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Rusty Greer

Rusty Greer
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Left fielder
Born: (1969-01-21) January 21, 1969 (age 48)
Fort Rucker, Alabama
Batted: Left Threw: Left
MLB debut
May 16, 1994, for the Texas Rangers
Last MLB appearance
July 11, 2002, for the Texas Rangers
MLB statistics
Batting average .305
Home runs 119
Runs batted in 614
Teams
Career highlights and awards

Thurman Clyde "Rusty" Greer III (born January 21, 1969 in Fort Rucker, Alabama) is a former Major League Baseball outfielder for the Texas Rangers. He most recently worked for Texas Wesleyan University serving as the Assistant Head Coach under former teammate Mike Jeffcoat.

Greer attended high school in Albertville, Alabama before playing college baseball at the University of Montevallo. (Montevallo was the only college interested in Greer prior to a senior-year all-star game where he finally drew attention from larger schools; however, he chose to remain at Montevallo since they initially offered him a scholarship.) While at Montevallo, Greer was a Resident Assistant in Napier Hall. The Rangers made him their tenth-round pick (279th overall) in the 1990 amateur draft, and he spent the rest of the season playing for their rookie-level minor league club in Butte, Montana. He would spend all fifteen years of his professional baseball career in the Rangers organization, a feat that had become a rarity among professional ballplayers thanks to free agency.

At Butte, he batted .345 with an OPS of 1.032, which earned him a promotion to the Class A Florida State League the following season. He finished 1991 with the Class AA Tulsa Drillers in the Texas League; he stayed with Tulsa through 1992 and most of 1993, before being called up to the Class AAA Oklahoma City 89ers for eight games. He also started the 1994 season with the 89ers, batting .315 in 31 games, when he earned a call-up to the Rangers. Rusty currently can be heard as a weekly guest on B.A.D. radio (The Bob and Dan Show) which airs 12:00-3:00 p.m. on 1310/96.7 KTCK "The Ticket" in Dallas, Tx. talking Texas Rangers baseball.


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