- Aubrey Huff
Infobox MLB player
width = 150
name = Aubrey Huff
team = Baltimore Orioles
number = 17
positionplain =Designated hitter /First baseman
birthdate = birth date and age|1976|12|20
birthplace = city-state|Marion|Ohio
bats = Left
throws = Right
debutdate = August 2
debutyear = 2000
debutteam = Tampa Bay Devil Rays
statyear = 2008
stat1label = Games
stat1value = 1172
stat2label =Batting average
stat2value = .287
stat3label =Home run s
stat3value = 188
stat4label = Runs batted in
stat4value = 667
teams =
*Tampa Bay Devil Rays (by|2000-by|2006)
*Houston Astros (by|2006)
*Baltimore Orioles (by|2007-present)Aubrey Lewis Huff (born
December 20 ,1976 inMarion, Ohio ) is aMajor League Baseball designated hitter ,third baseman andfirst baseman for theBaltimore Orioles .High school career
Grew up in
Mineral Wells, Texas . Transferred fromMineral Wells High School toBrewer High School in Fort Worth, Texas before junior year. At Brewer High School, Huff was an All-District baseball player and also excelled inbasketball .University of Miami
After attending
Vernon College inNorth Texas , Huff transferred to theUniversity of Miami and, as a junior, was named second team "All-American" by "Baseball Weekly ". In his final season, he set a University of Miami season record with 95 RBIs and led the Hurricanes inhome run s (20), doubles (20) andtotal bases (172).Professional career
Tampa Bay Devil Rays
Out of the
University of Miami , Huff was Tampa Bay's fifth-round selection in the by|1998 amateur draft and quickly advanced through the minor league system. He was named the Devil Rays' "Minor League Player of the Year" in 2000 at Durham andInternational League Rookie of the Year. Huff made his major league debut later that year and spent the final two months of the season with the Rays, where he hit .287. In 2002, Huff ended the season with a .313batting average , leading the Rays. He then hit 34 home runs--another team high--during the 2003 season, adding 107 RBIs while sporting a .311 batting average that also led the club.Houston Astros
On
July 12 ,2006 , theHouston Astros acquired Huff from the Tampa Bay Devil Rays for minor leaguersMitch Talbot andBen Zobrist . In his debut with the Astros onJuly 13 ,2006 , Huff went 2-4 with a three-run homer.Baltimore Orioles
On
December 30 ,2006 he signed a 3-year $20 million contract with the Orioles.Before the 2008 season, Huff switched his uniform number from 19 to 17, in honor of his former teammate
Joe Kennedy , who passed away during the previous offseason at the age of 28. [http://arizona.diamondbacks.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20080818&content_id=3329265&vkey=news_ari&fext=.jsp&c_id=ari]He was named AL Player of the Week in July 2008 after hitting .345 with three home runs and nine RBIs. [http://www.baltimoresun.com/sports/baseball/bal-sp.orioles08jul08,0,7677191.story]
Aubrey Huff was named "Most Valuable Oriole" for the 2008 Season. He also is a genuinely nice guy who reportedly bought a group of fans $100 worth of beer for painting their chests to spell out "HUFF!".
Legacy
Huff has hit 188 career home runs, placing him in the Top 400 (tied 313th overall) players by total career home runs, led currently by
Barry Bonds . Hehit for the cycle onJune 29 ,2007 , a night on which he also made his 1000th hit, and 200th double. He is only the third Oriole to hit for the cycle, afterBrooks Robinson andCal Ripken, Jr. and the first player to do so atOriole Park at Camden Yards . He remains the Devil Rays' all time leader in games played, total bases, doubles, home runs, runs batted in, extra base hits, and intentional walks.Huff has appeared at five different positions in his career: third base, first base, left field, right field, and
designated hitter .tatistics
Major League
small|Roll over stat abbreviations for definitions. Stats through
September 28 ,2008.cite web| url=http://www.baseball-reference.com/h/huffau01.shtml | title=Aubrey Huff Statistics| work=Baseball-Reference| accessdate=2008-08-14]Controversy
On
November 13 ,2007 , on an appearance of Bubba the Love Sponge show, Huff described the city ofBaltimore as "ahorseshit city", after Bubba and the guys asked about the night life. He later said his remarks were taken out of context and he was only commenting on the city's night life. Both the audio and video of the show were available only to adult subscribers.This led Orioles' fans to jeer him incessantly throughout the 2008 season opening day game.ee also
*
Top 500 home run hitters of all time
*Hitting for the cycle
*List of Baltimore Orioles Opening Day Starting Lineups
*Tampa Bay Rays all-time roster References
External links
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