Buck Coats
Buck Coats | |||||||||||||||
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Outfielder | |||||||||||||||
Born: Fort Benning, Georgia | June 9, 1982|||||||||||||||
Batted: Left Threw: Right | |||||||||||||||
MLB debut | |||||||||||||||
August 22, 2006, for the Chicago Cubs | |||||||||||||||
Last appearance | |||||||||||||||
April 11, 2008, for the Toronto Blue Jays | |||||||||||||||
Career statistics | |||||||||||||||
Batting average | .193 | ||||||||||||||
Home runs | 1 | ||||||||||||||
Runs batted in | 3 | ||||||||||||||
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Medals
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Buck Coats (born June 9, 1982) is a former Major League Baseball (MLB) outfielder.
Career
Coats was drafted in the 2000 MLB Draft in the 18th round by the Chicago Cubs.
Coats made his Major League debut for the Chicago Cubs on August 22, 2006 against the Philadelphia Phillies. After the 2006 season, he finished batting .167 with one home run and one RBI.
Coats was then traded to the Reds for a player to be named later. Buck finished hitting .206 and two RBIs, a personal best. The Reds then dealt him to the Toronto Blue Jays for right-handed pitcher Justin James.
Coats only played 8 games for the Toronto Blue Jays before being sent back down to the minors. He finished the season batting .200, with one hit, and a single stolen base.
Coats signed a minor league contract with the Kansas City Royals on November 25, 2009. Coats was traded to the Chicago White Sox organization and assigned to the AA Birmingham Barons on May 4, 2010. Coats hit .338, 2 home runs and 8 RBI in 68 at-bats with the Barons before being promoted to triple A Charlotte Knights.
Coats was named co-hitting coach with Alexis Gomez for Los Angeles Angels Rookie minor league rookie team Orem for 2015 season
External links
- Career statistics and player information from Baseball Reference, or Baseball Reference (Minors)
- Yahoo bio
- 1982 births
- Living people
- American expatriate baseball players in Canada
- Arizona League Cubs players
- Baseball coaches from Georgia (U.S. state)
- Baseball players from Georgia (U.S. state)
- Birmingham Barons players
- Charlotte Knights players
- Chicago Cubs players
- Cincinnati Reds players
- Daytona Cubs players
- Harrisburg Senators players
- Iowa Cubs players
- Lansing Lugnuts players
- Las Vegas 51s players
- Los Angeles Angels scouts
- Louisville Bats players
- Major League Baseball center fielders
- Mesa Solar Sox players
- Minor league baseball coaches
- Naranjeros de Hermosillo players
- Omaha Royals players
- Syracuse Chiefs players
- Tigres de Aragua players
- Toronto Blue Jays players
- West Tennessee Diamond Jaxx players