The High Point Rockers’ Jamie Keefe, the 2025 Atlantic League Manager of the Year, enters his seventh year as manager, having led the club to four playoff appearances in his first six seasons.

With over 2,000 career games managed and 1,207 career victories, Keefe is among the very few professional managers to eclipse those two milestones.

Entering his 23rd year as a manager, Keefe starts the season with a 1,207-1014 career record along with a .543 winning percentage.

Through his first six seasons in the Atlantic League, Keefe’s Rockers teams have posted a 435-332 record. That .567 winning percentage places Keefe sixth all-time in league history. And High Point’s 435 wins over the last six years are 79 more victories than any other ALPB team during that time period.

With 2,221 career regular season games under his belt, Keefe is in rarefied air among professional baseball managers.

Keefe’s clubs have reached the playoffs in 11 of his 22 seasons and he led the Rockland Boulders to the 2014 Can-Am Association championship.

The playoff run includes the 2025 season when Keefe led the Rockers to the South Division first half championship and a five-game win over the Gastonia Ghost Peppers in the South Division Championship series. High Point reached the ALPB League Championship Series for the second time, falling to the York Revolution 3-1 in the finals.

The Rockers were able to entice Keefe to High Point to manage their inaugural season in 2019.  He promptly led the Rockers to a 74-66 record and a spot in the playoffs, marking the first time an Atlantic League expansion team had reached the postseason in its first year.

And Keefe worked his magic again in 2021, assembling a team that remained in contention for the playoffs throughout the season.

In 2022, Keefe kept the Rockers in contention for both the first and second half South Division pennants and their year-long dominance earned a wild card spot into the playoffs. High Point needed five games to subdue Gastonia in the South Division Championship Series. In the League Championship Series, Lancaster took the title, three games to none.

The 2023 High Point season produced the best regular season in franchise history. The Rockers locked up a playoff spot early by winning the South Division’s first half title and then sharing the second half championship.

The Rockers selected Keefe as their very first manager after a successful run with the Rockland Boulders. Keefe spent six seasons with the Boulders, leading them to 344 wins and two Manager of the Year awards as well as a Can-Am League championship in 2014.

Prior to joining Rockland, Keefe spent the 2011 season as the head coach of the Pittsfield Colonials of the Can-Am Association, earning Manager of the Year honors by posting a 53-39 record and taking the club to the playoffs.

A native of Rochester, N.H., Keefe was a third round draft pick of the Pittsburgh Pirates after being named the Boston Globe’s New Hampshire Scholastic Player of the Year in 1992. He signed with the Pirates as a shortstop just hours after finishing his prep career in which he led Spaulding High School to the state semifinals by hitting .378 and succeeding in all 16 stolen base attempts.

Keefe’s journey in professional baseball commenced when he reported to the Bradenton Pirates just days after his high school graduation.

In 1993, the Pirates moved him to second base and assigned him to Lethbridge after having spent the spring in extended spring training. He played the 1994 season at Augusta, Ga. in the South Atlantic League where he hit .266 in 50 games, and in Welland, Ontario.

In 1995, Keefe was with the San Diego Padres and advanced through their system, reaching Class AAA Las Vegas in 1997.  Shortly thereafter began his relationship with independent baseball.

Keefe signed with the Bend Bandits of the Western League in 1998 and also spent time with the Massachusetts Mad Dogs in the Northeast League. His independent journey brought him to Chillicothe, Ohio where he spent the 1999 and 2000 seasons.  In August 2000, he transitioned from player to coach and then became the manager of the Paints for the 2001 season.

Keefe led Chillicothe to a 51-33 record that first season as the Paints won their division in the Frontier League and reached the championship series.  Jamie led Chillicothe to 188 wins in his four seasons before moving to the Florence, Ky. Freedom.  He spent part of the 2010 season managing in Kalamazoo before joining the Pittsfield Colonials as an assistant coach. He was named Pittsfield’s manager for 2011 and earned his first Manager of the Year award in taking the Colonials to the championship round.