Steve Finley
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Finley with the San Francisco Giants
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| Center fielder | |||
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Born: March 12, 1965 Union City, Tennessee |
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| MLB debut | |||
| April 3, 1989, for the Baltimore Orioles | |||
| Last MLB appearance | |||
| June 3, 2007, for the Colorado Rockies | |||
| MLB statistics | |||
| Batting average | .271 | ||
| Hits | 2,548 | ||
| Home runs | 304 | ||
| Runs batted in | 1,167 | ||
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Steven Allen Finley (born March 12, 1965) is an American former Major League Baseball outfielder.
He was a two-time All-Star (1997, 2000), World Series champion (2001 over the New York Yankees), and five-time Gold Glove Award winner (1995, 1996, 1999, 2000, 2004).
Finley grew up in Paducah, Kentucky, he attended Paducah Tilghman High School and Southern Illinois University, where he earned a degree in physiology and played for the baseball team from 1984 to 1987.
In 1986, Finley was drafted by the Atlanta Braves in the 11th round of the draft, but did not sign, instead choosing to remain at SIU, where he was a two-time All-Missouri Valley Conference performer and a third-team All-American in 1986, and named the team's Most Valuable Player in 1987. He is a member of the Saluki Baseball Hall of Fame.
He was a member of the 1986 Team USA squad that won a bronze medal during international competition in the Netherlands.
In 1987, he was drafted by the Baltimore Orioles in the 13th round of the draft, and did sign.
In 919 at bats in the minor leagues, Finley batted .309 and stole 68 bases.
On August 29, 2009, Finley was inducted into the Rochester Red Wings Hall of Fame.
In January 1991, he was traded by the Orioles with Pete Harnisch and Curt Schilling to the Houston Astros for Glenn Davis. That year he was third in the league in triples (10), sixth in hits (170), ninth in stolen bases (34), and tenth in sacrifice hits (10). His 13 outfield assists tied Barry Bonds and Paul O'Neill for third in the league.
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