Dave Roberts (outfielder)
David Ray Roberts is an American professional baseball manager and former outfielder. He is the manager of the Los Angeles Dodgers of Major League Baseball. Roberts is the son of a Japanese mother and African American father. He played for five MLB teams over a ten-year career and then coached for the San Diego Padres before being named Dodgers manager in 2016. In 2017, Roberts became the first manager of Asian heritage to lead a team to the World Series.
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David Ray Roberts is an American professional baseball manager and former outfielder. He is the manager of the Los Angeles Dodgers of Major League Baseball. Roberts is the son of a Japanese mother and African American father. He played for five MLB teams over a ten-year career and then coached for the San Diego Padres before being named Dodgers manager in 2016. His most notable achievement as a player was a key stolen base in the 2004 ALCS that ignited the Red Sox’s drive to their historic championship that year. In 2017, Roberts became the first manager of Asian heritage to lead a team to the World Series in 2017, when the Dodgers captured the National League pennant. He also led the Dodgers to theWorld Series in 2018 and 2020, winning in the latter year. Roberts left UCLA as the school’s all-time stolen-base leader and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in history in 1995. The Cleveland Indians drafted him in the 47th round of the 1993 MLB draft. The Detroit Tigers signed him on June 9, 1994. He began his career with the Jamestown Jammers, the Tigers’ short-season class A team in the New York–Pennsylvania League. In 1998, he played in 69 games for the Jacksonville Suns, with a. 296 average and 23 steals. In June 1998, Roberts and Tim Worrell were traded to the Akron Aeros for Gerónimo Berroa. He was traded just before the Southern League All-Star Game and played in the game wearing an Indians hat even though the Indians did not have a Triple-A team at the time.
In 2000, he was assigned to the Buffalo Bisons, where he batted. 361 in 56 games with 28 steals. Roberts was named to the All-A Southern League mid-season team and was all-star team. In 2001, he hit. 326 with 21 stolen bases and hit in 69 game for the Buffalo Aeros’ Triple-Star team. He then played in 105 games for them, with an average of. 296 and 21 steals. He left the Bisons after the 2001 season and was named All-star all-league team once again. In 2002, he joined the San Francisco Giants and played for them until the end of the season. In 2003, he left the Giants for the Tampa Bay Rays. In 2004, Roberts played for the Boston Red Sox for only part of one season, and was traded for the Cleveland Indians for $1.5 million. He has a younger sister, Melissa, who is also a high school football star. Roberts’ father, Waymon, was a United States Marine stationed in Japan when he met and married Eiko, Roberts’s mother. His childhood was spent moving from one military base to another in two- and three-year sequences, first in Okinawa where he was born, then to multiple bases in California, to Okinawa again, to North Carolina, to Hawaii, and finally back to California, eventually settling in San Diego. Roberts decided to attend UCLA and joined the Bruins baseball team as a walk-on outfielder.
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