Scott Hennessey has been the manager of the AA Tulsa Drillers since 2017 and, by popular request, will be back at the helm in T-Town again in 2022. Best known as “Henny”, Hennessey is one of the most well-liked, respected, and successful people in the Dodgers organization. “Henny” expects his players to play with a lot of energy, but at the same time, enjoy themselves as they play every day. Here are outfielder James Outman’s thoughts on Hennessey
Henny expects you to ball out every day and compete every day. He made it easy to turn it on every day from a competitive perspective and he was easy to play for because he expected you to want to compete and he was out there wanting to compete everyday too.
Here is what pitcher Gus Varland had to say about Hennessey
I love his coaching style! He has the attitude that I will not get beat and wants you to approach every pitch like it might be your last, so I love it
Here are some more thoughts from 6’8 pitching prospect, Mark Washington
Coach Henny, he’s the man, quite honestly. Not many managers give you the opportunity to stay in the game because usually when the manager comes out you’re getting yanked. Not many managers give you the opportunity to ask you how you feel and then keep you in the game. That happened a couple times and when I’m on the mound I’m pretty intense, and he let me do my thing and I was really grateful for that. He’s a players coach and I really enjoy talking to him on and off the field.
AA to LA
By the time a player makes AA baseball, they have major League caliber talent but, many times, are still in the process of learning how to be a professional. From the AA stage forward, advancement becomes largely about off the field intangibles, opportunity, and, sometimes, just plain luck. AA players are mostly the highly rated prospects who have not been in the MLB yet, so, many times, the AA stage of a players career is the most crucial from a development perspective because they are truly learning the process of what it takes to be an everyday professional.
Always Been Great
Scott Hennessey is a coach that has a personal feel to the Tulsa area as he helped turn a fairly close by JUCO, Cowley County, into a National Power as an assistant Coach under Dave Burroughs. Hennessey is in the Cowley County Hall of Fame, and every kid that grows up playing baseball in Oklahoma knows all about Cowley County, so when he got the AA Tulsa managerial job in 2017, he became an instant local favorite. Here is what Dave Burroughs, the longtime head coach at Cowley County had to say about Hennessey.
Scott hasn’t changed since he’s been here at Cowley. At Cowley we all had the same goal of winning a title and meshed together perfectly. People said we couldn’t win a JUCO World Series title in the state of Kansas, so we were all driven to prove them wrong. Scott is a great man and a great coach.
Between his Cowley days and becoming the AA Tulsa manager, Hennessey was a scout with the Dodgers and signed several players that made it to the Major Leagues so he has an eye for talent. He also knows how to nurture and develop that talent and has a simple approach and that is to just simply get better every day.
Scott Hennessey, “Henny”, job well done sir and thank you for everything you do for the Dodgers! I have had the awesome opportunity to talk to several Drillers players, and can say, to a man, “Henny” is well respected, loved and much appreciated by the players he is in charge of to develop.
