finalyear bats birth_place debutyear finaldate statvalue position finalteam statlabel debutdate birth_date article_title debutteam name throws
1977 left stockton , california 1977 october 2 .318 22 7 second baseman cleveland indians batting average at bats hits september 25 7 april 1951 dave oliver
 cleveland indians dave oliver right
dave oliver

david jacob oliver -lrb- born april 7 , 1951 at stockton , california -rrb- is a former infielder and coach in major league baseball , and is currently a member of the front office of the texas rangers .
primarily a second baseman as a professional player , he batted left-handed and threw right-handed , stood tall and weighed .
he attended california polytechnic university .
oliver originally signed with the cleveland indians in 1973 after being selected in the third round of the june draft , and his only trial in the major leagues consisted of seven games with the 1977 indians .
he batted 22 times , collecting seven hits , including a triple , three runs batted in , and four bases on balls .
his batting average was .318 .
he returned to the cleveland farm system and played through 1980 , then became manager of the indians ' batavia farm club in the short season class a new york-penn league in 1981 -- 82 .
the following year , he joined to the rangers for the first time , as manager of their tri-cities affiliate in the short season-a northwest league .
then , in 1984 , he became the rangers ' roving minor league infield instructor .
in 1985 -- 86 , he returned to managing , this time at the triple-a level , as pilot of texas ' top affiliate , the oklahoma city 89ers of the american association , leading them to a first place finish in the association 's western division in 1985 .
he was then promoted to the major leagues as a coach for the rangers -lrb- 1987 -- 94 -rrb- and the boston red sox -lrb- 1995 -- 96 -rrb- , working as a third-base coach after 1987 under managers bobby valentine , toby harrah and kevin kennedy .
he spent the season in professional baseball as manager of the stockton , california-based mudville nine , a class a california league farm team of the cincinnati reds , but largely worked in private business in the stockton area until he rejoined the rangers as special assistant for baseball operations in , hired by ranger ceo and former baseball hall of fame pitcher nolan ryan .
in , he was listed by the rangers as special assistant for player development .
