Scott Radinsky - former Angels BP coach

[notherhalo]

kind of a cool story, also the long time owner of the now closed SKATELAB in Simi Valley

 

http://m.mlb.com/ana/roster/coach/120877/scott-radinsky

https://ftw.usatoday.com/2017/03/los-angeles-angels-scott-radinsky-punk-rock-pulley-ten-foot-pole-bullpen-coach-mlb

Perhaps the only person in history who has both struck out Ken Griffey Jr. and opened for Green Day, Radinsky spent the 1990s pitching as a high-energy lefty reliever in Major League bullpens and spent his offseasons — still spends his offseasons — touring as a frontman for a series of Southern California-based punk outfits

"going through the baseball season, staying at the Ritz-Carlton, the Marriott, and a month later I’m somewhere in Brazil, sleeping on the floor, just played a divey-ass punk club the night before."

Radinsky missed the entire 1994 MLB season battling — and beating — Hodgkin’s Disease

 

https://www.wbur.org/onlyagame/2020/04/10/scott-radinsky-white-sox-punk-singer

 

Scott struck out Ken Griffey, Jr. seven times in 16 at bats.

Griffey’s on record as saying that Radinsky was the toughest lefty he ever faced.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Radinsky

Describing his life mixing both baseball and punk, he noted: "I don't think some of the guys [in Pulley] realized that I was on an eight-month tour [playing and coaching baseball] every day from February until October, and then I'd come home and a couple of weeks later we'd go out on a three-week European tour playing a gig every single day."