Played For
Baltimore Orioles (1964)
Cleveland Indians (1968)
Kansas City Royals (1969-1973)
New York Yankees (1974-1984)

Primary Team
New York Yankees

Manager For
New York Yankees (1986-1988)
Cincinnati Reds (1990-1992)
Seattle Mariners (1993-2002)
Tampa Bay Devil Rays (2003-2005)
Chicago Cubs (2007-present)

Primary Team
Seattle Mariners

Awards
All-Star (1): 1972
American League Manager of the Year (2): 1995, 2001
American League Rookie of the Year 1969

Lou Piniella is the current manager of the Chicago Cubs and
a former Major League Baseball outfielder. He has been nicknamed
"Sweet Lou," both for his swing as a major league hitter and,
facetiously, to describe his demeanor as a player and manager.
Piniella played for the Kansas City Royals from 1969-73, and was
the American League's AL Rookie of the Year in 1969. He was the
first player to come to bat in Royals history. That was followed by
11 years as a member of the New York Yankees, where he was part
of five AL East titles (1976-78, 1980 and 1981), four AL pennants
(1976-78 and 1981), and two World Series Championships (1977-78). One of the more underrated players of the 1970s
(he made just one all star team), he compiled 1705 lifetime hits
despite not playing full time for just under half of his career.

After retiring as a player, Piniella managed the Yankees from
1986 to 1987 and for most of 1988 before briefly serving as the club's general manager for the rest of the 1988 and 1989 seasons. Piniella managed the Cincinnati Reds between 1990 and 1992, a tenure that included winning the 1990 World Series. From 1993-2002, he managed the Seattle Mariners, winning the AL Manager of the Year Award in 1995, and again in 2001 when he led the Mariners to a record-tying 116 wins. Piniella is the only manager in Mariners history to have a winning record in his tenure with the team, while serving at least one season. In his first two seasons with the Devil Rays, Piniella was able to improve the team somewhat, and they won a franchise-record 70 games in 2004, which was also their first season in which they did not finish last in their division. Currently, Piniella is the Chicago Cubs manager. He will be in the second year of a three year deal.