Eugene Patrick Glynn (born September 22, 1956, at

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) is an American

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and a former minor league

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and second baseman. He was the infield and baserunning coordinator of the Miami Marlins of

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, and previously served as third base coach of the Minnesota Twins from 2015–18."Gene Glynn: 'It's special being in the big leagues and being home'"
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'', 2014-11-12 He also has held coaching positions with four other MLB teams. As an active player, he stood tall, weighed , and threw and batted right-handed. Glynn graduated from Waseca High School and

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(then called Mankato State University), where he starred in both baseball and

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. He was Minnesota's first "Mr. Basketball" in 1975. Glynn was signed as a non-drafted free agent by the

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in 1979 and played seven seasons in Montreal's farm system, including parts of three campaigns (1982–84) at the Triple A level. His

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season, in the 1979

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, was his best, with 36

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in 64 games played, 71 runs scored, and a

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of .296. He managed five seasons (1987–88; 1990–92) in Short Season-A baseball, beginning in the New York–Penn League. His 1990

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, a

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affiliate, won the

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championship. Bob Gebhard, the scout who signed Glynn for the Expos in 1979, was the first

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in the history of the Colorado Rockies, and he brought Glynn into the expansion team's system in 1992. By , Glynn was on the coaching staff of the Major League Rockies, serving for five full seasons, through . He then returned to the Expos for one season () as an MLB coach, then spent longer tenures as the third-base coach of the Chicago Cubs (

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– 02) and

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(– 06). Glynn spent the 2007–11 seasons as a member of the professional scouting staff of the

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, based in Waseca. In 2012, Glynn joined the Twins' organization as manager of the Triple-A Rochester Red Wings. After a 72–72 season, the Red Wings' best record in four years, Glynn returned to Rochester in and , and led his club to identical 77–67 marks. As a result of his success, Glynn was interviewed for the parent Twins' vacant managerial opening in October 2014, after the firing of veteran skipper

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. Baseball Hall of Famer

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ultimately was hired as the Twins' 2015 pilot, and he added Glynn to his first-year staff as third-base coach. In , he joined the Marlins as infield and baserunning coordinator. Glynn retired from baseball after the season. On May 4, 2021, Glynn was announced as the head boys basketball coach at St. Clair High School in St. Clair, Minnesota. He coached the team during the 2021-2022 season and announced he would be stepping down as head coach at the end of the season.

References

* Howe News Bureau, ''1985 Montreal Expos Organization Book.'' St. Petersburg, Florida: The Baseball Library, 1985

External links

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