Frank Cacciatore
Introduction '''Frank I. Cacciatore''' (born April 25, 1955 in Tampa, Florida) is currently a minor league baseball coach in the Philadelphia Phillies organization. He is a former minor league baseball player and manager and a former college baseball coach.
Playing career Cacciatore played in the Detroit Tigers organization in 1975 and 1976.For the Lakeland Tigers in 1975, he hit .223 in 72 games. In nine games for the Montgomery Rebels in 1976, he hit .200.Overall, he batted .220 in 81 minor league games.
Post-playing career After his minor league playing career ended, Cacciatore coached baseball at the college level for many years. In 1986, he managed the Hyannis Mets, a collegiate summer baseball team in the prestigious Cape Cod Baseball League.rightCacciatore's first minor league managerial job came in 1988, when he was a last-minute replacement as manager of the Auburn Astros of the short-season Class A New York–Penn League. (Jim Coveney had been named manager of the Auburn Astros for 1988 but replaced Gary Tuck as manager of the Asheville Tourists in mid-season, before he had managed a single game for Auburn.) In Auburn, Cacciatore was the first professional manager of future Major League Baseball stars Luis Gonzalez and Kenny Lofton, both of whom were selected by the Houston Astros in the 1988 draft and assigned to Auburn to begin their professional baseball careers.As of 2012, Cacciatore has managed seven different teams at the short-season Class A, full-season Class A, and Double-A levels of Minor League Baseball. Cacciatore has also coached in the Houston Astros, San Francisco Giants, Florida Marlins, Montreal Expos/Washington Nationals, and New York Mets systems. He is currently the hitting coach for the Reading Fightin Phils.=== Year-by-year Minor League managerial record === Year  Team  League  Record  Finish  Organization  Playoffs 1988  Auburn Astros  New York–Penn League  42-33  5th  Houston Astros  1990  Asheville Tourists  South Atlantic League  66-77  9th  Houston Astros   1991  Asheville Tourists  South Atlantic League  55-83  14th  Houston Astros   1996  Shreveport Captains  Texas League  73-66  3rd  San Francisco Giants  1997  San Jose Giants  California League  60-80   10th  San Francisco Giants  1999  Portland Sea Dogs  Eastern League  65-77  9th (t)  Florida Marlins   2006  Hagerstown Suns  South Atlantic League  58-82  14th  New York Mets   2007  St. Lucie Mets  Florida State League  68-71  8th  New York Mets  Lost in 1st round
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