Fred Lewis | |||
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Lewis with the Hiroshima Toyo Carp
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Southern Maryland Blue Crabs – No. 91 | |||
Outfielder | |||
Born: Hattiesburg, Mississippi |
December 9, 1980 |||
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Professional debut | |||
MLB: September 1, 2006, for the San Francisco Giants | |||
NPB: March 29, 2013, for the Hiroshima Toyo Carp | |||
Last appearance | |||
MLB: October 2, 2012, for the New York Mets | |||
NPB: August 16, 2013, for the Hiroshima Toyo Carp | |||
MLB statistics (through 2012 season) |
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Batting average | .266 | ||
Home runs | 27 | ||
Runs batted in | 136 | ||
Stolen bases | 53 | ||
NPB statistics | |||
Batting average | .268 | ||
Home runs | 4 | ||
Runs batted in | 20 | ||
Stolen bases | 12 | ||
Teams | |||
Frederick Deshaun Lewis (born December 9, 1980) is an American professional baseball outfielder, for the Southern Maryland Blue Crabs of the Atlantic League of Professional Baseball. He made his debut on September 1, 2006, with the San Francisco Giants. He is the cousin of former Major League outfielder Matt Lawton. He lived in Chatham, New Jersey for a brief time before moving to Toronto.
Lewis graduated from Stone High School in Wiggins, Mississippi in 1999, where he was a three sport star in basketball, football, and baseball. He went on to attend Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College, where he played both football and baseball.
After graduating in 2001, he was drafted in the 20th round (585th overall) by the Montreal Expos, but opted not to sign, instead attending Southern University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana to play baseball. While attending Southern University, Lewis flipped a truck he was driving on a rainy night, and three of the occupants in the car were killed.
Lewis was drafted in the second round (66th overall), and was sent to the short season-A Salem-Keizer Volcanoes. While there, earned Northwest League All-Star honors, leading the league with a .322 batting average, while finishing 5th for both hits (77) and on-base percentage(.396). Lewis also was named co-Player of Month for July, along with Dan Ortmeier and Greg Bruso.