finalyear bats birth_place debutyear finaldate statvalue position finalteam statlabel debutdate birth_date article_title debutteam name throws
1946 right parlier , california 1946 july 2 0 -- 1 8.25 8 pitcher chicago cubs win -- loss record earned run average strikeouts may 5 7 october 1921 red adams
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red adams

charles dwight `` red '' adams -lrb- born october 7 , 1921 -rrb- is an american former professional baseball pitcher , scout and pitching coach .
the native of parlier , california , pitched only briefly in major league baseball , but had a lengthy career as a scout and coach for the los angeles dodgers .
a right-hander in his playing days , he stood tall and weighed .
adams won 193 games in the minor leagues from 1939 to 1942 and in 1944 -- 58 , including a 21-victory season for the 1945 los angeles angels of the pacific coast league .
his major league pitching tenure , however , consisted of only 12 innings over eight games for the chicago cubs in .
after his playing career , he was a scout for the dodgers from 1959 to 1968 .
he then worked as the dodgers ' mlb pitching coach from 1969 to 1980 , serving on three national league pennant-winning teams -lrb- 1974 ; 1977 -- 78 -rrb- under managers walter alston and tommy lasorda , and helping develop many of the dodgers ' pitchers .
said 324-game-winning pitcher don sutton upon his induction into the baseball hall of fame in july 1998 : `` no person ever meant more to my career than red adams .
without him , i would not be standing in cooperstown today . ''
