AirHogs Coaching Staff
Pete Incaviglia - Field Manager
Pete Incaviglia was named the first manager in Grand Prairie AirHogs history in the fall of 2007. Under his leadership in 2008, the club sent seven players to the league All Star Game and topped the cross-town rival, the Fort Worth Cats in the Southern Division Championship Series. To date, the team has also had six players purchased by Major League organizations.
Incaviglia was widely regarded as the best college player of all time after a record setting career at Oklahoma State. In 1985 (his junior year at Oklahoma State University), Incaviglia was selected Baseball America's NCAA Player of the Year, establishing NCAA single-season records in homers (48), RBIs (143), slugging percentage, and total bases all in just 75 games. In January of 1999, he was named the College Baseball Player of the Century by an assortment of fans and a panel of baseball experts that included George Will, Bob Costas, and Steve Wulf. In, 2007, he was inducted into the College Baseball Hall of Fame.
He was drafted by the Expos as the eighth pick of the 1985 draft, but was traded to the Texas Rangers where he broke into the majors without ever having played a game in the minor leagues. Pete hit at least 20 home runs in each of his first five seasons in the big leagues before making stops in several places including Philadelphia, Houston, Detroit, Baltimore, and Japan. Throughout his big league career, Incaviglia hit 206 home runs with 655 RBIs.
Incaviglia also spent three seasons as a coach in the Detroit Tigers farm system.