Tony DeFrancesco
Baseball Player
1963 –
Who is Tony DeFrancesco?
Anthony John DeFrancesco is an American former Major League Baseball interim manager with the Houston Astros. He was brought up from the Astros' Triple-A affiliate Oklahoma RedHawks during the 2012 MLB season. Previously, he spent six seasons as manager of the Sacramento River Cats and served one season as third-base coach for the Oakland Athletics of the MLB. He was also a catcher in the Boston Red Sox and Cincinnati Reds farm systems from 1984 to 1992.
As the manager of the River Cats, DeFrancesco led the River Cats to three Pacific Coast League titles in five years, winning the Pacific Coast League and The Sporting News Minor League Manager of the Year awards in 2003. The River Cats won the 2007 Bricktown Showdown under DeFrancesco.
DeFrancesco was a minor league coach and manager for the Oakland Athletics farm system for fourteen years, managing teams in the Arizona Rookie League, Northwest League, California League and Texas League, as well as the Pacific Coast League River Cats.
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