Telmanch Gainey (born December 25, 1960) is a former Major League Baseball outfielder who played for the Houston Astros from 1985 to 1987.

After his playing career in Asia, Gainey started giving baseball lessons at the Maplezone Sports Institute in Garnet Valley, Pennsylvania.

The team featured future Astros star Bill Doran, and Gainey appeared in ten games, and batted .230 in his first year of professional baseball.

In 1989, he agreed to terms on a minor league deal with the Cleveland Indians, who assigned Gainey to their Triple A team in Colorado Springs.

One of Gainey's teammates on the 1993 BlueWave team was a nineteen year old second year player named Ichiro Suzuki[1] Over the next several seasons, Gainey split his time between playing in Mexico, returning to the Mexico City Reds, and playing for teams in China.