Managerial/Coaching Career
Enters his fifth season as Yankees bench coach in 2013...is his eighth season on the Yankees' Major League staff, serving as first base coach from 2006-08 and catching instructor over the entire span...since joining the staff, Yankees catchers have caught 251 potential base stealers, tied with San Francisco for most in the Majors over the stretch...Previously spent parts of four seasons managing the Kansas City Royals from 2002-05...In his first full season as manager in 2003, led the Royals to an 83-79 record, the sixth-best turnaround in Major League history following a 100-loss season...the 2003 season marked Kansas City's rst winning season since 1993, when they went 84-78...Was selected as the 2003 American League "Manager of the Year" by the Baseball Writers' Association of America, becoming the fourth manager since 1983 to win the award in his first full, non-abbreviated season as a Major League skipper (also Houston's Hal Lanier, 1986; San Francisco's Dusty Baker, 1993; and San Diego's Bruce Bochy, 1996)...also named the 2003 AL "Manager of the Year" by both Sporting News and Sports Illustrated...Became only the third Dominican-born manager in Major League history, joining Felipe Alou and Luis Pujols...Began his Major League coaching career in 2002 as the bench coach for the Houston Astros...was named Royals manager on May 15, 2002...Also served as manager of Triple-A New Orleans from 1999-2001...began his coaching career as White Sox' Coordinator of Dominican Operations in 1998 and led the Aguilas Dominican team to the Caribbean Series title.
Playing Career
A five-time National League All-Star catcher, Pena posted a .260 career batting average over an 18-year Major League career, appearing in 1,988 games for the Pittsburgh
Pirates (1980-86), St. Louis Cardinals (1987-88), Boston Red Sox (1990-93), Cleveland Indians (1994-96), Chicago White Sox (1997) and Houston Astros (1997)...Ranks fifth all-time among Major League catchers with 1,950 games behind the plate, trailing only Ivan Rodriguez (2,288), Carlton Fisk (2,226), Bob Boone (2,225) and Gary
Carter (2,056)..Won four Gold Glove Awards (1983-85, 1991) and recorded a .338 career postseason batting average...was named Topps' Rookie All-Star catcher in 1981 and was selected to the UPI Rookie All-Star Team...originally signed as a non-drafted free agent by the Pittsburgh Pirates on July 22, 1975 and made his Major League debut on Sept. 1, 1980.
Personal
Married (Amaris) with two sons: Tony, Jr. (a member of the Red Sox organization) and Francisco Antonio (a catcher in the New York Mets system)...also has a daughter, Jennifer Amaris, who won the Miss Dominican Republic-U.S.A. beauty pageant in 2007...his brother, Ramon, pitched with the Detroit Tigers organization...Tony did not play high school baseball...credits his mother, who was an outstanding
softball player, with teaching him how to play the game...Took part in the Yankees' hurricane relief donation of $35,000 in cash and food to the Dominican Republic in October 2007...Joined the Yankees delegation and the World Series trophy on Jan. 7, 2010 to meet Dominican Repulilic President Dr. Leonel Fernandez at the National Palace in Santo Domingo.
