Jose Antonio Rosado (born November 9, 1974) is a former

Major League Baseball Major League Baseball (MLB) is a professional baseball organization and the oldest major professional sports league in the world. MLB is composed of 30 total teams, divided equally between the National League (NL) and the American League (AL), ...

pitcher In baseball, the pitcher is the player who throws ("pitches") the baseball from the pitcher's mound toward the catcher to begin each play, with the goal of retiring a batter, who attempts to either make contact with the pitched ball or draw ...

who played for the

Kansas City Royals The Kansas City Royals are an American professional baseball team based in Kansas City, Missouri. The Royals compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the American League (AL) Central division. The team was founded as an expans ...

from 1996 to 2000.

Playing career

He was drafted by the Royals in the 12th round of the 1994 amateur draft. He made his major league debut om June 12,1996 and came in 4th in Rookie of the year voting despite having only made 16 starts. He also gave up Paul Molitor's 3000th career hit on September 16, 1996. Rosado was the winning pitcher in the

1997 MLB All-Star Game The 1997 Major League Baseball All-Star Game was the 68th playing of the midsummer classic between the all-stars of the American League (AL) and National League (NL), the two leagues comprising Major League Baseball. The game was held on July ...

despite giving up a home run to

Javy López Javier "Javy" López Torres (born November 5, 1970) is a Puerto Rican former catcher in Major League Baseball who played for the Atlanta Braves (1992–2003), Baltimore Orioles (2004–2006) and Boston Red Sox (2006). He batted and threw right-h ...

and would make another all star game in 1999. His career was effectively ended in early 2000 when it was revealed he had torn his rotator cuff and despite several attempts to rehab he would not play in the minors or major leagues again.

Coaching career

Rosado began coaching in 2011 in the

New York Yankees The New York Yankees are an American professional baseball team based in the Boroughs of New York City, New York City borough of the Bronx. The Yankees compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the American League (AL) Amer ...

minor league system. He is currently the pitching coach for the Yankees High-A affiliate the Tampa Tarpons. He was the pitching coach for Team Puerto Rico in the

World Baseball Classic The World Baseball Classic (WBC) is an international baseball tournament sanctioned from 2006 to 2013 by the International Baseball Federation (IBAF) and after 2013 by World Baseball Softball Confederation (WBSC) in partnership with Major Leagu ...

in both

2013 File:2013 Events Collage V2.png, From left, clockwise: Edward Snowden becomes internationally famous for leaking classified NSA wiretapping information; Typhoon Haiyan kills over 6,000 in the Philippines and Southeast Asia; The Dhaka garment fact ...

and

2017 File:2017 Events Collage V2.png, From top left, clockwise: The War Against ISIS at the Battle of Mosul (2016-2017); aftermath of the Manchester Arena bombing; The Solar eclipse of August 21, 2017 ("Great American Eclipse"); North Korea tests a ser ...

, helping the team to a second-place finish in both years.

References

External links

1974 births Living people Sportspeople from Jersey City, New Jersey Galveston Whitecaps baseball players Kansas City Royals players Major League Baseball pitchers American League All-Stars Baseball players from Jersey City, New Jersey Minor league baseball coaches Gulf Coast Royals players Wilmington Blue Rocks players Omaha Royals players Wichita Wranglers players Indios de Mayagüez players {{US-baseball-pitcher-1970s-stub