Danny Heep

Danny Heep
Outfielder
Born: (1957-07-03) July 3, 1957 San Antonio, Texas
Batted: Left Threw: Left
MLB debut
August 31, 1979, for the Houston Astros
Last MLB appearance
June 8, 1991, for the Atlanta Braves
MLB statistics
Batting average	.257
Home runs	30
Runs batted in	229
Teams
Houston Astros (1979–1982) New York Mets (1983–1986) Los Angeles Dodgers (1987–1988) Boston Red Sox (1989–1990) Atlanta Braves (1991)
Career highlights and awards
2× World Series champion (1986, 1988)

Daniel William Heep (born July 3, 1957), is a retired Major League Baseball outfielder.

Heep played for five different ballclubs during his 13-year career: the Houston Astros (1979–1982), New York Mets (1983–1986), Los Angeles Dodgers (1987–1988), Boston Red Sox (1989–1990), and Atlanta Braves (1991).

Heep played for two different World Series champions: the New York Mets in 1986, and the Los Angeles Dodgers in 1988.

Baseball career

Heep played baseball for, and graduated from, Lee High School in San Antonio.

Heep played for St. Mary's University in San Antonio where he was twice an All-American, in 1976 and 1978, as a pitcher. At St. Mary's he earned his bachelor's degree in physical education, and he is a member of that school's Athletic Hall of Fame.

Originally drafted by the Houston Astros in the 1979 Major League Baseball Draft, he would compile a .331 batting average, 23 home runs and 108 RBIs in a little over a year in the minors to earn his first major league call up. His major league debut came on August 31, 1979 against the New York Mets. He would remain with the Astros through the end of the season, compiling just a .143 average and two runs batted in. The second RBI, however, was a game winner against the Los Angeles Dodgers on September 30.

He was traded to the New York Mets for future Cy Young Award winner Mike Scott.

Danny Heep was the 4000th strikeout victim to Nolan Ryan on July 11, 1985.

NCAA coach

Currently, Heep is the head coach for the NCAA Incarnate Word Cardinals baseball team in San Antonio. Since becoming head coach in 1998, the program has won two conference championships. In 2014, they became a Division I program in the Southland Conference.

Head coaching record

Below is a table of Heep's yearly records as a collegiate head baseball coach.

Season	Team	Overall	Conference	Standing	Postseason
Incarnate Word (Heart of Texas Conference – DII) (1998–1999)
1998	Incarnate Word	33-17
1999	Incarnate Word	30-22	12-8
Incarnate Word (Heartland Conference – DII) (2000–2013)
2000	Incarnate Word	20-28
2001	Incarnate Word	35-21	12-4
2002	Incarnate Word	31-24
2003	Incarnate Word	30-27
2004	Incarnate Word	40-17		1st	NCAA Regional
2005	Incarnate Word	35-19
2006	Incarnate Word	38-21		1st	NCAA Regional
2007	Incarnate Word	34-21
2008	Incarnate Word	39-17
2009	Incarnate Word	36-17
2010	Incarnate Word	42-18			NCAA Regional
2011	Incarnate Word	37-18			NCAA Regional
2012	Incarnate Word	23-21
2013	Incarnate Word	26-26
Incarnate Word (Southland Conference – DI) (2014–present)
2014	Incarnate Word	18-32	9-15	11th
Incarnate Word (Div. I):		18-32	9-15
Total:		547-366
National champion         Postseason invitational champion         Conference regular season champion         Conference regular season and conference tournament champion       Division regular season champion       Division regular season and conference tournament champion       Conference tournament champion

Personal

His uncle was former major league catcher Matt Batts, who played for the Boston Red Sox, St. Louis Browns, Detroit Tigers, Chicago White Sox and Cincinnati Redlegs between 1947 and 1956.

References

• Article – from University of the Incarnate Word's official website.
• Interview with Danny on Blog Talk Radio. [1]
• New York Times Article on Heep's collision with Terry Blocker. [2]

External links

• Career statistics and player information from MLB, or ESPN, or Baseball Reference, or Fangraphs, or Baseball Reference (Minors)