Taylor Teagarden
| Taylor Teagarden | |
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| Baltimore Orioles – No. 3 | |
| Catcher | |
| Born: December 21, 1983 Dallas, Texas |
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| Bats: Right | Throws: Right |
| MLB debut | |
| July 18, 2008 for the Texas Rangers | |
| Career statistics (through 2011 season) |
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| Batting average | .220 |
| Home runs | 16 |
| Runs batted in | 49 |
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| Medal record | ||
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| Men's Baseball | ||
Competitor for  United States |
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| Olympic Games | ||
| Bronze | 2008 Beijing | National team |
| World University Championship | ||
| Gold | 2004 Tainan | National team |
Taylor Hill Teagarden (born December 21, 1983, in Dallas, Texas) is a catcher for the Baltimore Orioles.
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[edit] Early life
Teagarden graduated from Creekview High School in Carrollton, Texas.
Teagarden attended the University of Texas at Austin where he played the position of catcher on the Texas Longhorns baseball team. Most notably, Teagarden played on the Longhorns 2005 NCAA Championship team, which won the College World Series.
[edit] Major league career
[edit] Texas Rangers
He was drafted in the third round of the 2005 Major League Baseball Draft by the Texas Rangers. His first major league hit (a solo home run) happened on July 20, 2008. It came off Minnesota Twins pitcher Scott Baker in the top of the 6th, who, until then, had not given up a hit all game. It would end up being the only run of the game in a Rangers 1–0 victory.
Sent to Double-A early in the 2010 season, Teagarden was called back up to the Majors in July 2010 due to the injuries of catcher Matt Treanor. While at Double-A Frisco, he finished fourth in the fan vote for A.L. catcher for the 2010 All-Star game with 631,674 votes, above Major League catchers John Buck of the Blue Jays, Mike Napoli of the Angels and A.J. Pierzynski of the White Sox.[1] Teagarden hit three home runs in his first five games after his July recall from the minors.
[edit] Baltimore Orioles
On December 1, he was traded to the Baltimore Orioles for minor-league pitcher Randy Henry and a player to be named later.
[edit] International career
Teagarden was named to the 2008 USA Olympic Team.[2]
[edit] References
- ^ Teagarden amazed at All-Star vote tally
- ^ "USA Baseball announces 2008 U.S. Olympic Baseball Team". MLB.com. July 16, 2008. http://mlb.mlb.com/news/press_releases/press_release.jsp?ymd=20080716&content_id=3142921&vkey=pr_mlb&fext=.jsp&c_id=mlb. Retrieved July 27, 2008.
[edit] External links
- Career statistics and player information from MLB, or ESPN, or Baseball-Reference, or Fangraphs, or The Baseball Cube, or Baseball-Reference (Minors)
- 1983 births
- Living people
- Texas Rangers players
- Baseball players at the 2008 Summer Olympics
- Baseball players from Texas
- Major League Baseball catchers
- Olympic baseball players of the United States
- Olympic bronze medalists for the United States
- People from Dallas, Texas
- Texas Longhorns baseball players
- Spokane Indians players
- Arizona League Rangers players
- Frisco RoughRiders players
- Bakersfield Blaze players
- Oklahoma RedHawks players
- Oklahoma City RedHawks players
- Round Rock Express players
- Olympic medalists in baseball
