Dana LeVangie

Dana Alan LeVangie (born August 11, 1969) is an American professional baseball scout and coach, who was the pitching coach for the Boston Red Sox of Major League Baseball (MLB) in and . Formerly a scout and minor league catcher, as an active player he both batted and threw right-handed and was listed at and .

Early years A native of Whitman, Massachusetts, LeVangie graduated from Whitman-Hanson Regional High School in 1987; he then attended Cape Cod Community College in West Barnstable, Massachusetts (1987–1989), and American International College (AIC) in Springfield, Massachusetts (1989–1991). He was a catcher on the AIC Yellow Jackets baseball team for two seasons (1990–1991). As a senior, LeVangie batted .473 with 13 home runs and 87 RBIs, and was named 1991 Division II Northeast Player of the Year. and played in the Boston farm system through 1996. He mostly played at the Class A-Advanced and Double-A levels, along with eight games in Triple-A. He was a career .196 hitter with seven home runs and 78 RBIs in 351 games played. LeVangie participated in spring training replacement games in 1995, during the 1994–95 MLB strike.

Post-playing career LeVangie became the bullpen catcher for the 1997 Red Sox, and served in that role for eight years, through the 2004 Red Sox championship season. He then worked as a scout for the Red Sox for eight seasons, The first non-pitcher to hold that role for the Red Sox since Mike Roarke in 1994, The Red Sox finished third in their league in team earned run average (3.75), then won 11 of 14 post-season games to capture their ninth world title.

On October 8, 2019, the Red Sox announced that LeVangie would not return as the team's pitching coach for the 2020 season, but would stay with the team as a pro scout.

Personal life LeVangie was inducted to the AIC Yellow Jackets Hall of Fame in 2006. As of November 2017, LeVangie lives in East Bridgewater, Massachusetts, with his wife and two children.