Chris Sabo

Chris Sabo in 2005 as a coach for the Dayton Dragons

Third baseman

Born: January 19, 1962 (age 55)
Detroit, Michigan

Batted: Right

Threw: Right

MLB debut

April 4, 1988, for the Cincinnati Reds

Last MLB appearance

September 2, 1996, for the Cincinnati Reds

MLB statistics

Batting average

.268

Home runs

116

Runs batted in

426

Teams

Career highlights and awards

Christopher Andrew "Chris" Sabo (born January 19, 1962) is a former third baseman in Major League Baseball who played for the Cincinnati Reds (1988–93, 1996), Baltimore Orioles (1994), Chicago White Sox (1995) and St. Louis Cardinals (1995). At 6'0" and 180 lb (82 kg), he batted and threw right-handed.

Sabo was born in Detroit, Michigan, the son of a plumber and a waitress. The Sabos lived in Rosedale Park, three blocks from the 1968 Championship Detroit Tiger Willie Horton.

Sabo attended Detroit Catholic Central High School. In high school, he excelled as both a hockey goalie and a golfer in addition to being one of the area's best baseball players, twice earning all-state honors. Sabo played hockey on two national championship 17-and-under teams and, before enrolling at Michigan, also played hockey as a goaltender in one game in the Ontario Junior Hockey League for the Niagara Falls Flyers in the 1979–80 season. As a senior, he was torn between pursuing a hockey career or a baseball career but ultimately chose baseball and a scholarship to the University of Michigan despite being drafted in the 1980 Major League Baseball Draft by the Montreal Expos.

A third baseman, Sabo was a key component on a strong Michigan team that finished third in the College World Series in 1983, a season in which Sabo was joined as a starting infielder by future Reds teammate and Baseball Hall of Famer Barry Larkin. That season, Sabo earned first-team All-American honors from The Sporting News and Baseball America.

Sabo was selected by the Cincinnati Reds in the second round of the 1983 Major League Baseball Draft.

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