Prince Fielder
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Fielder with the Texas Rangers
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| Texas Rangers – No. 84 | |||
| First baseman / Designated hitter | |||
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Born: May 9, 1984 Ontario, California |
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| MLB debut | |||
| June 13, 2005, for the Milwaukee Brewers | |||
| MLB statistics (through 2016 season) |
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| Batting average | .283 | ||
| Hits | 1,645 | ||
| Home runs | 319 | ||
| Runs batted in | 1,028 | ||
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Prince Semien Fielder (born May 9, 1984) is an American professional baseball first baseman and designated hitter for the Texas Rangers of Major League Baseball (MLB). He has also played for the Milwaukee Brewers and Detroit Tigers. He was selected in the first round of the 2002 Major League Baseball draft by the Brewers out of Eau Gallie High School in Melbourne, Florida, and spent the first seven years of his MLB career with the Brewers before signing with the Detroit Tigers in January 2012. In November 2013, he was traded to the Rangers, where he ended his playing career due to injury.
Fielder is a six-time All-Star and was previously the iron man leader for consecutive games played with 547 consecutive games. The streak ended in May 2014 when Fielder underwent season-ending neck surgery. He holds the Brewers' team record for home runs in a season, and is the league's youngest player to hit 50 home runs in a season. He became the first Brewer to win the Home Run Derby, defeating Nelson Cruz in the final round of the 2009 derby. He also won the 2012 derby, joining Ken Griffey, Jr. and Yoenis Céspedes as the only players to win more than one derby and becoming the first player to win the Derby as both an American League and a National League All-Star.
On August 10, 2016, Fielder announced that he would be unable to continue his playing career after undergoing a second neck surgery in three years. Although Fielder is not officially retired, he will spend the remaining four years of his contract on the 60-day disabled list. He ended his career with 319 home runs, the same number as his father, Cecil Fielder. Prince and Cecil Fielder are also the only father-son combination to each hit 50 MLB home runs in a season.
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