Josh Vitters
| Josh Vitters | |||
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Vitters with the Peoria Chiefs
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| Bridgeport Bluefish – No. 17 | |||
| Third baseman/ Left fielder | |||
| Born: August 27, 1989 Anaheim, California |
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| MLB debut | |||
| August 5, 2012, for the Chicago Cubs | |||
| MLB statistics (through 2014 season) |
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| Batting average | .121 | ||
| Home runs | 2 | ||
| Runs batted in | 5 | ||
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Joshua Warren Vitters (born August 27, 1989) is an American professional baseball third baseman for the Bridgeport Bluefish of the Atlantic League of Professional Baseball.
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Amateur Career
Vitters was an AFLAC All-American Prep Third Baseman for Cypress High School in Cypress, California.[1][2] He was also named the Gatorade Baseball Player of the Year for California in 2007.[2] Vitters committed to attend Arizona State University on a scholarship, to play for the Arizona State Sun Devils baseball team.[3]
Professional Career
Draft and Minors
The Chicago Cubs drafted Vitters with the third overall selection of the 2007 Major League Baseball Draft.[2][4][5][6] He made his professional debut with the Rookie-level Arizona Cubs of the Arizona League.[7] On 2014 April 3, he hit his first home run for the Iowa Cubs in a 10-2 loss to the Memphis Redbirds.[8]
Vitters was selected to appear in the 2009 All-Star Futures Game.[9] In mid-2009, the Cubs promoted Vitters from the Peoria Chiefs of the Class A Midwest League to the Daytona Cubs of the Class A-Advanced Florida State League.[9] He spent the 2010 season with Daytona and the Tennessee Smokies of the Class AA Southern League.[10]
Major league play
The Cubs promoted Vitters and fellow prospect Brett Jackson from the Iowa Cubs of the Class AAA Pacific Coast League on August 5, 2012.[11] He made his Major League debut later that day as a pinch hitter in the seventh inning against the Los Angeles Dodgers [12] Vitters' first MLB hit was a double against the San Diego Padres August 7, 2012, pinch hitting for pitcher Jeff Beliveau in the seventh inning, scoring both Steve Clevenger and Darwin Barney. His first major league home run was August 20, 2012 in the fifth inning against Mark Rogers of the Milwaukee Brewers.[13]
Bridgeport Bluefish
On March 15, 2016, Vitters signed with the Bridgeport Bluefish of the Atlantic League of Professional Baseball.
Personal
Josh's brother, Christian, played minor league baseball.[3]
References
- ↑ AFLAC All American, Josh Vitters - 2007 Archived October 22, 2006 at the Wayback Machine
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- ↑ Draft Report for Josh Vitters
- ↑ 2007 MLB.com Draft Tracker
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External links
- Career statistics and player information from MLB, or ESPN, or Baseball Reference, or Fangraphs, or Baseball Reference (Minors), or Rotoworld report
- Pages using baseballstats with unknown parameters
- 1989 births
- Living people
- All-Star Futures Game players
- Arizona League Cubs players
- Baseball players from California
- Boise Hawks players
- Chicago Cubs players
- Daytona Cubs players
- Iowa Cubs players
- Leones del Caracas players
- Mesa Solar Sox players
- Peoria Chiefs players
- Sportspeople from Anaheim, California
- Tennessee Smokies players
- Bridgeport Bluefish players
