Charlie Culberson | |||
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![]() Culberson with the Colorado Rockies in 2013
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Los Angeles Dodgers – No. 6 | |||
Infielder | |||
Born: Rome, Georgia |
April 10, 1989 |||
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MLB debut | |||
May 13, 2012, for the San Francisco Giants | |||
MLB statistics (through 2016 season) |
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Batting average | .231 | ||
Home runs | 6 | ||
Runs batted in | 44 | ||
Teams | |||
Charles Edward "Charlie" Culberson (born April 10, 1989) is an American professional baseball infielder for the Los Angeles Dodgers of Major League Baseball (MLB). He has also played in MLB for the San Francisco Giants and Colorado Rockies.
The San Francisco Giants drafted Culberson in the first round (51st overall) in the 2007 Major League Baseball Draft out of Calhoun High School in Calhoun, Georgia. They added him to the 40 man roster to protect him from the Rule 5 draft after the 2011 season, in which he batted .259 with 10 home runs and 56 runs batted in for the Richmond Flying Squirrels of the Double-A Eastern League. He was rated the seventh best second base prospect prior to the 2012 season.
After beginning the 2012 season with the Fresno Grizzlies of the Class AAA Pacific Coast League, the Giants promoted Culberson to the big league club on May 13, 2012. He made his MLB debut that day and collected his first major league base hit against Arizona Diamondbacks starter Joe Saunders.
On July 27, 2012, Culberson was traded to the Colorado Rockies for Marco Scutaro. He spent the rest of the 2012 season with the Colorado Springs Sky Sox, the Rockies' AAA affiliate, and continued to play for them in 2013. In 97 games for the Sky Sox, he hit .310/.338/.524 with 14 HR, 64 RBI and 8 3B.