Ducey was raised in
Cambridge, Ontario and graduated from
Seminole Community College. The
Toronto Blue Jays signed Ducey as a free agent in . He debuted in MLB with the Blue Jays in and played with the team until the end of July . He then played in MLB for the
California Angels (1992),
Texas Rangers (–),
Seattle Mariners (–),
Philadelphia Phillies (–, 2000-), and
Montreal Expos (2001), with a brief return to Toronto in 2000. He ended his 13-year major league career with a .242
batting average and 31
home runs in 703 games. He also played for the
Nippon-Ham Fighters in
Nippon Professional Baseball in 1995 and 1996, hitting 51 home runs, topping his 31 home runs in MLB. Ducey was part of a major league anomaly in 2000, when he was traded by the Phillies to the Blue Jays on July 26 for minor league pitcher John Sneed, and was then traded by the Blue Jays back to the Phillies on August 7 for
Mickey Morandini. Ducey served as a
designated hitter for
Canada in the
2004 Summer Olympics, which finished in fourth place. As a result, he became the first Canadian to have played for two Canadian MLB teams, the Expos and Blue Jays, and the Canadian Olympic team.
Matt Stairs,
Denis Boucher, and
Shawn Hill are the only other ballplayers to achieve such distinction. Ducey was hired to scout for the
Tampa Bay Rays in the 2011 season, then joined the Phillies minor league system in 2014, again serving as a hitting coach through 2017. In 2020, Ducey was the hitting coach for the
Fubon Guardians of the
Chinese Professional Baseball League (CPBL). Ducey also coached Canada in the
2006 World Baseball Classic,
2008 Olympics, and
2015 WBSC Premier12. ==Awards==