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Full Name: Frederick Wayne Honeycutt
Title: Pitching Coach
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Coaching Career
Enters his fourth season as a Major League pitching coach with the Dodgers...the pitching corps had a National
League best 3.68 ERA in 2008 and he guided the pitching staff to finish fifth in the National League in relief pitching
with a bullpen ERA of 3.82 in 2007overall the staff finished second in the National League in strikeouts (1,184)in
his first season guiding the Dodger pitching staff in 2006, saw the team post the fourth-lowest ERA in the National
League at 4.23...spent the 2002- 05 seasons as the Dodgers minor league pitching coordinatorstarted in the
Dodgers organization as a consultant, working with minor league pitchers in 2001has worked closely with some of
the most successful young Dodger pitching prospects, including Chad Billingsley, Jonathan Broxton and Hong-Chih
Kuowas instrumental in the development of the organizations minor league pitching philosophy of allowing pitchers
to pitch in both starting and relief roles during the season.
Playing Career
Pitched 21 seasons in the Major Leagues, including five with the Dodgers (1983-87)appeared in 797 games, the
33rd-highest total in Major League historyhis teams reached the postseason seven times, including one World
Series winner (1989), and two pennant winners (1988 and 1990) with Oaklandwhile with Texas, led the American
League in ERA in 1983 with a 2.42 mark in 25 startsearned a spot on the 1980 and 1983 AL All-Star teamson
Aug. 19, 1983 was traded to the Dodgers for Dave Stewart, Ricky Wright, and cashoriginally drafted and signed by
the Pittsburgh Pirates in 1976was the player to be named later in a deal to Seattle on Aug. 22, 1977made his big
league debut two days later, throwing two scoreless inningsmade his first Major League start in Yankee Stadium
on Aug. 31, 1977, allowing three runs in 7.1 innings in a no-decisionearned his first Major League victory on Apr. 7,
1978, defeating Minnesota, 6-3pitched for the Dodgers Division Championship teams in 1983 and 1985made
268 starts in his career, logging 2,160 inningsfinished his career with 109 wins and 38 saves...posted a career-low
2.35 ERA, pitching in a career-high 64 games for Oakland in 1989, when he was 2-2 with 12 saveswas an All-
America first baseman-pitcher at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville after winning the Southeastern Conference
batting title with a .404 mark.
Personal
Frederick Wayne Honeycutt and his wife Debbie make their home in Georgiathey have two children, Holli (Griffith)
and Ricky, and he became a grandfather in 2006after his retirement in 1997, Rick spent the next year coaching his
sons travel team and attending his daughters Belmont University volleyball gamesHolli has a doctorate in physical
therapypurchased a 100-acre, 42-stall ranch in northern Georgia that his wife, Debbie, has turned into a retreat
for special-needs childrenaccording to its mission statement, Heartland Ranch promotes the acquisition of those
requisite skills and developmental gains that promote socialization, self-esteem, employability and inclusion; the
acknowledged goals of every individual regardless of their innate or acquired challengesin 2006 he was inducted
into the Tennessee State Hall of Fame along with NFL greats Richard Dent and D.D. Lewis....on Feb. 19, 2009, was
named to the University of Tennessees All-Century team.
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