Kevin Kennedy

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Kevin first started playing with DRS in 1998, shortly after joining the agency and hearing about the team from Dave Cushman.

During his first few seasons, Kevin had his playing time split evenly between the outfield and the pitching mound. Over time though, “Pops” would use his ‘old’ age and supposed knee problems as grounds for his moving away from duty in the outfield. (We really think he just got tired of chasing the gopher balls surrendered by fellow DRS hurler, Steve Fador.) In any case, by 2000, Earnest Baldwin had stopped playing regularly with the taxmen, so Kevin was needed on the hill as the ace of the DRS staff. However, there were many games when Kev would also fill in throughout the infield. At various times, he filled in ably at second, short, and third.

But despite solid play at nearly every position on the ball field, it’s on the pitching mound where he’s made his biggest contributions to the club. In eight seasons, he’s had 89 pitching appearances spanning 449 innings, made 67 starts, and racked up a record of 42 wins and 23 losses - all totals ranking as team bests. Additionally, he’s recorded 10 saves and notched 6 strikeouts. The “K-man,” as he’s come to be called by his teammates, is the team’s all-time top pitcher, capturing the DRS equivalent of the Cy Young Award five times.

At the plate, Kevin has been one of the team’s catalysts on offense, serving as one of the team’s two regular leadoff batters, along with Scott Deslaurier.

Kev has played 136 games with DRS, accumulating 243 base hits, 209 runs scored, 139 ribbies, 43 doubles, 16 triples, and 16 homeruns. Against Elisa’s Jawbreakers in the 2005 Easter Seals Softball Weekend, Kevin belted a grand slam, and in a 2002 game against Hughes Health, Kevin hit for the cycle. Back in 1998, in only his second game with the taxmen, Kevin went 5 for 5, scored 5 runs, knocked in 4, and laced a pair of doubles and a triple in a DRS win over AAA.

Kevin wasn’t able play any games during the ‘06 season due to work and family priorities, but the “K-man” vows it was only a one-year break, and that he fully expects to be back wit the club for spring training in April of 2007.