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Bradley David "Brad" Ausmus (; born April 14, 1969) is a former catcher in Major League Baseball, and the current manager of the Detroit Tigers. He has also previously managed the Israel national baseball team. A 1987 draft pick of the New York Yankees, he chose to alternate between attending Dartmouth College and playing minor league baseball. He then had an 18-year major league playing career with the San Diego Padres, Detroit Tigers, Houston Astros, and Los Angeles Dodgers. During his playing days he was an All Star in 1999, a three-time Gold Glove Award winner (2001, '02, and '06), and won the 2007 Darryl Kile Award "for integrity and courage".〔(SportsJustice: Scrapiron speaks. I listen. Ausmus is funny. ). January 27, 2007, Retrieved July 23, 2008.〕〔(Baseball Almanac: Darryl Kile Award ). Retrieved July 23, 2008.〕 A five-time league-leader at catcher in fielding percentage, he also led the league twice each in range factor and in percentage caught stealing, and once each in putouts and assists.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Brad Ausmus Statistics and History )〕〔 He finished his career in 2010 ranked third in major league history with 12,839 putouts as a catcher (trailing only Iván Rodríguez and Jason Kendall), seventh in games caught with 1,938, and 10th in both range factor/game (7.12) and fielding percentage (.994). He also ranked first all-time among all Jewish major leaguers in career games played (1,971), fifth in hits (1,579), and eighth in runs batted in (607; directly behind Mike Lieberthal).〔(Jewish Major Leaguers Career Leaders ). Retrieved July 23, 2008.〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Brad Ausmus Statistics and History )〕 He was inducted into the National Jewish Sports Hall of Fame in 2004. He worked in the Padres' front office as a special assistant from 2010 to 2013. On November 3, 2013, Ausmus became the 37th manager in the history of the Detroit Tigers, succeeding Jim Leyland. ==Early and personal life== Ausmus is Jewish, and was born in New Haven, Connecticut. His mother, Linda Susan (née Dronsick), is Jewish, and his father, Harry Jack Ausmus, is Protestant. His father is a retired professor of European history at Southern Connecticut State University, and the author of ''A Schopenhauerian Critique of Nietzsche's Thought'', which Ausmus calls his "favorite book." Ausmus' mother is Jewish, but he was not raised with the Jewish religion. Nonetheless, he still takes pride in his heritage. Ausmus stated in an interview with the ''Jewish Journal'': "I wasn't raised with the Jewish religion, so in that sense I don't really have much feeling toward it. But, however, in the last 10 or so years, I have had quite a few young Jewish boys who will tell me that I am their favorite player or they love watching me play or they feel like baseball is a good fit for them because it worked for me or it worked for Shawn Green or other Jewish players at the major league level. It has been a sense of pride. If you can have a positive impact on a kid, I'm all for it."〔(Jewish Journal: "Brad Ausmus: the new Jew in Dodger Blue" by Brad A. Greenberg ) May 22, 2009〕 In 2001 he did not play on Yom Kippur, the Jewish Day of Atonement, quipping that he "was trying to atone for my poor first half." Ausmus was the manager of the Israeli team at the 2013 World Baseball Classic. The Classic's rules permit non-Israeli citizens of Jewish heritage to play for the Israeli team. Ausmus and his wife, Liz, were married in 1995. They live in San Diego, and have two daughters, Sophie and Abigail. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Brad Ausmus」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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