Most succinctly described, Jerry Weinstein is a baseball polymath.
Weinstein, a scouting-and-player development assistant for the Rockies, was recently named the winner of the 2018 Tony Gwynn Award by Baseball America. The annual lifetime achievement honor is given to someone who’s made lasting contributions to the game.
In addition to a dozen-plus seasons of service with the Rockies, including a stint as Double-A Hartford’s manager in 2017, Weinstein has also managed or assisted for various other minor league and Division I teams, the USA Baseball team and Team Israel in the World Baseball Classic. But he said his crowning baseball achievement was the 23 seasons he spent building Sacramento City College into a junior college powerhouse.