Rick Stelmaszek

Richard Francis Stelmaszek (born October 8, 1948 in Chicago, Illinois) is a Major League Baseball bullpen coach for the Minnesota Twins. In 2007, Stelmaszek completed his 27th consecutive season on the Minnesota coaching staff, the third-longest such tenure with the same club in baseball history. (Nick Altrock spent 42 consecutive years as a coach with the same franchise, when it was the Washington Senators, between 1912 and 1953. [John Thorn and Peter Palmer, "Total Baseball," p. 2,157] Manny Mota, entering his 29th consecutive season with the Los Angeles Dodgers in 2008, ranks second.)

During Stelmaszek's coaching career with the Twins, which began in 1981, he was a member of two World Series championship teams (the 1987 and 1991 Twins) and he has worked under five different Minnesota managers. He is slated to serve his 28th straight season as a Minnesota coach in 2008.

Stelmaszek was a catcher during his playing career, appearing in 60 games for the expansion Washington Senators and its successor franchise, the Texas Rangers, California Angels and Chicago Cubs, during three brief appearances in the major leagues in 1971, 1973 and 1974. In those MLB trails, Stelmaszek hit .170 in 88 at bats with one home run and ten runs batted in. He batted left-handed and threw right-handed.

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* [http://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Rick_Stelmaszek Baseball Reference]