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Brennan Boesch
Boesch at Camden Yards in April 2011
Free Agent – No. 26
Right fielder
Born: (1985-04-12) April 12, 1985 (age 39)
Santa Monica, California
Bats: Left
Throws: Left
debut
April 23, 2010, for the Detroit Tigers
Career statistics
(through 2012 season)
Batting average.259
Home runs42
Runs batted in175
Stats at Baseball Reference Edit this at Wikidata
Teams
Career highlights and awards

Brennan Bust Boesch (born April 12, 1985) is an American professional baseball outfielder who is currently a free agent. He is 6' 4" and weighs 235 pounds. Boesch won the American League Rookie of the Month Award the first two full months he was in the major leagues.[1]

High school career

Boesch played high school baseball at Harvard-Westlake School in North Hollywood, Los Angeles.[2][3] As a junior, Baseball America ranked him one of the top 25 prospects in the country.[4] He won the World Wood Bat Championship as a member of Team Baseball America, was selected Best Hitter at the Area Code Games, Best Power Hitter at the Team One Nationals and won the Daily News Invitational Home Run Derby. In his senior year he batted .490 with seven home runs and was selected First Team All-C1F and a First Team High School All-American for the All-American Game.[4]

College career

On the day University of California coaches came to scout him, Boesch swung at only three pitches - all for home runs. Highly recruited by professional scouts and colleges, Boesch chose the University of California, Berkeley, where he hit the ball out of the park in his first college at bat. Boesch played three years of college baseball at the Berkeley from 2004–06. He was awarded All-Pac-10 first team honors as a sophomore center fielder.[5] He was the winner of the 2005 Clint Evans Award as the team's best hitter and co-winner of the team award for most valuable player.[6]

Minor Leagues

Boesch playing for West Michigan in 2007

Following his junior season, he was drafted in the third round of 2006 Major League Baseball Draft by the Detroit Tigers.[7]

Boesch began his minor league career in 2006 with the short season Oneonta Tigers, where he was a NY-Penn League All-Star. With the Single-A West Michigan Whitecaps, in 2007, Boesch led all of Single A in RBI's and was third in hits. With the Double-A Erie SeaWolves, Boesch led the Eastern League in home runs (28) and won the MILB Round Trippers Award for leading all of AA in homeruns, en route to his selection by Baseball America as Best Power Prospect AA. With the AA Seawolves, Boesch was named the Seawolves' Most Valuable Player, League Mid-Season All-Star, Post-Season All-Star, led the League in Total Bases (1st), Extra Base Hits (1st), Runs (4th), RBI's (3rd), and Boesch also won a Gold Glove as he led the League with 15 Outfield assists. Boesch was added to the Tigers 40-man roster and started the 2010 season with the Triple-A Toledo Mud Hens. After winning Tigers Minor League Player of the Month in his first month in AAA, Boesch was called to the Major Leagues on April 23, 2010.[8]

Detroit Tigers

2010

Boesch as a rookie at Dodger Stadium

The Tigers called up Boesch from the Toledo Mud Hens to replace the injured Carlos Guillén on April 23, 2010.[9] Boesch made his major league debut the same day in a game against the Texas Rangers. Boesch hit a double off the left-field wall on the first pitch in his first major league at-bat.[10]

Boesch hit his first major league home run—a grand slam off Los Angeles Angels pitcher Joel Piñeiro—on April 30. Coming in the same inning as Scott Sizemore's first career home run, it was the first time two Tigers had hit their first career home runs in the same inning since Pop Dillon and Kid Elberfeld did it in 1901.[11]

Boesch was named the American League Rookie of the Month for May and June 2010[12][13] and Tigers Player of the Month in June. In his rookie season Boesch topped all American League rookies with 14 home runs and 67 RBI.

2011

After placing sixth in American League Rookie-of-the-Year voting, Boesch’s 2011 campaign began with his earning a starting position in the Tigers’ outfield. He started the season strong, leading the American League in June with 41 hits and a .380 batting average, but after establishing career bests with 75 runs scored, 121 hits and 16 homeruns, and a .283 batting average, Boesch’s season ended when he suffered a torn ligament in his hand in early August. It was the first time in his baseball career that Brennan had been sidelined by a serious injury. His 2011-2012 off-season focused on a long post-surgery rehabilitation, and Boesch started the 2012 season slowly. He had his best month in July, when he hit .295, with 4 homeruns and 17 RBI’s. But after July, with his playing time reduced, Boesch completed his season with a .240 batting average, 12 homeruns and 54 RBI’s. Against their arch Central Division rivals, , the White Sox, in two key games during the pennant race, Boesch hit two game-winning homeruns off Sox ace lefty Chris Sale, the only homeruns Sale gave up all year to a left-handed batter. Eligible for arbitration after three years of MLB service, the Tigers, in January, 2013, signed Boesch to a one-year $2.3 million dollar contract for the 2013 season.

References

  1. ^ 2012 Tigers Information Guide (PDF). 2012. pp. 70–73.
  2. ^ "Top Performers". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved September 3, 2011.
  3. ^ Sondheimer, Eric. "Powered Up at Harvard-Westlake". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved September 3, 2011.
  4. ^ a b "Cal Baseball Lands Gem Recruit Boesch". Daily Californian. October 2, 2003. Retrieved April 23, 2010.
  5. ^ "Brennan Boesch profile". calbears.com. Retrieved September 3, 2011.
  6. ^ "Player Bio: Brennan Boesch". Calbears.com. Retrieved September 3, 2011.
  7. ^ Gripp, Heather (April 20, 2005). "H.-W.'S BASHERS LEAD CAL". Los Angeles Daily News. Retrieved April 23, 2010.
  8. ^ Kornacki, Steve (November 20, 2009). "Tigers add Audy Ciriaco, Scott Sizemore and two other minor leaguers to 40-man roster". Mlive.com. Retrieved April 24, 2010.
  9. ^ Lowe, John (April 23, 2010). "Carlos Guillen goes on disabled list". Detroit Free Press. Retrieved April 23, 2010. [dead link‍]
  10. ^ Lowe, John (April 24, 2010). "Ramon Santiago refuses to fold in 9th; Brennan Boesch goes 2-for-4". Detroit Free Press. Retrieved April 24, 2010. [dead link‍]
  11. ^ Beck, Jason (May 1, 2010). "Rookies have a milestone night in Detroit". MLB.com. Retrieved May 1, 2010.
  12. ^ Boesch named AL's top rookie for May, MLB.com, June 2, 2010.
  13. ^ Brennan Boesch of the Detroit Tigers voted winner of the Gillette presents American League Rookie of the Month Award for June MLB.com

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