39 Facts About Will Venable

William Dion Venable was born on October 29,1982 and is an American professional baseball coach and former player.

Will Venable is the bench coach of the Boston Red Sox of Major League Baseball.

Will Venable played in MLB as an outfielder for the San Diego Padres, Texas Rangers and Los Angeles Dodgers, and he was a coach for the Chicago Cubs.

Will Venable is the son of former MLB outfielder Max Venable and is the older brother of former Canadian Football League player Winston Venable.

Will Venable finished among the top 10 in the National League in triples four times and in stolen bases twice.

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Will Venable has the most MLB career hits and home runs of any Princeton alumnus.

Will Venable was born in 1982 in Greenbrae in Marin County, California, at a time when his father Max Will Venable was a Major League Baseball player for the nearby San Francisco Giants.

Will Venable grew up travelling around the country with his father and lived in Japan and the Dominican Republic.

Will Venable was the Marin County Athletic League most valuable player in basketball as a freshman, sophomore and junior.

Will Venable chose to attend Princeton University, not for its academics, but for its tradition of basketball excellence.

Will Venable respected their tradition of qualifying to participate in the NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship Tournament.

Will Venable did not play baseball as a freshman, but his father had directed him to Scott Bradley, Princeton's baseball coach, during his recruiting visit.

Will Venable, who was a member of the class of 2005 at Princeton University, was the second athlete in Ivy League history to be first-team All-Ivy in both basketball and baseball and he played on Ivy League Champion National Collegiate Athletic Association Championship tournament participants in both sports.

Will Venable played in two NCAA Championship tournaments in both sports and earned a B A in anthropology.

Bradley had left the door open for Will Venable to come take batting practice if he ever had the urge.

Will Venable won the batting title that season and was named league most valuable player.

Will Venable led the league in doubles and was second to John Otness in OBP.

Will Venable had been expected to be a September 2008 call-up, but when Scott Hairston was forced onto the disabled list, Will Venable was called up ahead of schedule.

Will Venable is the twenty-fifth Princeton alumnus to play in the Major Leagues, but he is the first African-American alumnus.

When Will Venable batted leadoff for the Padres on September 28,2008 against Pittsburgh, he became the first Princeton batter to oppose a Princeton pitcher.

Will Venable started the 2009 season with the Padres' Triple-A affiliate, Portland Beavers, but he was recalled by the Padres on June 3.

Will Venable executed some delayed steals by taking off with the toss back to the mound "when neither infielder is covering second and the catcher is nonchalant with the ball after receiving the pitch".

Will Venable was recalled after going 16-for-58 with 3 doubles, 3 triples, 3 home runs and 3 stolen bases in 14 games.

Will Venable made 80 starts in right, but appeared in a then-career-high 148 games for the year.

On May 15,2012, Will Venable had a single, double and triple by the fourth inning against the Washington Nationals, but his 4-hit effort again fell short of the franchise's cycle.

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Will Venable ended up one hit shy of the cycle for the fifth time, this time a triple.

Will Venable collected 8 triples, finishing 9th in the league, and committed 7 errors, tied for first among NL outfielders.

Will Venable made 68 starts in right and 52 in center and played in a career-high 151 games.

Will Venable entered the season with 401 hits, which was 48 shy of the record for an alumnus of Princeton Tigers Baseball held by Moe Berg.

Will Venable was voted the Padres' Most Valuable Player for the 2013 season by local baseball writers and other members of the media as he became the 8th player in Padres history to record at least 20 home runs and 20 steals in a season.

Will Venable stole 22 bases and finished tied for 5th in the league with 8 triples.

On September 2,2013, Will Venable signed a two-year contract extension with the Padres to keep him in San Diego through the 2015 season.

On February 28,2016, Will Venable signed a minor league deal with the Cleveland Indians.

The next day, Will Venable signed a minor league contract with the Philadelphia Phillies.

On June 11,2016, Will Venable opted out of his minor league deal with the Phillies and became a free agent.

Will Venable had one hit in 19 at-bats for Los Angeles and played in 46 games for Oklahoma City, where he hit.

On September 6,2017, Will Venable was named a special assistant to Chicago Cubs president Theo Epstein.

Will Venable served as the first base coach of the Cubs in 2018 and 2019.

On November 20,2020, Will Venable was announced as the bench coach of the Boston Red Sox.