Bob Kipper, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
TweetBob Kipper
American baseball player
Date of Birth: 08-Jul-1964
Place of Birth: Aurora, Illinois, United States
Profession: baseball player
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Cancer 
About Bob Kipper
- Robert Wayne Kipper (born July 8, 1964) is an American professional baseball coach and a former middle-relief pitcher in Major League Baseball.
- In 2018, he will begin his third different term as the pitching coach of the Greenville Drive of the Single-A South Atlantic League.
- Kipper has also spent two terms (2002 and the final seven weeks of the 2015 season) as bullpen coach of the parent Boston Red Sox.A native of Aurora, Illinois, Kipper, a left-hander, stood 6 feet 2 inches (1.88 m) tall and weighed 200 pounds (91 kg) during his active career.
- After graduating from Aurora Central Catholic High School, he was selected by the California Angels with the eighth pick in the first round of the 1982 Major League Baseball Draft.
- He had signed to play baseball at Nebraska before his selection.
- Kipper led the Class A California League in wins (18) and earned run average (2.04) as his league's "pitcher of the year" in 1984.
- He made his MLB debut with the Angels in April 1985 at age 20, but was ineffective in two games pitched and was returned to the minor leagues.
- Then, on August 16, 1985, the contending Angels included Kipper in a six-player trade with the Pittsburgh Pirates that netted them veterans John Candelaria, George Hendrick and Al Holland.
- Kipper would pitch in 247 games for the Pirates over all or parts of seven seasons (1985–91)—initially as a starter, but then as a relief specialist—before finishing his MLB career for the Minnesota Twins in 1992. In his eight-season MLB career, Kipper posted a 27–37 record with a 4.43 ERA and 11 saves in 271 appearances.
- He allowed 527 hits and 217 bases on balls, with 369 strikeouts, and 562 innings pitched. Following his playing retirement, Kipper has worked as a pitching coach in independent league baseball and in the minor leagues.
- A member of the Boston Red Sox organization since 1999, he has coached for their Lowell Spinners (1999), Augusta GreenJackets (2000–01), Greenville Drive (2005–06; 2008–09; 2018), Lancaster JetHawks (2007), Portland Sea Dogs (2003–04; 2010–14), and Pawtucket Red Sox (2015–17) affiliates, working with teams from short-season leagues to Triple-A. Kipper spent the full 2002 season as bullpen coach of the MLB Red Sox.
- Thirteen years later, on August 16, 2015, he was named Boston's interim bullpen coach, part of a chain reaction of moves driven by manager John Farrell's medical leave of absence for treatment of lymphoma.
- In Farrell's absence, bench coach Torey Lovullo became acting manager and bullpen coach Dana LeVangie became acting bench coach.
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