Todd Edward Zeile (/zil/; born September 9, 1965) is an American former professional baseball third baseman, catcher, and first baseman in Major League Baseball (MLB). On Saturday, Aug. 18, Todd took to the stage twice during the " Celebrate New York Music Festival " at Sharkey's in Liverpool. Exceeded rookie limits during 1990 season, Agents: Levinsons Previously: Dennis Gilbert, View Player Bio Todd Zeile covered the New York Mets as an analyst throughout the 2021 season. He maintained a grip on the bat with both hands all the way around his left shoulder and back down again, providing a hacking lift on balls he frequently drove to left and left-center. The depth of their dysfunction was revealed on one dismal day, June 16, when they fired their manager, Joe Torre, and traded their cleanup hitter, Todd Zeile. It was the second-longest span ever between appearances at the position. Honored that for the third consecutive year, I have been named to the Super Lawyers, part of Thomson Reuters Rising Star Southern California list of. Jocketty, though, wasnt done for the day. In a 16-year career marked by steady production, Todd Zeile was literally all over the place. Along with Gregg Zaun and Jeff Zimmerman, he was one of three players on the team whose last names began with "Z". I have a pretty good track record to judge that. On Baseball Night in NY, Todd Zeile recalls young Patrick Mahomes running around the Mets clubhouse "playing tape ball" when he and Patrick Sr. were playing for New York. Manager Whitey Herzog, in his 11th season in St. Louis, resigned in disgust in early July, with Red Schoendienst serving briefly as interim manager and Joe Torre arriving in August. After a productive 1997 cracking a career-best 31 home runs, and knocking in 90 runs for a Dodger teams that would fall short by two games to the worst-to-first Giants in the NL West Zeile in 1998 found himself repeating his 1995 scenario all over again: traded in midseason amid an unresolved contract dispute. They have no speed.. Hed met the noted US Olympic gymnast Julianne McNamara when they were classmates at UCLA. Unhappy that the homegrown future Hall of Famer who could become a free agent after the 97 season had spurned the clubs offer of a contract extension and was thought to be holding out for a $100 million deal, the Dodgers under President Bob Graziano initiated trade talks with the Florida Marlins, which then were in the midst of a massive teardown. Before Zeile discussed the Mets latest injuries and improbable ways to lose games, he went down a different TV path. The team's pre- and postgame shows on SNY will have a new lead analyst, as Todd Zeile is replacing Nelson Figueroa, according to sources. Coleman's first tv appearance was in 1974 with commercials for Harris Bank. If you saw Todd Zeile play, you could see hes not a real aggressive person in his approach to the game. All images are property the copyright holder and are displayed here for informational purposes only. (Zeiles one-time trade counterpart, Mike Morgan, now playing with his seventh club, was a Rangers teammate that year. Todd Edward Zeile was born in Van Nuys, California, on September 9, 1965. The ritual is almost as painful for a doting father as for his diabetic 6-year . Zeile ended his career having hit at least one home run for each of the 11 teams he played for over the course of his career, distinguishing him as the only player in major league history to have hit a home run for over 10 teams. [6] It was his second appearance as a pitcher, having also appeared in a game for the Rockies in 2002. In the sixth inning of a scoreless Game One, with two out and Timo Perez on first, Zeile blasted a long drive off Yankees starter Andy Pettitte. 22 Mike Berardino, Zeile, Johnson Move On, South Florida Sun Sentinel, August 1, 1998: C-1. When Zeile played for the Los Angeles Dodgers in the 1990s, he met popular actor Charlie Sheen. He is an intense guy Hell bring a little fire to the clubhouse as well as to the field, Cardinals pitcher Tom Urbani said of Jorgensen. Some high school data is courtesy David McWater. How a stroke affects a person depends on which part of the brain is damaged. October 3, 2004 3 Albert Chen, How Baseball Vet Todd Zeile Went From Run Producer to Movie Producer, Sports Illustrated, July 1, 2015. https://si.com/mlb/2015/07/01/todd-zeile-hollywood-producer-charlie-sheen-profiles. vs. CIN 1 AB, 0 H, 0 HR, 0 RBI, 0 SB, Last Game: This biography originally appeared in From Spring Training to Screen Test: Baseball Players Turned Actors (SABR, 2018), edited by Rob Edelman and Bill Nowlin. The pairing of Torre and Zeile was a fateful one. It was also John Franco's last out made as a Met pitcher. What Is a Stroke? In the 8th inning, in his final play as a major leaguer, Ryan Church popped up to him, as a catcher, in foul territory. So perhaps Zeile was destined to earn his share of trivial . Zeile was batting .291 with five home runs and 22 RBI as the first baseman and cleanup hitter for the 1995 Cardinals. Todd Zeile was a Third Baseman, First Baseman and Catcher. Body goals. When the Cardinals fell to 53-61 in strike-shortened 1994, Torres friend, general manager Dal Maxvill, was fired and replaced by Walt Jocketty. The traditional counting stats tell a far different story about Todd Zeile's career. I mean look at the RRs from that first group who would eventually go on to be All-Stars: Ron Darling (#30) . The Mike Piazza trade shook baseball, up to and including Todd Zeile. After one season with Colorado, Zeile became a free agent again and signed with the Yankees in 2003. On the morning of June 16, with the Cardinals record at 20-27, Jocketty went to Torres home and informedhim he was fired. on.sny.tv/eUtp3WN We want to see your submissions as well. Todd Zeile was not happy here, he added. Todd Zeile was not happy, Jocketty told the Tribune. "He made such a mark on our world in his years on this planet, everyone who met him was richer for it. He is also a self-made millionaire businessman. Positions: As the Cardinals player representative, Zeile helped to make that tough call. YOU HAVE 20,000 FOLLOWERS: $100 per post at a $5/CPM. But in this study, patients with any leaksregardless of sizewere more likely to have stroke or TIA during follow-up than were those without leaks (8.3% vs 2.7%; P = 0.005). Zeile spent the first seven years of his career wih the St. Louis Cardinals, the team that used a second-round pick on him in 1986. Zeile, then a junior at UCLA, was the first of nine players from that squad selected in the June amateur draft, picked by the St. Louis Cardinals 55th overall, a second-round supplemental pick for having lost free agent Ivan DeJesus. He also pitched an inning with the Mets when they didn't have any pitchers left, as he gave up 5 runs in the 8th inning in the Mets' 19-10 loss to Montreal on July 26, 2004. The ball bounced off the padding at the very top of Yankee Stadiums left-field wall and back onto the field of play. Use without license or authorization is expressly prohibited. Morgan, who was also a free-agent-to-be, was re-signed by St. Louis, but released midway through a mediocre 96 campaign. Many thanks to him. NEW YORK -- Recently, former Mets infielder Todd Zeile moved apartments from Midtown to Lower Manhattan, so that he could walk to his job as an SNY analyst at 4 World Trade Center. $200 per post at $10/CPM. Chrisley Knows Best, News, Reality TV. There could be swallowing problems, pain, or numbness. Originally drafted by the Kansas City Royals in the 30th round of the MLB Amateur . [7] Following that game, which was the last of the season, the Expos moved to Washington, D.C. and became the Washington Nationals. The father of four can also watch his daughter Hannah perform as Kate Pearson on the NBC series This Is Us (in its second season in 2017), his son Garrett on stage as a musician, and his nephew Shane Zeile, his brother Mikes son, play outfield in the Detroit Tigers organization, which drafted Shane out of UCLA in 2014. Thats because he used the visit to Hollywood to shoot scenes in a movie in which he made an appearance as a drifter. SNY's Todd Zeile did not look happy near the end of Tuesday afternoon's pregame show. Become a Stathead & surf this site ad-free. (LogOut/ Massachusetts police made a spud-tacular break Friday in a decade-old cold-case murder thanks to a sweet potato. After splitting their first 18 games, the 1995 Cardinals lost 10 of their next 13 and fell to 12-19. The next year, he was 4-8 with a 5.24 ERA for St. Louis before he was released. Let us take a look back at his travels through the game. Authorities finally arrested a suspect Friday in the Feb. 27, 2011 . It was Zeile's first appearance there in 14 years. Zeile hit more than 30 home runs only once, and never broke 100 RBIs in a single season. Todd Zeile spent 16 years in the big leagues, from 1989 to 2004, hitting .265 with 253 home runs, 2,004 hits and 1,110 RBI. Zeiles aloofness was likely on general manager Walt Jockettys mind when Zeile was abruptly traded to the Chicago Cubs on June 17, 1995 hours before Jocketty also fired Torre in an extraordinary midseason reset. 23 Joe LaPointe, For Zeile, a Dream Takes on Reality, New York Times, October 17, 2000. https://nytimes.com/2000/10/17/sports/baseball-2000-playoffs-for-zeile-a-dream-takes-on-reality.html. The termination of Torre largely was viewed as alame effort to deflect attention from managements shortcomings. At the time, he had been worried about having low testosterone. They divorced in January 2015. Todd Zeile, 53, called 22 games with Gary Cohen sometimes with, sometimes without Keith Hernandez. He hit another 19 for Triple-A Louisville in 1989 when he was called up to the major leagues for the first time on August 16, swapping teams with reserve infielder Jim Lindeman. Zeile broke into the majors in 1989 as a catcher and the Cardinals' most anticipated prospect of the year. The cause is not known. One morning when he woke up, he found his face paralysed. He hit over 20 home runs four times, over 25 dingers twice and over 30 homers once. The Mets lost the game in 12 innings and a golden opportunity to gain momentum in a Series in which all five games were decided by two runs or less. Lee Thomas, who as a Cardinals executive had raved about Zeile as a youngster, was quick to scoop him up again, this time as the general manager of the rebuilding Philadelphia Phillies. The two struck up a friendship that lasted during and after the rest of Zeiles career. Born: September 9, 1965 in Van Nuys, CA us Draft: Drafted by the Kansas City Royals in the 30th round of the 1983 MLB June Amateur Draft from William S. Hart HS (Santa Clarita, CA) and the St. Louis Cardinals in the 2nd round of the 1986 MLB June Amateur Draft from . Or write about sports? That left him eight months to say something about Marcus Stroman. When it was all over in 2004, hed crafted an odd legacy: Of the 97 players in the All-Star Game era to have amassed both 2,000 hits and 250 home runs, Zeile was the only of them never to have been named to an All-Star team.1. All rights reserved. George Clooney. He stood upright, still, and relaxed in the batters box a style he said he patterned after his boyhood idol, Steve Garvey of the Dodgers.9 Unlike Garvey, Zeile tended to step toward third base when he swung, opening up and facing the pitcher directly upon contact. TODD ZEILE IS telling a story about going to Scotland a few years ago with Charlie Sheen in search of the Loch Ness monster. Hannah Zeile was born on 7th November 1997, in Los Angeles, the United States. Playing with a $2.5 million, one-year contract, Zeile banged out 25 home runs and drove in 99 runs that season, although it didnt all come for Philadelphia: With the Phillies hopelessly out of the race and Baltimore pushing for the postseason, Zeile and fellow veteran Pete Incaviglia were dealt to the Orioles in late August for fringe pitchers Garrett Stephenson and Calvin Maduro. Filled with sadness, the reality TV father shared a video of his mother Nanny Faye . He was also looked at as a major means of improving a St. Louis offense that was near the bottom in runs scored in 89. Fans think Todd died. (LogOut/ Selected by St. Louis Cardinals in the 2nd round of the free-agent draft (June 2, 1986). Cardinals manager Joe Torre wanted to make room for catcher Tom Pagnozzi and believed Zeile would be a more productive hitter and would have a longer career if he moved from behind the plate, so Zeile moved, with some reluctance, initially to first base and then to third base in 1990. I think it will be better in the long run to go somewhere where Ill be embraced., In comments to the Tribune, Zeile said, The organization hasnt made a commitment to the players to win. Naturally, Zeile had just put down roots, moving his young family which by this time included wife Julianne and two young children to a new home in Westlake Village.21 He didnt shop for real estate in South Beach, but Zeile hit well in Florida .291/.374/.427 over 270 plate appearances and was on the move again at the July trade deadline, swapped to the Texas Rangers for minor leaguers Dan DeYoung and Jose Santos, neither of whom ever reached the big leagues. Colorado Rockies' Todd Zeile (L) is congratulated by third base coach Toby Harrah (R) after Zeile's first inning, two-run homer against the Atlanta Braves 17 August 2002 at Turner Field in Atlanta . "We stayed in an old castle on the loch, and one night we went out on this . His best season in New York was a 22-home run, 79-RBI campaign in 2000, the same year the Mets made the World Series. Change), You are commenting using your Twitter account. Zeile shined during the Mets World Series run. In 2000, he then signed a contract with the New York Mets, where he rejoined Piazza, and moved to first base for the Mets in 2000, who wanted him to replace John Olerud. Win Expectancy, Run Expectancy, and Leverage Index calculations provided by Tom Tango of InsideTheBook.com, and co-author of The Book: Playing the Percentages in Baseball. Todd appears on the show since 2014. When I was at the arbitration hearing, he recalled, I listened to them rag me about my defense up hill and down dale.17, On the field, Zeile set a career high with 19 home runs that would have been more were it not for the strike beginning in August that wound up ending the season prematurely. The Cardinals moved the fences in at Busch Stadium for the 1992 season but the change didnt help Zeile, who suffered through a disappointing campaign (.257, 7 home runs, 48 RBIs in 548 plate appearances) that included a short hospitalization for taking a bad hop off his face and a demotion to Louisville in August. 250, George Kissell, Cardinals inspired Joe Torre to be manager, Don Larsen (5 wins, 10 saves), Stu Miller (5 wins, 19 saves) and Bobby Bolin (7 wins, 6 saves) were the top relieve, Check out today's new post for the story of why 40 years ago, February 1983, Whitey Herzog obtained another catcher, Bob Gibson talks hitting with Stan Musial, George Crowe. The transition wasnt easy for Zeile, who would lead National League third basemen with 25 errors in 1991, while teammate Pagnozzi won a Gold Glove. Zeile broke into the majors in 1989 as a catcher and the Cardinals' most anticipated prospect of the year. Zeile, much like her alter ego Kate is focused on the positive no matter who winds up at the dying Rebecca's bedside. 00:51. In his last game as a professional on October 3, the last game of the season, the Mets allowed Zeile to play . Cardinals fans of 1990 were, however, left asking, Wheres the beef? Zeile hit 15 home runs as a rookie but that total led the team as it sputtered to a 70-92 season and last place, 25 games behind the NL East-winning Pirates. Positions: Third Baseman, First Baseman and Catcher Bats: Right Throws: Right 6-1, 190lb (185cm, 86kg) . Cardinals manager Joe Torre wanted to make room for catcher Tom Pagnozzi and believed Zeile would be a more productive hitter and would have a longer career if he moved from behind the plate, so Zeile moved, with some reluctance, initially to first base and then to third base in 1990. Hes a baseball fanatic and a very knowledgeable baseball fan.26, Zeile said he had maintained an interest in movies and entertainment since childhood his favorite baseball movie is The Natural and launched his production career with the help of Bill Civitella, a Hollywood talent manager who was also Zeiles neighbor in Westlake Village.27, In addition to Dirty Deeds, Zeile produced or co-produced I Am, a movie about the Ten Commandments released to video in 2010; as well as the Comedy Central Roast of Charlie Sheen; three seasons of Anger Management, which aired on FX from 2012-2014; a comedy video called Lip Service; and The Miracle of San Quentin, a movie in production as of 2017. 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