Bryan Eversgerd

{{short description|American baseball player and coach (born 1969)}}

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|birth_place=Centralia, Illinois, U.S.

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|debutdate=April 30

|debutyear=1994

|debutteam=St. Louis Cardinals

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|finaldate=September 26

|finalyear=1998

|finalteam=St. Louis Cardinals

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Bryan David Eversgerd (born February 11, 1969) is an American professional baseball coach and former pitcher. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the St. Louis Cardinals, Montreal Expos, and Texas Rangers, and was the bullpen coach for the Cardinals from 2018 until 2022.

Playing career

Eversgerd grew up a St. Louis Cardinals fan in Carlyle, Illinois.{{cite news |last1=Wendland |first1=Jeff |title='Gerdy' living his dream with Cardinals |url=https://qconline.com/sports/professional/gerdy-living-his-dream-with-cardinals/article_fa30ed2d-0901-50b4-b923-ccd6e152b17e.html |access-date=26 August 2019 |work=The Dispatch / The Rock Island Argus |date=August 19, 2006 |language=en}} Eversgerd, a pitcher, played college baseball at Kaskaskia College in Illinois where he would later be named to the community college's athletics hall of fame.{{cite web |title=Bryan Eversgerd |url=https://www.kaskaskiaathletics.com/inside_athletics/hall_of_fame/bios/Bryan_Eversgerd?view=bio |publisher=Kaskaskia College |access-date=26 August 2019 |language=en}} In June 1989, Eversgerd signed a minor league contract with the St. Louis Cardinals after attending an open tryout at Busch Memorial Stadium. He made his Major League debut with the Cardinals in 1994. Before the start of the 1995 season, Eversgerd was traded as part of a package to the Montreal Expos for Ken Hill.{{cite news |title=Hill Goes to Cardinals, Wetteland to Yankees as Expos' Purge Begins |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1995-04-06-sp-51434-story.html |access-date=26 August 2019 |work=Los Angeles Times |agency=Associated Press |date=6 April 1995}} After the 1995 season, Eversgerd was traded to the Boston Red Sox but would fail to appear for the big league club. With the Red Sox, Eversgerd met Mike Maddux, with whom he would later coach on the Cardinals.{{cite news |last1=Hochman |first1=Benjamin |title=Hochman: Cardinals' new bullpen coach keeps living the dream |url=https://www.stltoday.com/sports/columns/benjamin-hochman/hochman-cardinals-new-bullpen-coach-keeps-living-the-dream/article_658dc85d-9602-5f4f-a8b0-e07e623f391e.html |access-date=26 August 2019 |work=St. Louis Post-Dispatch |date=February 19, 2018 |language=en}} After appearing for the Texas Rangers in 1997, Eversgerd would finally return to the Cardinals in 1998 before retiring from playing in 2000.

Coaching career

In 2001, Eversgerd became a pitching coach in the St. Louis Cardinals farm system with a goal of eventually becoming a major league coach for the Cardinals. The 2017 season was his fifth as pitching coach of the Memphis Redbirds.{{cite news |last1=Eschman |first1=Todd |last2=Wilhelm |first2=David |title=St. Louis Cardinals add Southern Illinois native to staff |url=https://www.bnd.com/sports/mlb/st-louis-cardinals/article181087841.html |access-date=27 August 2019 |work=Belleville News-Democrat |date=October 26, 2017}} On October 26, he was promoted to the St. Louis Cardinals as their new bullpen coach.{{cite web |url=http://m.cardinals.mlb.com/news/article/259762400/mike-maddux-named-cardinals-pitching-coach |title=Mike Maddux hired to be Cards pitching coach |work=MLB.com |date=October 26, 2017 |access-date=October 26, 2017 |archive-date=October 27, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171027050343/http://m.cardinals.mlb.com/news/article/259762400/mike-maddux-named-cardinals-pitching-coach/ |url-status=dead }} The Cardinals parted ways with Eversgerd after the 2022 season.{{cite web | url=https://www.stltoday.com/sports/baseball/professional/cardinals-announce-coaches-jeff-albert-mike-maddux-will-not-return-in-2023/article_1da903e1-08e6-5bc7-9b00-349bf4aaabb7.html | title=Cardinals announce coaches Jeff Albert, Mike Maddux will not return in 2023 | date=26 October 2022 }}

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