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Full Name: Glenn Edward Hoffman
Title: Third Base Coach
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Coaching Career
Is in his 34th year in professional baseball, 11th as a Major League coach and fourth as the Padres third base
coach...Served in the same capacity with the Los Angeles Dodgers during the 1999-2005 seasons...Began the 1999 season as the Dodgers bullpen coach before he was reassigned to third base coach on May 26...guided
the Dodgers to a 47-41 record and third place finish in 1998 after taking over as manager on June 21...Compiled a 246-302 (.449) mark in five seasons as a manager in the Dodgers minor league system (1991-93, 97-98)...
served as the Dodgers minor league field coordinator beginning in 1994.
Playing Career
Played parts of nine seasons in the Major Leagues as an infielder with the Boston Red Sox (1980-87), Dodgers
(1987) and California Angels (1989)...Member of Bostons American League Championship team in 1986, opening the season as the starting shortstop before
spraining his right ankle in the second game of the season, April 9 at Detroitplaced on the disabled list on May 17
after being diagnosed with mitral valve prolapse syndrome...returned to the Red Sox on September 5 and played in
five games...Named to the Topps and Baseball America All-Rookie teams in 1980...Bostons second-round selection in the June 1976 First-Year Player Draft.
Personal
Glenn Edward Hoffman and his wife, Cheryl, have five children: Sarah (22), Stacy (20), Sabrina (18) and twins, Drake
and Dylan (14)earned All-League and All-County honors at Savanna High School in Anaheim, CA where he set school
records for hits and doubleswon three letters in basketball as a guard and was an All-League selection as a senior
when he set a school career scoring record...his younger brother is former Padres closer and current Brewer Trevor
Hoffman...his mother was the recipient of the George and Barbara Bush Little League Parents of the Year Award on
August 26, 2002 at Williamsport, PA...Mikki Hoffman accepted the award on behalf of herself and her late husband,
Eddie, at the annual CAN Little League Baseball Awards breakfastthe Hoffmans were deeply involved at various
levels of volunteerism at Northwest Anaheim Little League while their sons were involved.
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