Lenny Harris
| Lenny Harris | |||
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Harris as Nationals hitting coach
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| Third baseman / Outfielder / Second baseman | |||
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Born: October 28, 1964 Miami, Florida |
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| MLB debut | |||
| September 7, 1988, for the Cincinnati Reds | |||
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| October 1, 2005, for the Florida Marlins | |||
| MLB statistics | |||
| Batting average | .269 | ||
| Home runs | 37 | ||
| Runs batted in | 369 | ||
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Leonard Anthony Harris (born October 28, 1964) is a former Major League Baseball utility infielder. Listed at 5' 10", 195 lb., Harris batted left-handed and threw right-handed. He is best known for holding the record for the most pinch hits in a Major League career, with 212.
Harris was the Cincinnati Reds' fifth-round pick in the 1983 amateur draft. He made his major league debut with the Reds in 1988. He batted .372 in 16 games with Cincinnati in 1988. He played 61 games with the Reds in 1989; his batting average that year with the Reds was .223, and he was traded to the Los Angeles Dodgers along with Kal Daniels for Tim Leary and Mariano Duncan.
Harris continued playing with the Dodgers through the 1993 season, playing in at least 107 games each season. 1993 was also the year when he started doing more pinch hitting. He never hit more than 3 home runs in any given year until 1996, but while with the Dodgers he did have several good seasons at the plate; he batted .304 in 1990 and .287 in 1991.
He became a free agent after the 1993 season, at which point he re-signed with Cincinnati, where he continued to play until he was traded to the New York Mets in 1998. Harris pitched once for the Reds, on June 1, 1998. It was the first time a Reds position player had been used as a pitcher in ten years.
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