Career
He was drafted second overall in the January secondary 1970 Major League Baseball Draft. He currently serves as the Bench Coach for Major League Baseball"s Washington Nationals. Speier played 19 seasons in the Major Leagues as a shortstop for the Montreal Expos, San Francisco Giants, Chicago Cubs, and briefly for the Saint Louis Cardinals and Minnesota Twins during the 1984 season.
He accrued a career.246 batting average and a.970 fielding percentage.
His overall playing strengths were his solid fielding and selective eye at the plate. He led the league in intentional walks in 1980 and 1981.
He was a coach on the World Series Champion Arizona Diamondbacks in 2001. He was the third base coach for the Chicago Cubs from 2005 to 2006.
He was signed by the Cincinnati Reds on October 29, 2007, as an infield coach and also served as the Reds" bench coach.
He also filled in when manager Dusty Baker was hospitalized in Chicago in September 2012 – this was when they clinched a playoff berth. He was replaced as the bench coach by Jay Bell when Dusty Baker was fired, but stayed on in the Reds organization as a Special Assistant to General Manager Walt Jocketty. He was named by new Nationals manager Dusty Baker as the bench coach fro the 2016 season.