Kevin Youkilis
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| Kevin Youkilis | |
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| Born: March 15, 1979 Cincinnati, Ohio |
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| Bats: Right | Throws: Right |
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| May 15, 2004 for the Boston Red Sox | |
| Career statistics (through June 10, 2009) |
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| Batting average | .293[1] |
| Home runs | 76[1] |
| Runs batted in | 351[1] |
| On-base percentage | .392[1] |
| Slugging percentage | .484[1] |
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Kevin Edmund Youkilis (pronounced /ˈjuːkəlɪs/) (born March 15, 1979, in Cincinnati, Ohio), is an All Star Major League Baseball player, who has played with the Boston Red Sox and its minor league affiliates throughout his professional career, which began in 2001.
A Gold Glove Award winning first baseman[2] known for his intensity on the playing field,[3] Youkilis holds baseball's all-time record for most consecutive errorless games at first base.[4] He is a two-time World Series Champion, and winner of the 2008 Hank Aaron Award. Youkilis is also the team's players' representative.[5] His nickname is "Youk" (pronounced /ˈjuk/), and he has been called "The Greek God of Walks" in the book Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game and Faithful: Two Diehard Boston Red Sox Fans Chronicle the Historic 2004 Season
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[edit] Background and early career
Youkilis is the son of a Jewish jewelry wholesaler of Romanian heritage.[6] As a 14-year-old he had an uncredited one-line speaking role in the romantic comedy film Milk Money.[7] He attended Sycamore High School in the north-eastern suburbs of Cincinnati, where he was a member of the school team that won the AAU National Championship in 1994.
[edit] College
At the University of Cincinnati, he was a second-team All-American in 2000 and 2001. He set school records for home runs (53), walks (206), slugging percentage (.627), and on base percentage (.499).[1] In 2001, the Boston Red Sox drafted Youkilis in the 8th round (243rd overall).
[edit] Minor leagues
In 2001, Youkilis made his professional debut as a catcher with the Lowell Spinners, a Short-Season A Class franchise in the New York - Penn League. He went on to lead the league with a .512 OBP, 52 runs, and 70 walks while he hit for a .317 batting average in 59 games.[1] After leaving Lowell, he played five games with the Augusta GreenJackets of the South Atlantic League, a Low-A Class league.
In 2002, Youkilis appeared in 15 games for Augusta, in 76 games for the Sarasota Sox,[8] and in 44 games for the Trenton Thunder.[9] Youkilis hit .310 with 8 home runs and 80 RBIs for the year, and was voted Trenton's Player of the Year.[1] His .436 on base percentage was fifth-highest in the minors in 2002, and his 80 walks were seventh-most.[1][10] In recognition of his performance on the field, the Boston Red Sox named Youkilis their 2002 Minor League Player of the Year.
In 2003, Youkilis started the season with the Portland Sea Dogs. In 94 games, he led the Eastern League with a .487 on base percentage, and was third in the league with a .327 batting average.[1] Later, he earned a spot on the Eastern League All-Star team. After Portland, Youkilis moved up to play for the Pawtucket Red Sox, the Boston Red Sox Class-AAA franchise. During his time with Pawtucket, Youkilis managed to complete a streak he started while in Portland; he reached base in 71 consecutive games, tying future teammate Kevin Millar's minor league record for consecutive games reaching base.[1][11] His 104 walks were third-most in the minors in 2003.[12]
In 2004, Youkilis appeared in 32 games for Pawtucket, hitting .258 with three home runs, and a .347 on-base percentage, before being called up to the Red Sox on May 15. He played 43 more games for Pawtucket in 2005 before being called up again permanently.
[edit] Major league career - Boston Red Sox
[edit] 2004-05: Breaking in
On May 15, 2004, when Red Sox regular starting third baseman Bill Mueller was placed on the disabled list, Youkilis was called up for the first time. In his first major league game (at Toronto), batting 8th, Youkilis had 2 hits in 4 at bats. In his second at bat, he homered against 1996 Cy Young Award winner Pat Hentgen, becoming just the 7th player in team history to hit a home run in his first game.[1][13] Youkilis was named AL Rookie of the Month for May, after batting .318 with 7 RBIs, 15 runs, and a .446 OBP in 13 games.[1]
On September 24 that year, which was Yom Kippur, Youkilis was in uniform in the dugout but did not participate in the game out of deference to the religious holiday.[14] Youkilis was named the club's Rookie of the Year by the Boston chapter of the Baseball Writers Association of America.[15] He was on the roster for the Red Sox for the ALDS, making his sole appearance in Game 2 against the Angels. He was removed from the roster for the last two rounds, the ALCS and the World Series.
On the Opening Day roster for the first time in his career, in 2005 Youkilis hit .278 with a .400 on base percentage in 79 at bats in 44 games during five stints with the Red Sox. He saw an average of 4.68 pitches per plate appearance, the most by any Red Sox player with at least 50 at bats. He made 23 appearances at third base, 9 at first base, and 2 at second, and batted at least once from all nine spots in the batting order. On September 18 he fractured the tip of the ring finger of his right hand fielding a ground ball, and did not play again until October 2, the final day of the regular season.[1]
[edit] 2006-07: Starter
In 2006, his first full season in the majors, Youkilis became a regular first baseman (with 127 games at first). Until that time, he was primarily a third baseman, though he did play 9 games at first base with the Red Sox in 2005, and 56 games at first base in his minor league career. Also in 2006 he played in the outfield for the first time in his professional career, 18 games in left field.[16] Despite his inexperience in the outfield, Youkilis did not commit an error while in the outfield; he did, however, commit eight errors while playing the infield.
Youkilis tied for the major league lead in sacrifice flies (11) and led the AL with 4.42 pitches per plate appearance.[1] Also that year, Youkilis was 4th in the American League (AL) in OBP with runners in scoring position with 2 outs (.524), 7th in bases on balls (91), 8th in doubles (42) and batting average with runners in scoring position with two out (.375), 9th in walk percentage (13.8%),[17] and 10th in times on base (259).[1] He scored 100 runs, hit for a .325 batting average with runners in scoring position, and 4 first inning leadoff home runs.[18]
Starting on May 5, 2007, and ending on June 2, 2007, Youkilis had a career-high 23-game hitting streak in which he hit .426 (43-101) with 13 doubles, 6 HRs, 21 RBIs, and a .468 OBP.[19] At one point during the hitting streak, he had 9 straight games with at least 2 hits (tying a Red Sox record set by Jim Rice in 1978), and became the first Red Sox hitter since Trot Nixon to hit an inside-the-park home run.[20] During the hitting streak, on May 20, he hit what would be the shortest homer by a Sox player during the season—a 321-foot homer around the Pesky Pole. The home run would not have cleared the fence at any of the other 29 ballparks in baseball.[21] Although the hit streak ended on June 2, he did walk 3 times in an 11-6 win over the Yankees.
In 2007, Youkilis was 6th in the AL with 15 hit by pitch (HBP). On June 1, Youkilis was struck on his helmet by a 94 mph fastball thrown by Yankees pitcher Scott Proctor. Proctor was ejected from the game. On August 30, Yankees pitcher Joba Chamberlain was ejected after throwing a pair of pitches over Youkilis's head. Chamberlain was later suspended two games for his actions. On September 15, Youkilis was struck on the right wrist by a pitch thrown by Yankees pitcher Chien-Ming Wang. Youkilis left the game, and did not play again until September 25.
He was 6th in the league in pitches per plate appearance (4.27). Leading the league with a perfect 1.000 fielding percentage, Youkilis won the 2007 AL Gold Glove award for first basemen.
In the first inning of Game 1 of the ALDS against the Angels he hit his first post-season home run. In the World Series against Colorado he batted 2-for-9 with two doubles (both in Game 1), but had limited opportunities in Games 3 and 4 as David Ortiz played first base in the National League park.
Youkilis was selected the 2007 recipient of the Jackie Jensen Award for spirit and determination by the Boston BBWAA chapter.[1]
[edit] 2008: All Star
In 2007 Youkilis had earned $424,500, the fourth-lowest salary on the club.[22] In February 2008, Youkilis signed a one-year contract for $3 million, avoiding salary arbitration.[23]
In March 2008, his role as the designated player representative of the Red Sox became known during a dispute regarding non-payment of coaches and staff for the Red Sox trip to Japan.[24] The dispute was later resolved.
He was voted a starter at first base on the 2008 AL All Star Team. In 2008, Youkilis was 3rd in the AL in slugging percentage (.569) and sacrifice flies (9), 4th in RBIs (115), extra base hits (76), and OPS (.958); 5th in hit by pitch (12); 6th in batting average (.312) and on-base percentage (.390); 7th in doubles (43); 8th in total bases (306), 10th in at-bats per home run (18.6), and 12th in home runs (29). Youkilis also batted .356 against relief pitchers, .358 with men on base, and .374 with runners in scoring position.[25] He drew seven intentional walks during the 2008 season, the first season he had garnered any, and also led the AL with a .353 batting average after the sixth inning.[26] Youkilis became just the third modern major leaguer (since 1901) ever to bat over .300 with more than 100 RBIs during a season in which he spent at least 30 games at both first and 3rd base; St. Louis' Albert Pujols (2001) and Cleveland's Al Rosen (1954) are the only other players to accomplish the feat.[1]
He was mentioned as a possible MVP candidate by reporters for MLB.com,[27] The Sporting News,[28] The New York Times[29] the San Francisco Chronicle,[30] the Fort Worth Star-Telegram,[31] and the Boston Herald.[32] Youkilis ultimately finished third in the balloting, while his teammate Dustin Pedroia won.[33]
In the ALCS Game 5 vs. the Tampa Bay Rays, the Red Sox were down by seven runs in the bottom of the seventh inning. Youkilis scored the winning run for the Red Sox to complete the second-largest comeback in MLB postseason history. Before Game 4 of the 2008 World Series, he was named the winner of the AL Hank Aaron Award for the best offensive performance of the 2008 season.[34]
[edit] 2009
Youkilis signed a four-year, $41.25 million contract with the Red Sox on January 15, 2009. The deal also included a team option (at $14 million, with a $1.25 million buyout) for 2013.[35] Later that year, he was voted # 36 on the Sporting News' list of the 50 greatest active baseball players, voted on by a panel that included members of the Baseball Hall of Fame.[36]
Youkilis played for Team USA in the 2009 World Baseball Classic, tying for the lead among all WBC players in home runs (3) and runs (9), and tying for second on the team in RBIs (6) and walks (6), through the first two rounds.[37] He had to leave the team with a left ankle sprain, however, before the WBC semifinals.[38]
Youkilis hit a walk off home run against the Yankees April 24, 2009. "He has skills, man," said David Ortiz. "I don't know how he do it. He just do it."[39] He was subsequently placed on the disabled list, but returned to play on May 20.
Through July 1, Youkilis was 2nd in the AL in OBP (.443) and hit by pitch (8), 3rd in OPS (1.031), 4th in slugging percentage (.588), 7th in batting average (.317) and intentional walks (5), and 9th in walks (43), and was batting .381 with runners in scoring position.[40][41] He was also 2nd in the league in batting average on balls in play (.388), 3rd in walk percentage (16.3%), and 6th in line drive percentage (23.0%).[42]
Youkilis was picked to be a reserve on the AL 2009 All Star team by Tampa Bay and AL manager Joe Maddon.[43] Youkilis had been the leading vote-getter to start at first base in the AL All-Star balloting through June 30, with 1,915,303 votes, putting him ahead of the Yankees' Mark Teixeira, who was second at 1,875,256, but was overtaken by Texeira in voting in the last days.[44]
[edit] First basemen's fielding record
On June 25, 2007, Youkilis played in his 120th consecutive game at first base without an error, breaking the prior Red Sox record set in 1921 by Stuffy McInnis.[45] On September 7, he played in his 179th consecutive game at first base without an error, which broke the prior AL record set in 1973 by Mike Hegan.[46]
Youkilis's streak at the end of the regular season was 190 games; while he was charged with an error in the sixth inning of an October 16, 2007, playoff game against the Cleveland Indians, postseason games are not included in the record. Youkilis said, "I’m not worried about making the error. I’m worried about trying to help the team win and trying to get an out any way we can."[47]
On April 2, 2008, on an unassisted game-ending play against the Oakland A's, Youkilis broke the Major League record for most consecutive errorless games by a first baseman, previously held by Steve Garvey, at 194 games.[48] His streak, which started on July 4, 2006, was snapped at 238 games (2,002 fielding attempts) on June 7, 2008 against the Seattle Mariners.[49]
[edit] Moneyball
In 2003, author Michael Lewis's best-selling book Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game was published. The book focuses on Oakland Athletics' General Manager Billy Beane's use of Sabermetrics as a tool in the evaluation of potential prospects. In the book, Lewis discusses then-prospect Youkilis in detail, and refers to him as "Euclis, the Greek God of Walks", a moniker that has stuck. Youkilis is actually not of Greek extraction (see "Jewish heritage", below). The book brought minor leaguer Youkilis his first national recognition.[50][51]
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"I've seen Youkilis in the shower, and I wouldn't call him the Greek god of anything."[52]
—--Red Sox manager Terry Francona, referring to his nickname, the "Greek God of Walks"
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Lewis also revealed that Beane repeatedly tried to trade for Youkilis before Youkilis reached the major-leagues. His attempts were blocked, however, by Beane admirer, and now Red Sox GM, Theo Epstein.
[edit] Religion and community service
[edit] Career highlights as a Jewish baseball player
On August 8, 2005, while playing for the Red Sox, Youkilis took the field in the 9th inning along with Adam Stern and Gabe Kapler, setting a "record" for the most Jewish players on the field at one time in AL history, and the most in Major League Baseball history since four Jewish players took the field for the New York Giants in a game in 1941.[53]
Youkilis was featured in the 2008 Hank Greenberg 75th Anniversary edition of Jewish Major Leaguers Baseball Cards, published in affiliation with Fleer Trading Cards and the American Jewish Historical Society, commemorating the Jewish Major Leaguers from 1871 through 2008.[54] He joined, among other Jewish major leaguers, Ryan Braun, Brad Ausmus, Ian Kinsler, Brian Horwitz, Gabe Kapler, Jason Marquis, Jason Hirsh, John Grabow, Craig Breslow, and Scott Schoeneweis. Youkilis was one of three Jewish players in the 2008 All-Star Game, joining Braun and Kinsler, and one of three Jewish players on the Team USA 2009 World Baseball Classic team, joining Braun and Grabow.[55][56] Kinsler says that "Youkilis always says something to me on the bases. 'Happy Passover,' he'll throw something at me."[57]
Youkilis was named the Jewish MVP for 2008, beating out fellow all-stars Braun and Kinsler.[58] Through April 25, 2009, his .294 batting average placed him 8th on the all-time list (directly ahead of Ron Blomberg, and behind Kinsler) for batting average by Jewish major leaguers, and his 71 home runs placed him 10th on the all-time list (directly ahead of Art Shamsky and Lou Boudreau, and behind Braun).[59]
[edit] Philanthropy
Kevin Youkilis Hits for Kids is a charitable organization established by Youkilis in 2007. Youkilis's foundation focuses on raising support and awareness for the health, advocacy, safety, and medical healing of children across Massachusetts, in his hometown of Cincinnati, and beyond. Rallying the support of volunteers, local business, and the heart of Red Sox Nation, Kevin Youkilis Hits for Kids teams with existing, community-based children's charities and medical research efforts that lack sufficient funding and awareness. One organization that Hits for Kids works with is the Joslin Diabetes Center's Pediatric Health Services.[60]
"In my religion, the Jewish religion, that's one of the biggest things that's taught, is giving a mitzvah, forming a mitzvah", said Youkilis. "I was always taught as a kid giving to charity. You're supposed to give a good amount of charity each and every year.... It's just a great thing when you can make a kid smile that's going through some hard times in life ... I wish more people, not just athletes, would give people just a little bit of their time. It doesn't take much ... It can make a huge difference."[61]
After the first game of the ALDS, Youkilis re-shaved his head for good luck in a sign of solidarity with cancer patient Mitt Campbell. Following the team's 2007 World Series victory, Youkilis shaved his goatee for a $5,000 donation by Gillette to his foundation.[62]
All profits from his charity wine "SauvignYoouuk Blanc", released in 2008, support Hits for Kids.[63]
[edit] Family
In November 2008, Youkilis married Enza Sambataro in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico. The ceremony was attended by Red Sox teammates Mike Lowell, David Ortiz, and Dustin Pedroia. Sambataro, a Newton, Massachusetts native, is the CEO of Youkilis's charity Hits for Kids.[64][65]
[edit] Awards and distinctions[1]
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[edit] Statistics[1]
| Year | Team | G | AB | R | H | 2B | 3B | HR | RBI | SB | BB | SO | BA | OBP | SLG |
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| 2004 | BOS | 74 | 208 | 38 | 54 | 11 | 0 | 7 | 35 | 0 | 33 | 45 | .260 | .367 | .413 |
| 2005 | BOS | 44 | 79 | 11 | 22 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 0 | 14 | 19 | .278 | .400 | .405 |
| 2006 | BOS | 147 | 569 | 100 | 159 | 42 | 2 | 13 | 72 | 5 | 91 | 120 | .279 | .381 | .429 |
| 2007 | BOS | 145 | 525 | 85 | 152 | 35 | 2 | 16 | 83 | 4 | 77 | 105 | .288 | .390 | .453 |
| 2008 | BOS | 145 | 538 | 91 | 168 | 43 | 4 | 29 | 115 | 3 | 62 | 108 | .312 | .390 | .569 |
| Total | 5 years | 553 | 1,922 | 325 | 555 | 138 | 8 | 66 | 314 | 12 | 277 | 397 | .289 | .385 | .472 |
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- Milk and Honey movie excerpt. The Providence Journal, 1/17/09
- Kevin Youkilis Hits for Kids
- "Warming up for the Jewish Boys of Summer," 3/5/08
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AL Rookie of the Month May 2004 |
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| Preceded by Mark Teixeira |
AL Gold Glove (First Base) 2007 |
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| Preceded by David Ortiz |
AL All Star First Baseman Starter 2008 |
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| Preceded by Alex Rodriguez |
AL Hank Aaron Award 2008 |
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