- Cliff Pennington (baseball)
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Cliff Pennington Oakland Athletics — No. 2 Shortstop Born: June 15, 1984
Corpus Christi, TexasBats: Switch Throws: Right MLB debut August 12, 2008 for the Oakland Athletics Career statistics
(through 2011 Season)Batting average .259 Home runs 18 Runs batted in 134 Teams - Oakland Athletics (2008-present)
Clifton Randoulph Pennington (born June 15, 1984, in Corpus Christi, Texas) is a Major League Baseball infielder for the Oakland Athletics.
Career
Pennington attended Texas A&M University. He played for the Texas A&M Aggies baseball team.
Pennington was drafted in the first round of the 2005 Major League Baseball Draft by the Athletics. On July 31, 2008, he was called up from the Triple-A Sacramento River Cats, and made his major league debut that day going 2-4.
Following the 2009 spring training camp, he was returned to the River Cats.[1]
References
- ^ Oakland's Young Studs Make Roster SI.com, April 4, 2009
External links
- Pennington's official website
- Career statistics and player information from MLB, or ESPN, or Baseball-Reference, or Fangraphs, or The Baseball Cube, or Baseball-Reference (Minors)
Oakland Athletics first-round draft picks 1965: Rick Monday | 1966: Reggie Jackson | 1967: Brian Bickerton | 1968: Pete Broberg | 1969: Don Stanhouse | 1970: Dan Ford | 1971: William Daniels | 1972: Chet Lemon | 1973: Randy Scarbery | 1974: Jerry Johnson | 1975: Bruce Robinson | 1976: Thomas Sullivan | 1977: Craig Harris | 1978: Mike Morgan, Tim Conroy | 1979: Juan Bustabad, Mike Stenhouse | 1980: Mike King | 1981: Tim Pyznarski | 1982: No first round pick | 1983: Stan Hilton | 1984: Mark McGwire | 1985: Walt Weiss | 1986: Scott Hemond | 1987: Lee Tinsley | 1988: Stan Royer | 1989: No first round pick | 1990: Todd Van Poppel, Don Peters, David Zancanaro, Kirk Dressendorfer | 1991: Brent Gates, Mike Rossiter | 1992: Benji Grigsby | 1993: John Wasdin, Willie Adams | 1994: Ben Grieve | 1995: Ariel Prieto | 1996: Eric Chavez | 1997: Chris Enochs, Eric DuBose, Nathan Haynes, Denny Wagner | 1998: Mark Mulder | 1999: Barry Zito | 2000: No first round pick | 2001: Bobby Crosby, Jeremy Bonderman, John Rheinecker | 2002: Nick Swisher, Joe Blanton, John McCurdy, Ben Fritz, Jeremy Brown, Stephen Obenchain, Mark Teahen | 2003: Bradley Sullivan, Brian Snyder, Omar Quintanilla | 2004: Richard Robnett, Danny Putnam, Huston Street | 2005: Cliff Pennington, Travis Buck | 2006: No first round pick | 2007: James Simmons, Sean Doolittle, Corey Brown | 2008: Jemile Weeks | 2009: Grant Green | 2010: Michael Choice | 2011: Sonny GrayOakland Athletics current roster Active roster 2 Cliff Pennington | 4 Coco Crisp | 6 Adrian Cardenas | 7 Adam Rosales | 8 Kurt Suzuki | 11 Landon Powell | 12 David DeJesus | 13 Jerry Blevins | 15 Ryan Sweeney | 16 Josh Willingham | 18 Rich Harden | 19 Jemile Weeks | 20 Josh Donaldson | 22 Chris Carter | 23 Michael Taylor | 26 Anthony Recker | 29 Scott Sizemore | 31 Brandon Allen | 32 Brandon McCarthy | 36 Eric Sogard | 40 Andrew Bailey | 47 Gio Gonzalez | 50 Grant Balfour | 52 Guillermo Moscoso | 53 Trevor Cahill | 55 Hideki Matsui | 56 Craig Breslow | 57 Brian Fuentes | 58 Jai Miller | 59 Jordan Norberto | 60 Fautino De Los Santos | 62 Neil Wagner | 65 Graham Godfrey | 66 Tyson Ross | 67 Andrew Carignan | 88 Josh Outman | -- Sean Doolittle | -- Pedro Figueroa | -- Cedric Hunter | -- Kila Ka'aihue | -- Evan Scribner
Inactive roster Disabled list 10 Daric Barton | 33 Joey Devine | 49 Brett Anderson | 51 Dallas Braden | 64 Trystan Magnuson
Coaching Staff Manager 6 Bob Melvin | Bench Coach -- Chip Hale | 1st Base Coach 46 Tye Waller | 3rd Base Coach 3 Mike Gallego | Hitting Coach Vacant | Pitching Coach -- Curt Young | Bullpen Coach 41 Rick Rodriguez
Categories:- 1984 births
- Living people
- Baseball players from Texas
- Major League Baseball infielders
- Kane County Cougars players
- Arizona League Athletics players
- Stockton Ports players
- Sacramento River Cats players
- Oakland Athletics players
- Texas A&M Aggies baseball players
- American baseball infielder stubs
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