Bill Evers

William Joseph Evers (born January 29, 1954) is an American professional baseball coach and a former minor league player and longtime manager and instructor. In November 2018, he was named a coach on the staff of Rocco Baldelli, the manager of the Minnesota Twins of Major League Baseball. The appointment marked the second MLB staff assignment of Evers' 44-year baseball career: he spent and as the bench coach during Joe Maddon's first two seasons as skipper of the Tampa Bay Devil Rays. Career Evers was born in New York City. He received his BA in management and recreation from Eckerd College in St. Petersburg, Florida, in 1976 and was selected by the Chicago Cubs in the sixth round of the secondary phase of the June 1976 Major League Baseball draft. During his four-year playing career, Evers was a catcher and first baseman who batted and threw right-handed; he was listed as tall and . Peaking at the Triple-A level with 30 games played in 1978–79, he hit 11 home runs with an even 200 hits in 274 total games, with 161 walks and 113 strikeouts.

After coaching in the Cubs' minor-league organization, and served as acting manager in Baldelli's place when Baldelli took paternity leave that same month.