Chuck Kniffin

Who is Chuck Kniffin?

Charles Edward Kniffin is a retired American professional baseball player and coach. Much of Kniffin's three-decade professional career was spent in minor league baseball, but he served 2½ seasons as the Major League pitching coach of the 2002–2004 Arizona Diamondbacks on the staff of then-manager Bob Brenly.

A 5 ft 11 in, 185 lb left-handed pitcher during his playing days, Kniffin was selected by the Philadelphia Phillies in the 25th round of the 1969 Major League Baseball Draft out of Nassau Community College. He pitched for ten seasons in the Phillie farm system, compiling a 55–40 record in 244 appearances. He then was out of baseball from 1979–1987 before becoming a pitching coach at the minor league level in the Seattle Mariners' organization. He switched to the Montreal Expos' organization in the early 1990s, then to the Diamondbacks' farm system when that expansion team began play in 1998, serving such teams as the Harrisburg Senators, Ottawa Lynx and Tucson Sidewinders.