Danny Espinosa

Espinosa with the Washington Nationals

Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim – No. 3

Shortstop / Second baseman

Born: April 25, 1987 (age 29)
Santa Ana, California

Bats: Switch

Throws: Right

MLB debut

September 1, 2010, for the Washington Nationals

MLB statistics
(through 2016 season)

.226

285

Teams

Daniel Richard Espinosa (born April 25, 1987) is an Mexican American professional baseball infielder for the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim of Major League Baseball (MLB). He played in MLB for the Washington Nationals from 2010 to 2016.

Espinosa attended Mater Dei High School in Santa Ana, California. He then enrolled at California State University, Long Beach, to play college baseball for the Long Beach State Dirtbags. He played shortstop and batted .303 with 11 home runs and 98 runs batted in (RBIs) in his three-year career. As a freshman, he was the Big West Conference Freshman of the Year.

The Washington Nationals selected Espinosa in the third round of the 2008 Major League Baseball draft. Espinosa spent the rest of the 2008 summer with the Vermont Lake Monsters of the Class A-Short Season New York-Penn League, where he batted .328. The following year he was promoted to the Potomac Nationals of the Class A-Advanced Carolina League], and hit .264 with a .375 on-base percentage while hitting 18 home runs with 72 RBIs and 29 steals, and was a High-A and Carolina League All Star. He began 2010 with the Harrisburg Senators of the Class AA Eastern League, hitting .262 with 18 home runs, before being promoted to the Syracuse Chiefs of the Class AAA International League. With Syracuse, he hit .295 with four home runs and was just the second player in all of organized baseball to reach 20 home runs and 20 stolen bases in 2010. At Syracuse, Espinosa, who had played shortstop for his college and minor league career, was shifted to second base, since Ian Desmond was already playing shortstop for the Nationals.