Batting average .257 Role Baseball player Name Danny Heep | Runs batted in 229 Home runs 30 | |
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Education St. Mary's University, Texas | ||
Ryan becomes the first pitcher to fan 4,000
Daniel William Heep (born July 3, 1957), is a retired Major League Baseball outfielder.
Contents
- Ryan becomes the first pitcher to fan 4000
- Baseball career
- NCAA coach
- Head coaching record
- Personal
- References
Heep, who batted and threw left-handed, played for five different ballclubs during his 13-year career: the Houston Astros (1979–1982), New York Mets (1983–1986), Los Angeles Dodgers (1987–1988), Boston Red Sox (1989–1990), and Atlanta Braves (1991).
Heep played for two different World Series champions: the New York Mets in 1986, and the Los Angeles Dodgers in 1988.
Baseball career
Heep played baseball for, and graduated from, Lee High School in San Antonio.
Heep played for St. Mary's University in San Antonio where he was twice an All-American, in 1976 and 1978, as a pitcher. At St. Mary's he earned his bachelor's degree in physical education, and he is a member of that school's Athletic Hall of Fame.
Originally drafted by the Houston Astros in the 1979 Major League Baseball Draft, he would compile a .331 batting average, 23 home runs and 108 RBIs in a little over a year in the minors to earn his first major league call up. His major league debut came on August 31, 1979 against the New York Mets. He would remain with the Astros through the end of the season, compiling just a .143 average and two runs batted in. The second RBI, however, was a game winner against the Los Angeles Dodgers on September 30.
He was traded to the New York Mets for future Cy Young Award winner Mike Scott.
Danny Heep was the 4000th strikeout victim to Nolan Ryan on July 11, 1985.
NCAA coach
Heep was the head coach for the NCAA Incarnate Word Cardinals baseball team in San Antonio from 1998-2017. Since becoming head coach in 1998, the program has won two conference championships. In 2014, they became a Division I program in the Southland Conference.
Head coaching record
Below is a table of Heep's yearly records as a collegiate head baseball coach.
Personal
His uncle was former major league catcher Matt Batts, who played for the Boston Red Sox, St. Louis Browns, Detroit Tigers, Chicago White Sox and Cincinnati Redlegs between 1947 and 1956.