Jeff Remo

Jeffrey John Remo

• Bats Right, Throws Right
• Height 6' 3", Weight 185 lb.
• School University of Texas at El Paso
• High School Mahwah High School

• Born May 22, 1962 in Mahwah, NJ USA

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Biographical Information

Jeff Remo was a catcher at Mahwah High School and was drafted by the Chicago Cubs in the sixth round of the 1980 amateur draft. Rutgers University baseball coach Fred Hill deemed Remo to be one of New Jersey's all-time best high school hitters.

He played in the Cubs' minor league system from 1980 to 1983, but peaked at Class A. He hit below .200 in both 1980 for the GCL Cubs and 1982 for the Quad Cities Cubs in the Midwest League, but he received significant playing time both years. In his final season, split between Quad Cities and the Geneva Cubs of the New York-Penn League, he hit .228 in 58 games. An injury forced Remo to retire from the game: he accidentally shot himself in the head with a .22 pistol, just under his left eye, and was lucky not to kill himself.

After playing minor league baseball, he attended the University of Texas-El Paso where he was a quarterback from 1985 to 1987. Future NFL coach and multiple Super Bowl winner Andy Reid was a coach there at the time, as was Dirk Koetter, another future NFL head coach. His younger brother Roger played one season in the NFL as a linebacker.

He later coached both the Mahwah High School baseball, football and softball teams, stepping down as head football coach after the 2017 season. In baseball, he coached his son Ryan, who later went on to play college baseball at Fordham University. He later coached C Kyle Teel, who went to be a first-round pick in the 2023 amateur draft after a stand-out career at the University of Virginia. He also worked for years as an instructor for Professional Baseball Instruction, being one of the first persons hired by the academy's founder, former minor league pitcher Doug Cinnella, who also served as his pitching coach at Mahwah. He was a high school teammate of Roberto Casasnovas.

Sources: Professional Baseball Instruction Bio

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