Scott Radinsky

Scott David Radinsky (born March 3, 1968) is an American left-handed former relief pitcher in Major League Baseball, who had an 11-year career from – and –. Radinsky is also the lead singer of the punk rock band Pulley, former lead singer of the band Ten Foot Pole and former co-owner of a skatepark that housed the Skateboarding Hall of Fame.

Radinsky finished his playing career with a 42–25 record, a 3.44 ERA, and 358 strikeouts in innings pitched. Radinsky also only gave up 33 home runs throughout his career, an average of 1 every 14.5 innings. He won the 1995 Tony Conigliaro Award.

Early life Radinsky was born in Glendale, California, later lived in Simi Valley, California. His father is from West Virginia, and his mother is from Boston. His mother is Jewish but Radinsky himself does not identify as Jewish.

He graduated from Simi Valley High School, for whom he played baseball in 1986.

From that point through 1993, he was a fixture in a White Sox bullpen that also included hardthrowing Bobby Thigpen and Roberto Hernández.

In 1991, Radinsky enjoyed his finest year with the White Sox, going 5–5 with 8 saves and a 2.02 ERA. He was 10th in the league with 67 appearances. He held batters to a .116 batting average with runners in scoring position.

In 1992, he was seventh in the AL, pitching in 68 games, and had a 2.73 ERA and a career-high 15 saves. In 1993, he was second in the league, pitching in 73 games, and won a career-high eight games while saving four.

He underwent surgery at Sarasota Memorial Hospital, and months of radiation therapy and chemotherapy. During spring training in 1994 his White Sox teammates wore a patch of Radinsky's # 31 on their jersey. in 2009 he was the coach of the Columbus Clippers for the third straight season.

On November 16, 2009, Radinsky was named as bullpen coach for the Indians major league club for the 2010 season.

On October 14, 2011, it was announced that Radinsky would be promoted to pitching coach for the Indians for the 2012 season, to replace Tim Belcher who stepped down at season's end to spend more time with his family. On August 9, 2012, the Indians fired Radinsky and replaced him with Ruben Niebla, from their Triple-A affiliate, the Columbus Clippers, on an interim basis.

On January 23, 2013, Radinsky was hired as the pitching coach for the Ogden Raptors, a Rookie-level affiliate of the Los Angeles Dodgers, playing in the Pioneer League. He was promoted to pitching coach for the Double-A Chattanooga Lookouts in 2014, and again in 2015 to pitching coach for the AAA Oklahoma City Dodgers.

He became the bullpen coach for the Los Angeles Angels in 2016. After the team finished last in the Honkbal Hoofdklasse, he left the team after the 2024 season.

Music career

Radinsky has also been active in punk rock. A fixture in the 1980s "Nardcore" (Oxnard, California hardcore) scene, he sang for Scared Straight, which recorded an LP ("You Drink, You Drive, You Die") and several compilation cuts for Mystic Records. The band later changed their name to Ten Foot Pole and after recording two albums, in 1995 parted ways with Radinsky, due to his time-consuming baseball career.

Since 1994, Radinsky has been the lead vocalist for the punk rock band Pulley, which has toured three continents and opened for bands such as Green Day. In 2017, he was featured in Baseball Punx, a documentary exploring the intersection between baseball and punk rock. Describing his life mixing both baseball and punk, he said: "I don't think some of the guys [in Pulley] realized that I was on an eight-month tour [playing and coaching baseball] every day from February until October, and then I'd come home and a couple of weeks later we'd go out on a three-week European tour playing a gig every single day."

Discography

with Scared Straight Nardcore Compilation LP (Mystic Records, 1984) Party Animal - We got Power II Compilation LP (Mystic Records, 1984) Mystic Super Seven Sampler No. 1 Compilation 7" (Mystic Records, 1985) Born to be Wild" 7 (Mystic Records, 1985) You Drink, You Drive, You Die LP (Mystic Records, 1988)

with Ten Foot Pole Swill (Ten Foot Records, 1993) Rev (Epitaph Records, 1994) Ten Foot Pole & Satanic Surfers Split EP (Bad Taste Records, 1995)

with Pulley Esteem Driven Engine (Epitaph Records, 1996) 60 Cycle Hum (Epitaph Records, 1997) @#!* (Epitaph Records, 1999) Together Again for the First Time (Epitaph Records, 2001) Matters (Epitaph Records, 2004) The Slackers/Pulley Split (Do Tell Records, 2004) Beyond Warped: Live Music Series (Immergent Records, 2005) Time-Insensitive Material (Whens Lunch Records, 2009) The Long And The Short Of It (Whens Lunch Records, 2011) No Change in the Weather (Cyber Tracks, 2016) The Golden Life (Sbäm Records, 2022)

Skatepark Radinsky co-founded owned Skatelab in Simi Valley, California from its opening in 1997 until its closure in January 2019. The skatepark housed a comprehensive skateboarding museum displaying pieces from all eras of skateboarding, including many rare and collectible skateboards, and the Skateboarding Hall of Fame.

Personal life Radinsky married his wife, who is from Caracas, Venezuela, on June 7, 1992. She is the sister-in-law of his former teammate Ozzie Guillén. They have three children. Radinsky currently resides in Thousand Oaks, California.