Manager of the Colorado Rockies
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Manager of the Colorado Rockies, Walt Weiss is a former shortstop in Major League Baseball who played for the Oakland Athletics, Florida Marlins, Colorado Rockies, the and Atlanta Braves. Weiss was a member of the 1998 National League All-Star Team. He also won the 1988 Rookie of the Year award.
In 1989 Weiss saw his offensive numbers dip as he battled through injury and adversity. The A's again clinched the pennant and met their crosstown rival San Francisco Giants in the 1989 World Series. Although the Series would be overshadowed by the earthquake which delayed play for three days, Weiss homered, and the A's swept the Giants to claim their first title in fifteen years.
1990 saw Weiss put up his best offensive numbers to date in hits, runs, and batting average, while stealing nine bases. The A's won their third straight pennant, but Weiss was injured in the 1990 American League Championship Series against the Boston Red Sox and missed the A's 1990 World Series loss to the Cincinnati Reds, four games to none.
Weiss played in 158 games in 1993 for the Marlins, but following the season he became a free agent and chose to sign with the Colorado Rockies.
In December 1997, Weiss signed with the Atlanta Braves, and became their starting shortstop. Weiss batted .280 and made the All-Star team for the 1998 Braves, who finished with 106 wins, but was slowed by injuries and appeared in less than a hundred games for the first time since 1991. The next season, Weiss's decline continued as he only finished with a .226 average.
However, in Game 3 of the 1999 NLDS against the Houston Astros, Weiss made a stunning defensive play to save the season. In the bottom of the tenth, with the bases loaded, one out, and the score tied, Tony Eusebio hit a sharp grounder right up the middle. Weiss ranged hard to his left, dove to his stomach, and threw to home to get the force out. After the game, Weiss said that the ball nearly ripped the glove off of his hand. Weiss and the Braves went on to win the game, and the series, on the way to an appearance in the 1999 World Series.
In 2000, Weiss only had 192 at-bats, mostly due to losing playing time to the emergent Rafael Furcal, who would go on to win the Rookie of the Year Award, just like Weiss twelve years prior. Following the season, Weiss retired.
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