Chris Taylor (baseball)

Chris Taylor
Taylor with the Seattle Mariners
Los Angeles Dodgers – No. 3
Shortstop
Born: (1990-08-29) August 29, 1990 (age 26) Virginia Beach, Virginia
Bats: Right Throws: Right
MLB debut
July 24, 2014, for the Seattle Mariners
MLB statistics (through 2016 season)
Batting average	.234
Home runs	1
Runs batted in	17
Teams
Seattle Mariners (2014–2016) Los Angeles Dodgers (2016–present)

Christopher Armand Taylor Jr. (born August 29, 1990) is an American professional baseball shortstop for the Los Angeles Dodgers of Major League Baseball (MLB). Prior to playing professionally, he attended the University of Virginia, and played college baseball for the Virginia Cavaliers. Taylor made his MLB debut with the Seattle Mariners on July 24, 2014.

Taylor attended Great Neck Middle School in Virginia Beach, Virginia, where he was on the wrestling team, and won a city wrestling championship. When he attended Frank W. Cox High School, also in Virginia Beach, he stopped wrestling to focus on baseball. He was named the All-Tidewater region player of the year in 2009.

Taylor was recruited to play college baseball by the University of Virginia and the College of William & Mary. He chose to attend Virginia, and played college baseball for the Virginia Cavaliers baseball team, competing in the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC). In his freshman year, Taylor played sparingly as Tyler Cannon, an All-ACC shortstop, received most of the playing time. In the summer of 2010, he played for the Newport Gulls of the NECBL. In his sophomore year, Stephen Bruno was named the Cavaliers' starting shortstop at the beginning of the season, and Taylor began the year as the teams' right fielder. Taylor became the starting shortstop when Bruno suffered a hamstring injury, and retained the job after Bruno recovered. In 2011, he hit a two-out, bases-loaded single to score the tying and winning runs in the decisive game of the Charlottesville Super Regional against UC Irvine and send the Cavaliers to the College World Series.