule 5 draft on December 5,1977.
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Ned Yost briefly had a second career as a taxidermist in Jackson, Mississippi, in between his playing days and coaching days.
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Ned Yost was the Braves' bullpen coach from 1991 to 1998 and earned a ring as a part of the 1995 World Series championship team that defeated the Cleveland Indians in six games.
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Ned Yost was part of the 1991,1992,1996, and 1999 National pennant winning teams that lost each of those series to the Minnesota Twins, the Toronto Blue Jays, and the New York Yankees respectively.
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In 1999 Yost became the Braves' third base coach, a position he maintained until the end of the 2002 season.
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On October 29,2002, Ned Yost was named the Brewers manager, succeeding Jerry Royster.
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Ned Yost's tenure oversaw a revitalization of the Brewers franchise, leading them from losing records to championship contender.
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Ned Yost finished seventh in voting for Manager of the Year in 2007.
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Ned Yost was thrown out of three games in the last week of the season.
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Ned Yost was fired as manager on September 15,2008, with 12 games remaining in the regular season.
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On May 13,2010, Ned Yost was named manager of the Kansas City Royals, replacing Trey Hillman.
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Ned Yost's Royals swept the Baltimore Orioles in four games in the American League Championship Series to give the team its first American League pennant in 29 years.
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Ned Yost received the watch as a present from MLB for winning the 2014 AL pennant.
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Ned Yost later told a local radio station that MLB had rescinded the warning after learning that the networking features of the Apple Watch were only available with an active iPhone connection.
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On February 18,2016, the Royals announced that Yost had signed an extension with the team, keeping him as manager through the 2018 season.
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On September 23,2019, Ned Yost announced that he would retire at the end of the 2019 season.
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Ned Yost finished his Royals career with 687 wins and 736 losses, both being franchise records for a manager in Royals history.
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On November 4,2017, Ned Yost was in a tree stand near his home in Georgia when he fell twenty feet.
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Ned Yost sustained a broken pelvis, and his surgeon was concerned that Yost might die from blood loss.
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Ned Yost later said he was certain he would have died if he did not have his cell phone at the time of the fall.
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Ned Yost later appeared in a television commercial for Verizon, crediting its wireless service with saving his life.
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