Kenneth Thomas Joyce

Kenneth Thomas Joyce born October 28, 1964 in Portland, Maine is an American born baseball coach and manager. 
Ken was born in Portland, Maine and was a member of the 1983 Deering High School Class A State Champion baseball team before attending the University of Southern Maine. A four year starter as in infielder, he set an NCAA record with seven hits in a NAIA Regional tournament before participating in the 1985 NAIA College World Series. He finished his playing career and became the assistant baseball coach at the University of Southern Maine and coached in the NCAA Division III World Series. Ken became middle school a physical education teacher before joining the Portland Sea Dogs as a volunteer bullpen coach in 1994. The volunteer stint turned into his first professional coaching contract when he was named hitting coach of the Florida Marlins AA Sea Dogs affiliate in theEastern League. 
Ken became the hitting coach for the Utica Blue Sox of the New York-Penn League in 1997 earning the first of his World Series rings as part of the Florida Marlins organization. The Marlins promoted Ken to manager of the Blue Sox, a position he held in 1998 and 1999. He became the interim head baseball coach at New England College in the spring of 2000. In 2000 and 2001 Ken coached and managed in Independent Professional Baseball for the Northern League East Catskill Cougars and the Adirondack Lumberjacks. 
The Toronto Blue Jays hired Ken as the hitting coach for the Medicine Hat Blue Jays in 2002. He was promoted to the Blue Jays AA New Haven Ravens in the Eastern League in 2003 leading the team to a .293 team batting average. In 2004 Ken managed the Blue Jays A affiliate Charleston Alley Cats in the South Atlantic League to an 84-56 record. The Blue Jays relocated the Class A affiliate to Michigan where Ken managed the Lansing Lugnuts of the Midwest League in 2005 and 2006. He returned to the Eastern League in 2007 and 2008 as the hitting coach for the New Hampshire Fisher Cats. In 2009 Ken became the hitting coach for the Blue Jays AAA Las Vegas 51's of the Pacific Coast League leading them to a .290 team batting average.
Ken joined the San Francisco Giants in 2010 as hitting coach for the AAA Fresno Grizzlies of the Pacific Coast League earning his first of three World Series rings with the Giants. He then returned to the Eastern League as the hitting coach for the AA Richmond Flying Squirrels from 2011 to 2016 and was selected as the hitting coach for the Scottsdale Scorpions of the 2011 Arizona Fall League where he worked with Mike Trout and Bryce Harper who became 2012 NL and AL Rookies of the Year. 
In 2017 the New York Yankees hired Ken as the hitting coach for the Class A Charleston RiverDogs of the South Atlantic League. He spent half the season with Charleston and half the season with the Gulf Coast League Yankees West. Ken returned to the New York-Penn League as the hitting coach for the Staten Island Yankees in 2018 and 2019. He was selected to as the hitting coach for the Surprise Saguaros of the Arizona Fall League in 2019 before returning to the Eastern League with the AA Trenton Thunder in the pandemic shortened 2020 season.
Ken was inducted into the University of Southern Maine Husky Hall of Fame in 1998. He was also inducted into the state of Maine Baseball Hall of Fame in 2001. 
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YEAR 	TEAM 	AFFILIATION 	LEAGUE 	W 	L 	PCT.
1988 	Utica Blue Sox 	Marlins 	NY-Penn 	35 	41 	.461
1999 	Utica Blue Sox 	Marlins 	NY-Penn 	42 	33 	.560
2001 	Adirondack Lumberjack 	Independent 	Northern East 	26 	28 	.481
2004 	Charleston Alley Cats 	Blue Jays 	South Atlantic 	84 	56 	.600
2005 	Lansing Lugnuts 	Blue Jays 	Midwest 	70 	69 	.504
2006 	Lansing Lugnuts 	Blue Jays 	Midwest 	72 	65 	.526
2014 	Richmond Flying Squirrels 	Giants 	Eastern 	13 	8 	.619
 	 	 	 	342 	300 	.533
==In the media==
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