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Craig Brazell 
Hanshin Tigers — No. 67 First baseman Born: May 10, 1980 Bats: Left Throws: Right MLB debut August 17, 2004 for the New York Mets Career statistics
(through 2008 season)Batting average .265 Home runs 1 Runs batted in 3 Teams - New York Mets (2004)
- Kansas City Royals (2007)
- Saitama Seibu Lions (2008) (NPB)
- Hanshin Tigers (2009-present) (NPB)
Craig Walter Brazell (born May 10, 1980 in Montgomery, Alabama) is a professional baseball player and first baseman who currently plays for the Hanshin Tigers.
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Early life
Brazell attended Jefferson Davis High School in Montgomery, Alabama. He hit .536 in his senior year to capture the All-Metro batting championship. He was drafted out of high school by the New York Mets as the 154th overall pick in the 5th round of the 1998 Major League Baseball Draft.
Baseball career
Brazell played in Rookie ball from 1998 to 1999. He began playing in Single-A in 2000 and did not get promoted to Double-A until 2002. He was promoted to Triple-A in 2003.
Brazell made his major league debut on August 17, 2004, for the New York Mets. He played first base and played a total of 24 games, mainly as a pinch hitter. In 2005, he only played in Triple-A for the Norfolk Tides and was released after the season.
He signed a minor league contract with the Los Angeles Dodgers for the 2006 season. He played for the Jacksonville Suns, their Double-A affiliate, for the whole season. He hit just .249 with 21 home runs in 421 at-bats for the Suns. He was released following the 2006 season.
He signed a minor league contract with the Kansas City Royals for the 2007 season. He began playing for the Wichita Wranglers, the Royals Double-A affiliate, in the 2007 season. He played 30 games and batted .349 with 7 home runs in 109 at-bats before being promoted to the Omaha Royals, the Royals Triple-A team. He made the Pacific Coast League All-Star team and finished the season with Omaha batting .307 with 32 home runs. His combined 39 home runs led the minor leagues in 2007, as he won the Joe Bauman Home Run Award.[1] He was released by the Royals on November 28, 2007.
On December 6, 2007, Brazell agreed to a contract with the Saitama Seibu Lions of Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball. He was released after hitting .234 with 27 home runs and 87 RBI.
On January 15, 2009, he signed a minor league contract with the Baltimore Orioles, only to be released in April 2009.
After a short stint with the St. Paul Saints of the American Association, an independent league, Brazell signed with the Hanshin Tigers of Nippon Professional Baseball on May 28, 2009.
References
- ^ By Michael Blinn / Special to MLB.com (2007-09-18). "Article | Pacific Coast League News". Minorleaguebaseball.com. http://www.minorleaguebaseball.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20070918&content_id=303769&vkey=news_l112&fext=.jsp&sid=l112. Retrieved 2011-09-14.
External links
- Career statistics and player information from MLB, or ESPN, or Baseball-Reference, or Fangraphs, or The Baseball Cube
Hanshin Tigers roster 2011 First squad 00 Kohei Shibata | 1 Takashi Toritani | 3 Kentaro Sekimoto | 4 Hiroki Uemoto | 5 Keiichi Hirano | 6 Tomoaki Kanemoto | 7 Shunsuke | 8 Ryo Asai | 9 Matt Murton | 12 Ryo Watanabe | 13 Daiki Enokida | 14 Atsushi Nomi | 21 Minoru Iwata | 22 Kyuji Fujikawa | 24 Shinjiro Hiyama | 25 Takahiro Arai | 28 Shinobu Fukuhara | 31 Wei-Chu Lin | 32 Ryota Arai | 34 Yasutomo Kubo | 39 Shinji Komiyama | 41 Hiroyuki Kobayashi | 50 Akihito Fujii | 54 Randy Messenger | 55 Jason Standridge | 62 Yusuke Kawasaki | 67 Craig Brazell | 69 Issei Morita
Second squad 0 Yamato | 2 Kenji Johjima | 15 Masanori Fujihara | 16 Yuya Ando | 17 Naohisa Sugiyama | 18 Kazuhito Futagami | 19 Ikketsu Sho | 20 Kazuya Tsutsui | 27 Takumi Akiyama | 29 Tatsuya Kojima | 30 Tomoyuki Kubota | 33 Ikuro Katsuragi | 35 Katsuhiko Saka | 36 Shinta Hifumi | 37 Masashi Nohara | 38 Ryohei Hashimoto | 40 Cheng Kai-Wen | 42 Tsuyoshi Shimoyanagi | 43 Ken Nishimura | 44 Yuhei Kai | 45 Takashi Shimizu | 46 Naoto Tsuru | 47 Keiji Uezono | 48 Shunsuke Ishikawa | 49 Ryuji Wakatake | 51 Kodai Sakurai | 52 Fumihito Haraguchi | 57 Taichi Okazaki | 58 Fumiya Araki | 56 Kenta Abe | 59 Akira Iwamoto | 60 Masahiro Nakanishi | 61 Kenichi Tagami | 63 Kosuke Kato | 64 Hirokazu Shiranita | 65 Daiki Kiyohara | 66 Haruki Kurose | 68 Ryunosuke Yokoyama | 79 Masashi Sajikihara | 94 Yuya Nohara | 99 Keisuke Kano
Development players 116 Robert Zarate (pitcher) | 118 Yutaka Tamaki (pitcher) | 120 Shintaro Tanaka (infielder) | 121 Yusuke Kuroda (outfielder) | 122 Teteuya Sakaguchi (infielder) | 123 Shuhei Takada (pitcher) | 124 Koji Yoshioka (pitcher) | 125 Kosei Fujii (infielder) | 126 Hiroya Shimamoto (pitcher) | 127 Masaki Anada (infielder) | 128 Marcos Vechionacci (infielder)
First squad Coaching Manager: 72 Akinobu Mayumi | Head coach: 70 Katsuhiko Kido | Fielding chief coach: 82 Yoshiaki Oka | Pitching coaches: 84 Yasuo Kubo, 85 Takashi Yamaguchi | Hitting coaches: 86 Yutaka Wada, 88 Atsushi Kataoka | Base coaches: 89 Koji Yamawaki, 92 Teruyoshi Kuji | Battery coach: 81 Yasuo Yoshida | Traning coaches: 91 Atsunori Ito, 93 Takao Ebino
Second squad Coaching Manager: 74 Haruki Yoshitake | Pitching coaches: 71 Kiyooki Nakanishi, 80 Keiichi Yabu | Hitting coaches: 76 Hiroshi Yagi, 75 Mitsunobu Takahashi | Base coaches: 73 Naoyuki Kazaoka, 87 Yutaka Nakamura | Battery coach: 83 Munehiko Shimada | Traning coach: 90 Toshiyuki Tsuzuki | Development cheif coach: 98 Mitsuo Tateishi | Coaches for development players: 95 Shoji Toyama, 96 So Tsutsui, 97 Yasunori Nagao
Categories:- 1980 births
- Living people
- American expatriate baseball players in Japan
- Baseball players from Alabama
- Binghamton Mets players
- Hanshin Tigers players
- Jacksonville Suns players
- Kansas City Royals players
- Major League Baseball first basemen
- New York Mets players
- Nippon Professional Baseball infielders
- Norfolk Tides players
- Omaha Royals players
- People from Montgomery, Alabama
- Saitama Seibu Lions players
- St. Lucie Mets players
- St. Paul Saints players
- Wichita Wranglers players
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