Born: (1949-10-04) October 4, 1949 (age 74) Cedar Rapids, Iowa, U.S.
Batted: Right
Threw: Right
MLB debut
May 26, 1976, for the Kansas City Royals
Last MLB appearance
October 6, 1985, for the Kansas City Royals
MLB statistics
Batting average
.262
Home runs
21
Runs batted in
261
Managerial record
326–320
Winning %
.505
Teams
As player
Kansas City Royals (1976–1985)
As manager
Kansas City Royals (1987–1991)
California Angels (1992)
Career highlights and awards
World Series champion (1985)
John David Wathan (/ˈwɒθən/; born October 4, 1949) is an American former professional baseball catcher, manager, and coach.[1] He played his entire career in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Kansas City Royals from 1976 to 1985. Wathan was a member of the world champion 1985 Kansas City Royals team.
After his playing career, he worked as a coach before serving as the Royals manager from 1987 to 1991. He also managed the California Angels in 1992. Wathan is notable for setting the single-season stolen base record for catchers in 1982 when, he stole 36 bases to break the previous record set by Ray Schalk in 1916.[2][3]
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succeeded by JohnWathan. Rodgers returned as manager in 1993, but he was soon replaced by Lachemann. In 1996, Lachemann was replaced by John McNamara, who...
Kansas City Royals: Dennis Leonard, Dan Quisenberry, Paul Splittorff, JohnWathan and Willie Wilson. Schmidt's best season may have been the strike-shortened...
championship and another AL pennant, led by stars such as Amos Otis, Hal McRae, John Mayberry, George Brett, Frank White, Willie Wilson, and Bret Saberhagen....
one point even considered retirement. But his manager, former teammate JohnWathan, encouraged him to stick it out. Finally, in July, the slump ended and...
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during the 1991 season. May 22 – JohnWathan is fired as manager of the Kansas City Royals and replaced by Hal McRae. Wathan is the third manager fired in...
loaded for the Royals in the ninth inning, and Kansas City down 7–5, JohnWathan hit a fly ball to right field that Pat Kelly caught for the first out...
Otis ripped a double into the left-field corner to drive in two, then JohnWathan's sacrifice fly to center extended the Royals' lead to 4–2; questionably...
Schalk had a career-high 30 stolen bases (a record for a catcher until JohnWathan broke it in 1982) and led the league in fielding percentage, putouts...
manage a Major League Baseball team. He beat out four other candidates in JohnWathan, Davey Lopes, Tom Trebelhorn, and Ron Gardenhire. In his first year as...
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California Angels. In that game, the umpiring crew had declined to negate one of John Mayberry's home runs for excessive pine tar use. MacPhail upheld the umpires'...
the ninth breaks up this bid; Thon later scores on a Steve Jeltz single. John Franco then relieves Browning and induces Lenny Dykstra to hit into a game-ending...
Gubicza called his induction a "tremendous honor" and former teammates JohnWathan and Jeff Montgomery spoke about his career at the ceremony. Gubicza was...
sidelined his 1992 season. He returned in the beginning of September, with JohnWathan replacing Rodgers as manager, but hit just one home run and drove in...
City Royals briefly called up two catchers to back up regular backstop JohnWathan; Duane Dewey was on the roster from May 16 to June 1, while Russ Stephans...
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The Padres, trailing 3–0, got homers from Marvell Wynne, Tony Gwynn and John Kruk. Despite this, the Padres lost 13-6. This record would be matched in...
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Toreros, for the Roman Catholic school's connections to Spain. In 1964, John Cunningham became the program's second head coach. In 1966, the team joined...
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