Name Joe Espada Role Baseball Player | Education University of Mobile | |
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Josue Espada (born August 30, 1975) is a Puerto Rican professional baseball player, coach, and manager. Espada took a job with the New York Yankees as a special assistant to General Manager Brian Cashman in 2014. He used to be the third base coach for the Miami Marlins. Prior to the 2015 season, Espada was named the Yankees' third base coach.
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Playing career
Espada attended the University of Mobile, where he played college baseball for the Mobile Rams. He was selected by the Oakland Athletics in the second round (45th overall) of the 1996 Major League Baseball draft. He was selected in the 1998 Rule 5 draft by the Minnesota Twins, but he failed to make the Twins roster and was returned to the Athletics.
Espada signed with the Marlins as a free agent in 2001, and was traded to the Colorado Rockies for Juan Acevedo. He later played for the Kansas City Royals, St. Louis Cardinals, Texas Rangers, and Tampa Bay Devil Rays organizations. He played until 2005, reaching Triple-A, but never playing in the majors.
Coaching career
After retiring, he joined the Florida Marlins' organization in 2006. He served as the hitting coach of the Greensboro Grasshoppers of the Class A South Atlantic League in 2006 and for the Jupiter Hammerheads of the Class A-Advanced Florida State League in 2007. Espada spent the next two seasons as the Marlins' minor league infield coordinator.
The Marlins named Espada as their third base coach prior to the 2010 season. He also coached for the Puerto Rican national baseball team during the 2013 World Baseball Classic. Espada served as the Marlins' third base coach through the 2013 season. After the season, he was reassigned to manage Jupiter, as the Marlins wanted Espada to gain managerial experience. Instead, Espada took a job with the New York Yankees as a special assistant to General Manager Brian Cashman.
On January 11, 2015, he was hired by the New York Yankees to be the team's new infield coach and third base coach. He manages the Gigantes de Carolina of the Liga de Béisbol Profesional Roberto Clemente in winter baseball. Espada again coached the Puerto Rican team in the 2017 World Baseball Classic.
Personal
Espada resides in Jupiter, Florida and White Plains, New York, with his wife Dr. Pamela Dearth-Espada and their two daughters.
During the winter, Espada trains his right and left arms' biceps and triceps so he could increase his "wave home" speed and therefore, make the player running home more effective.