Ed Hearn (catcher)
| Ed Hearn | |||
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| Catcher | |||
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Born: August 23, 1960 Stuart, Florida |
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| MLB debut | |||
| May 17, 1986, for the New York Mets | |||
| Last MLB appearance | |||
| October 2, 1988, for the Kansas City Royals | |||
| MLB statistics | |||
| Batting average | .263 | ||
| Home Runs | 4 | ||
| Runs batted in | 14 | ||
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Edward John Hearn (born August 23, 1960 in Stuart, Florida) is a former Major League Baseball backup catcher who came up with the New York Mets during their 1986 World Series championship season. He batted and threw right-handed.
Hearn was drafted by the Philadelphia Phillies in the fourth round of the 1978 Major League Baseball Draft. After four seasons in their organization in which he failed to reach higher than the double A level, he was released by the Phillies on 7 January 1983. However, he was soon signed as a minor league free agent by the New York Mets.
Hearn spent most of 1983 with the Single-A Lynchburg Mets before being promoted to Double-A Jackson, batting .274 with five home runs and 49 RBI between the two clubs. In 1984, he led the Jackson with a .312 batting average and tied for second with eleven home runs. He earned his promotion to Triple-A in 1985, spending the whole season with the International League's Tidewater Tides.
Hearn began the 1986 season in Tidewater when Barry Lyons won the back-up catcher job out of Spring training. Manager Davey Johnson, however, reversed that decision in early May, and Hearn made his major league debut with the Mets on May 17 against the Los Angeles Dodgers at Dodger Stadium. He went two for three with a single and a double off Bob Welch, and also caught Greg Brock, who had stolen a base off him in the third inning, stealing in the seventh.
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