Ryan Flaherty
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Flaherty with the Baltimore Orioles
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| Baltimore Orioles – No. 3 | |||
| Utility player | |||
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Born: July 27, 1986 Portland, Maine |
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| MLB debut | |||
| April 7, 2012, for the Baltimore Orioles | |||
| MLB statistics (through 2016 season) |
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| Batting average | .216 | ||
| Home runs | 35 | ||
| Runs batted in | 124 | ||
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Ryan Edward Flaherty (born July 27, 1986) is an American professional baseball player for the Baltimore Orioles of Major League Baseball (MLB). Flaherty has also filled in at third base, first base, and shortstop for the Orioles.
He is the son of Edward and Deborah Flaherty. Edward was a star at the University of Maine and is now the head coach at the University of Southern Maine, a division III school in Portland. He has been there for 28 years. As a kid, Ryan would accompany his father to Southern Maine practices, and field grounders. His younger brother, Regan was a draft pick of the Seattle Mariners. Flaherty graduated from Deering High School in 2005. In 2004, he led Nova Seafood to the American Legion World Series Championship, as well as winning the Telegram League batting title. He was a 2005 American Baseball Coaches Association Preseason All-American, also winning Maine's Mr. Baseball award. He was also named Maine Gatorade High School Player of the Year as a senior at Deering High School. Flaherty lettered in baseball, basketball, captained the football team and was a finalist for the Fitzpatrick Trophy, which is given to Maine's best football player.
Ranked the 141st-best professional prospect by Baseball America, he chose to attend Vanderbilt University, where he played college baseball for the Commodores in the Southeastern Conference (SEC) of the National Collegiate Athletic Association's Division I alongside fellow Major League Players; David Price and Pedro Alvarez who became a teammate on the Baltimore Orioles in 2016.
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