Dana Kiecker
Dana Ervin Kiecker is a former starting pitcher in Major League Baseball who played for the Boston Red Sox during 1990-1991. He batted and threw right-handed.
Kiecker played college baseball for the St. Cloud State Huskies and was a freshman on the 1980 team which was a rarity among NCAA Division II teams in that it featured two other future Major Leaguers, Jim Eisenreich and Bob Hegman. He was drafted in the eighth round of the 1983 Major League Baseball draft.
In a two-season career, Kiecker posted a 10-12 record with 114 strikeouts and a 4.68 ERA in 192.1 innings pitched. He started a game in the 1990 American League Championship Series but his career was ended the following year by arm injuries.
After being released by the Red Sox in 1991, Kiecker continued to play amateur baseball. In 1993, he turned down a contract offer from the independent St. Paul Saints. He would, however, go on to become a long-serving television analyst for the club.
Kiecker began driving a truck for United Parcel Service in 1988 during his offseasons with the Pawtucket Red Sox., he had risen to National Accounts Manager. He became a pitching coach at Dakota County Technical College in 2017 and retired from UPS in 2018.
, he lived in Eagan, Minnesota., he lived in Eagan with his wife, Julie, and their children, Paige and Mitchell.
