Nick Capra
American baseball player & coach
Baseball player
| Nick Capra | |
|---|---|
 Capra (left) with the White Sox in 2017 | |
| Outfielder | |
| Born: (1958-03-08) March 8, 1958 (age 66) Denver, Colorado, U.S. | |
Batted: Right Threw: Right | |
| MLB debut | |
| September 6, 1982, for the Texas Rangers | |
| Last MLB appearance | |
| April 24, 1991, for the Texas Rangers | |
| MLB statistics | |
| Batting average | .167 |
| Home runs | 1 |
| Runs batted in | 1 |
| Teams | |
| As player As coach | |
Nick Lee Capra (born March 8, 1958) is an American professional baseball coach, most recently for the Chicago White Sox
Career
A former outfielder, Capra appeared in 45 MLB games over portions of five seasons for the Texas Rangers and Kansas City Royals, collecting nine total hits and one home run, a solo blow off Steve Baker of the Oakland Athletics on September 22, 1982.[1] He attended Lamar Community College, Blinn College and the University of Oklahoma and was drafted by the Rangers in the third round of the 1979 amateur draft. He threw and batted right-handed and was listed as 5 feet 8 inches (1.73 m) tall and 165 pounds (75 kg).
Capra made his professional debut with the Rangers' Double-A Tulsa Drillers affiliate in 1979. Over the course of a 17-season minor league baseball career, he batted .294 with 1,170 hits. He played his last season with the Florida Marlins' Triple-A Charlotte Knights in 1995.
Capra joined the White Sox' system in 1996 as a minor-league manager, working at all levels of the minors for 11 seasons (1996–2005; 2008). In 2006–07 he served Chicago as roving minor league hitting coordinator. Then from 2009 to 2011 he was the ChiSox' minor league field coordinator before becoming the club's director of player development for five seasons (2012–16). On October 14, 2016, he was named the third-base coach for the Chicago White Sox of Major League Baseball.[2] His appointment to manager Rick Renteria's staff for 2017 marked his first assignment as a big-league coach, and his 22nd season in the White Sox organization.[2] In 2019 Capra signed a new 2-year contract to remain as 3rd base coach. The White Sox let him go following the 2020 season.
He resides in Scottsdale, Arizona during the offseaon and frequents Oklahoma to hunt.
References
- ^ Retrosheet box score: 1982-09-22
- ^ a b Merkin, Scott (October 14, 2016). "McEwing named bench coach amid staff changes". whitesox.com. Archived from the original on October 16, 2016. Retrieved October 17, 2016.
External links
- Career statistics and player information from MLB, or Baseball Reference, or Baseball Reference (Minors), or Retrosheet
| Preceded by | Birmingham Barons manager 2000–2001 | Succeeded by |
| Preceded by | Charlotte Knights manager 2002–2004 | Succeeded by |
| Preceded by | Chicago White Sox third base coach 2017–2020 | Succeeded by |
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