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Baseball player
Dave Keller
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Dave Keller as manager of the Daytona Cubs in 2013
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Born:
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1959-09-28
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September 28, 1959
(age 64)
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Dave Keller
(born September 28, 1959) is a former minor league
baseball
player, coach and manager and major league coach for the
Cleveland Indians
. He is currently the manager for the
Chicago Cubs
Single A affiliate
Daytona Cubs
.
Keller attended the
University of Northern Colorado
from 1979 to 1982 where he excelled at both baseball and
basketball
. He still holds career records at the school for
RBI
(173),
home runs
(47) and
slugging percentage
(.756). Keller is also in the program's top ten lists for career
runs
(146),
total bases
(332) and
walks
(86). He also holds the single season Bears record for home runs (20). In basketball, Keller was an
All-North Central Conference
selection in 1982 and led the team in scoring with a 15.1
points per game
average. In 2006, he was inducted into the school's Athletic Hall of Fame.
In 1982, Keller was chosen in the 28th round of the 1982 draft by the
Cincinnati Reds
, and he played in their minor league system through the 1986 season. From 1987 to 1989, Keller was the manager for the
Billings Mustangs
of the rookie
Pioneer League
in the Reds organization.
In 1990, Keller was hired by the Cleveland Indians to manage their farm team in
Burlington, North Carolina
. In 1991, his
Burlington Indians
qualified for the
Appalachian League
playoffs. For the 1992 season, Keller was moved up to the Class A
Kinston Indians
. He was the manager for the K-Tribe through the 1994 season and earned
Carolina League
manager of the year honors in 1993. Keller finished up his managerial career with a stint as the skipper for South Bend of the
Midwest League
for the
Chicago White Sox
.
In 1999, Keller was named the minor league hitting coordinator for the Cleveland Indians. In 2000 and 2001, he served as a hitting instructor in their system. He finally made it to the major leagues as a bullpen coach for Cleveland in 2002 and 2003.
From 2004-2012, Keller was the minor league hitting coordinator for the
Chicago Cubs
. For the 2013 season, he was promoted to manager of the Advanced-A affiliate Daytona Cubs where he led the team to a 75-51 record and won the
Florida State League
championship by defeating the
Charlotte Stone Crabs
3-1. Keller led the club back to the Florida State League championship series in 2014, the team's final season in a 22-year run as a Cubs affiliate in Daytona Beach.
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