Jeremy Hazelbaker | |||
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Arizona Diamondbacks – No. 41 | |||
Outfielder | |||
Born: Muncie, Indiana |
August 14, 1987 |||
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MLB debut | |||
April 3, 2016, for the St. Louis Cardinals | |||
MLB statistics (through 2016 season) |
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Batting average | .235 | ||
Home runs | 12 | ||
Runs batted in | 28 | ||
Stolen bases | 5 | ||
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Jeremy Philip Hazelbaker (born August 14, 1987) is an American professional baseball outfielder for the Arizona Diamondbacks of Major League Baseball (MLB). He made his major league debut with the St. Louis Cardinals on April 3, 2016. He had previously played in the minor leagues in the Boston Red Sox and Los Angeles Dodgers organizations.
Hazelbaker was selected by the Boston Red Sox in the fourth round of the 2009 MLB Draft out of Ball State University. He opened 2009 with the Lowell Spinners, before being promoted to the Greenville Drive (2009–10), Salem Red Sox (2011), Portland Sea Dogs (2011–12) and Pawtucket Red Sox (2012). He batted a combined .259/.345/.434 with 49 home runs and 157 stolen bases in 409 games.
Hazelbaker returned to Pawtucket in 2013. He posted a .257/.313/3.74 line with 11 homers and 54 RBIs in 121 games, including 62 runs scored, 37 stolen bases and 26 extra bases.
On October 23, 2013, he was traded to the Los Angeles Dodgers in exchange for Alex Castellanos. He was assigned to the AA Chattanooga Lookouts. In 2014, he was selected to the mid-season Southern League All-Star game. In 87 games with the Lookouts (and another 22 with the AAA Albuquerque Isotopes, he hit .244. He was assigned to the AA Tulsa Drillers of the Texas League to start the 2015 season. He hit .245 in 14 games and was released on May 1, 2015.