Bruce Alan Fields (born October 6, 1960) is an American former professional baseball

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and the former hitting coach of the

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(MLB). He played during three seasons in MLB for the

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and

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Career

Fields was drafted by the Tigers in the 7th round of the

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. He played his first professional season with their Rookie league

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in 1978, and split his last season between the

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' Triple-A club, the

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, and the

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' Triple-A team, the

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, in 1991. From 1997 through 2000, Fields was

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of the Class A

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, leading them in 2000 to the league's best record and winning the Midwest League Manager of the Year Award twice (1997 and 2000). He managed the Triple-A

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for two seasons, before serving as hitting coach for the

from 2003 to 2005. Fields took over as hitting coach for the Cleveland Indians on June 19, 2011.

Personal life

Fields is the father of Detroit Tiger

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, who played in his first major league game on June 4, 2015, against the Oakland Athletics. Fields' older son, Aaron, a former minor league prospect in the Cleveland Indians' system, was in attendance. Fields was a basketball teammate of

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, starting on the school's 1977 Class A

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championship team.

External links

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