Chris Truby

Chris Truby
Third baseman
Born: December 9, 1973 (1973-12-09) (age 37) Palm Springs, California
Batted: Right	Threw: Right
MLB debut
June 16, 2000 for the Houston Astros
Last MLB appearance
May 7, 2003 for the Tampa Bay Devil Rays
Career statistics
Batting average	.231
Home runs	23
Runs batted in	107
Teams
Houston Astros (2000-2001) Montreal Expos (2002) Detroit Tigers (2002) Tampa Bay Devil Rays (2003)

Christopher John Truby (born December 9, 1973 in Palm Springs, California) is a third baseman who played some of his career in Major League Baseball, though most of his time was spent in various teams' minor league systems.

Truby came up in 2000 with the Houston Astros. After hitting .260 with 11 home runs in 258 at bats his rookie season, he never matched his rookie totals. He has since played partial seasons with the Detroit Tigers, Montreal Expos, and Tampa Bay Devil Rays. His most recent MLB appearance came during the 2003 season. The Kansas City Royals signed Truby with the intention of having him play third base until prospect Mark Teahen was ready for full-time duty in the major leagues. However, Truby sustained a wrist injury in spring training and started the 2005 season on the disabled list.

Truby was a replacement player in 1995, before the 1994 Major League Baseball strike was resolved. After replacement players were no longer necessary, Truby spent the next five years playing for various Houston Astro's minor league teams before finally breaking through to the Major Leagues with the 2000 Astros.

Truby last played for the Indianapolis Indians, the Triple-A affiliate of the Pittsburgh Pirates. On June 22, 2007, Truby announced his retirement from baseball as a player. In 2008, he took a coaching job in the Pirates minor league system, then was named as manager of the West Oahu CaneFires of Hawaii Winter Baseball.[1]. He was named manager of the Phillies minor league affiliate Williamaport Crosscutters in 2009 and is returning in the same position for the 2010 season. In 2011, he will manage the Lakewood BlueClaws, also an affiliate (A) of the Philadelphia Phillies.

Internet joke

A long-standing joke on the Internet refers to Truby as a Satanist; it began in 2001 when a Usenet poster complained that controversial baseball star Albert Belle was being used as a lightning rod for everything bad about the game. "If somebody like Chris Truby was accused of satanic dismemberment, it would take about a week before people started saying, 'I'm so sick of all these ballplayers like Chris Truby and Albert Belle with all their satanic rituals and the dismemberment and everything.'" The poster, Tom Nawrocki, later maintained he didn't mean to single out Truby, but rather that he wanted to illustrate his point about Belle by using a "completely random, not very well-known" ballplayer to pair with him. Nawrocki later apologized to Truby. Another poster pointed out that Chris Truby is an anagram for "Bury Christ". [2]

External links

• Career statistics and player information from Baseball-Reference
• Minor League Splits and Situational Stats

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Name	Truby, Chris
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Date of birth	December 9, 1973
Place of birth	Palm Springs, California
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