Aaron Keith Holbert (born January 9, 1973) is an American former professional baseball

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for the

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and

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(MLB).

Playing career

He was promoted from the Triple-A

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, the Cincinnati Reds' highest minor league team, on August 16, , to replace

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, who had been placed on the 15-day

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earlier that day. That marked the second time he had been on a regular season Major League roster, as he was on the roster of the St. Louis Cardinals for one game in , going 0 for 3. The gap of 9 years, 124 days between his first two games is the longest gap in Major League Baseball in the last 75 years. In his career, he played at various levels in the organizations of the St. Louis Cardinals and

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before moving to the Reds' organization.

Post-playing career

In 2009, Holbert managed the

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in the

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organization to a third-place finish in the Northern Division of the

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. In December 2009, he was named the manager of the Indians'

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affiliate

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. As of , he was listed as a member of the professional scouting staff of the

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. Holbert was named manager of the Yankees High-A minor league team, the

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for the 2019 season.

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