Mike Fetters


Michael Lee Fetters is an American professional baseball pitcher and coach. He is currently the bullpen coach for the Arizona Diamondbacks. He played in Major League Baseball for eight teams during his 16-year career from to. Fetters started his playing career with the California Angels and also played with the Milwaukee Brewers, Oakland Athletics, Baltimore Orioles, Los Angeles Dodgers, Pittsburgh Pirates, Arizona Diamondbacks, and Minnesota Twins. Fetters had his best season in when he finished fifth in the American League in saves with 32 with the Brewers. Fetters finished his career with 100 career saves.
Fetters is of mixed ethnicity, being half-Caucasian and half-Samoan in ancestry.

Career

Fetters is a graduate of Iolani School, where he played high school baseball in the early 1980s, in Honolulu, Hawaii.
Fetters played baseball at Pepperdine University and was drafted in the first round of the 1986 Major League Draft by the California Angels. Fetters is known for his head movement while on the mound. Prior to a pitch, he took a deep breath and moved his head quickly 90 degrees to the left. He explained that being stressed during pitching was the reason for his head movement. In, teammate Mark Grace comically imitated the Fetters move when invited to pitch one Diamondbacks inning. During one game in the 2004 season, Houston Astro Craig Biggio imitated Fetters' head movement and scowl while batting against him, drawing laughter from the Houston crowd. Fetters is a cousin of American baritone Stephen Totter. he works as the Arizona Diamondbacks bullpen coach after four years as a quality control coach.