Jody Davis
Manager
FULL NAME: Jody Richard Davis
BORN: 11/12/56 in Gainsville, GA
RESIDENCE: Gainsville, GA
FAMILY: Single
Former big league catcher, Jody Davis will skipper the Hawks in 2010. Davis' tenure marks only the second time Boise has been managed by a former Major Leaguer since Darrel Thomas in the late eighties.
BORN: 11/12/56 in Gainsville, GA
RESIDENCE: Gainsville, GA
FAMILY: Single
Former big league catcher, Jody Davis will skipper the Hawks in 2010. Davis' tenure marks only the second time Boise has been managed by a former Major Leaguer since Darrel Thomas in the late eighties.
Davis spent 2009 as the Cubs minor league catching coordinator.
- Davis was selected by the New York Mets in the third round of MLB's amateur draft in 1976, and made his debut five years later with the Cubs.
- The former catcher who played for Chicago from 1981-1988, batted .245 with 164 doubles, 127 homers and 490 RBI in 1,082 career games for the Cubs and Atlanta (1988-1990).
- In 1984 Davis set a career high with 94 RBI and earned his first All-Star selection as the Cubs won the National League's Eastern Division title.
- Managed the Peoria Chiefs in (2006), the Daytona Cubs in (2007-2008) leading them to a League Championship with a 73-59 record, and the Calgary Outlaws of the Canadian Baseball League leading them to a 24-13 record during the league's only season (2003).