Eddie Yost

Infobox MLB retired
name=Eddie Yost
position=Third baseman


width=180
bats=Right
throws=Right
birthdate=birth date and age|1926|10|13
city-state|Brooklyn|New York
deathdate=
debutdate=August 16
debutyear=by|1944
debutteam=Washington Senators
finaldate=July 28
finalyear=by|1962
finalteam=Los Angeles Angels
stat1label=Batting average
stat1value=.254
stat2label=Home runs
stat2value=139
stat3label=Runs batted in
stat3value=683
teams=
* Washington Senators (by|1944, by|1946-by|1958)
* Detroit Tigers (by|1959-by|1960)
* Los Angeles Angels (by|1961-by|1962)
highlights=
* All-Star selection (1952)

Edward Frederick Joseph Yost (born October 13, 1926 in Brooklyn, New York City, New York) is a former third baseman and longtime coach in Major League Baseball. He went to New York University. He was signed by the Washington Senators as an amateur free agent in 1944 and made his Major League debut for the Senators on August 16, 1944, at the age of 17. He never played in the minor leagues. During his career, he batted .254 with 139 home runs in 2,109 games.

Nicknamed the "Walking Man" for the numerous bases on balls he would draw—he led the American League on six different occasions and logged 1,614 over his 18-year (1944; 1946–62) career, good for ninth place on the all-time list as of the end of 2005—Yost batted and threw righthanded. He played the bulk of his career (through 1958) with the "original" Senators. On December 6, 1958, Yost was traded to the Detroit Tigers so the Senators could make room for their up-and-coming thirdbaseman, Harmon Killebrew. Perhaps underestimated during an era that rated walks less highly than singles, Yost was rated as the 24th best 3rd baseman of all time in the Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract.

Yost then spent two seasons (1959–60) with the Detroit Tigers and two (1961–62) with the Los Angeles Angels. While with the Angels during their inaugural season, Yost earned the distinction of being the first Angels player to appear in a major league game—leading off in the first Angels game, at Baltimore on April 11, 1961.

After a brief stint as a playing coach with the '62 Angels, Yost returned to Washington as the third-base coach of the second Senators franchise, under his old teammate, Mickey Vernon. When Vernon was replaced by Gil Hodges, Yost briefly served as interim manager (losing his only game as manager) and then continued on Hodges' Washington staff through 1967. Moreover, when Hodges became manager of the New York Mets in 1968, he took Yost with him. Eddie served nine seasons (1968–76) as the Mets' third-base coach, through good times (NL championships in 1969 and 1973 and the "Amazin' Mets'" world title in '69) and bad (Hodges' sudden death from a heart attack in 1972). Yost then continued his coaching career with the Boston Red Sox for another eight seasons (1977–84).

ee also

* Top 500 home run hitters of all time
* List of Major League Baseball players with 1000 runs
* List of Major League Baseball runs scored champions
* List of Major League Baseball doubles champions
* MLB consecutive games played streaks

External links

*baseball-reference|id=y/yosted01