Nick Ahmed
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Ahmed with the Arizona Diamondbacks in 2015
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| Arizona Diamondbacks – No. 13 | |||
| Shortstop | |||
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Born: March 15, 1990 East Longmeadow, Massachusetts |
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| MLB debut | |||
| June 29, 2014, for the Arizona Diamondbacks | |||
| MLB statistics (through May 13, 2017) |
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| Batting average | .225 | ||
| Home runs | 18 | ||
| Runs batted in | 69 | ||
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Nicholas Mark Ahmed (born March 15, 1990) is an American professional baseball shortstop for the Arizona Diamondbacks of Major League Baseball (MLB).
Ahmed attended East Longmeadow High School in East Longmeadow, Massachusetts, where he played as a pitcher, was a member of the National Honor Society, and also played basketball. At East Longmeadow, he earned numerous honors and posted a career record of 21-3 as a pitcher. He then enrolled at the University of Connecticut, where he majored in sport management and played shortstop and pitcher for the Connecticut Huskies baseball team. As a freshman, he batted .288 and .300 as a sophomore, and played for the Bourne Braves of the Cape Cod Baseball League during the summer of his sophomore year. As a junior, Ahmed hit .326.
The Atlanta Braves drafted Ahmed in the second round of the 2011 Major League Baseball Draft, 85th overall. He played in minor league baseball for the Lynchburg Hillcats in 2012, and was named fastest baserunner in the league by Baseball America. After the 2012 season, the Braves traded Ahmed, Martin Prado, Randall Delgado, Zeke Spruill, and Brandon Drury to the Diamondbacks for Justin Upton and Chris Johnson.
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