Brad Miller (baseball)

Brad Miller

Miller with the Seattle Mariners
Tampa Bay Rays – No. 13
Shortstop
Born: (1989-10-18) October 18, 1989
Windermere, Florida
Bats: Left Throws: Right
MLB debut
June 28, 2013, for the Seattle Mariners
MLB statistics
(through April 16, 2016)
Batting average .244
Home runs 30
Runs batted in 121
Teams

Bradley Austin Miller (born October 18, 1989) is an American professional baseball shortstop for the Tampa Bay Rays of Major League Baseball (MLB), he previously played for the Seattle Mariners. Miller played college baseball for the Clemson Tigers, where he won the Brooks Wallace Award as the top shortstop in college baseball. his favorite player growing up was Ken Griffey Jr.

High School

While growing up playing at Olympia High School in Florida he had a phenomenal junior year batting .420 and an on base percentage of .560. With these stats he was named Olympias MVP (Most Valuable Player). This progressed his career in baseball when he started to get looked at by a lot of teams that wanted him on their club, both college and majors.

College Career

Miller then had a decision to make on where he wanted his career to go after the end of his senior season. When the season ended in 2008 Miller was rated by Perfect Game as #17 prospect in Florida. He was offered to play at Clemson University one of the top schools in college baseball. He accepted to play his college career at Clemson even though the Texas Rangers selected him in the 39th round hoping they could get there glove on him. He was committed to his team the Clemson tigers. Miller saw the diamond as soon as he got to the Tiger’s club. He was the first freshman to start every game since 2005. He was a very patient batter which led to him getting walked 53 times in his freshman year. He also found himself on base .406 of the time with hitting .273 with three home runs and 36 RBI’s (runners batted in). After his freshman year he was persistent in raising his stats from the previous year. As he still kept his mind right at the plate he did indeed raise his on base percentage from .406 to .463 also hitting eight more home runs that year and 23 extra base hits. With Miller’s stats of these two previous college seasons he was asked to play on the USA national baseball team in the Olympics in Tokyo Japan. Where he stayed on his streak at the plate hitting the team’s best at .441 and with an outrageous .525 on base percentage. This is where he showed his leadership abilities and showed that he was competent to be a leader on the field. Miller helped Team USA achieve the Silver Medal. With two seasons down and an outstanding performance with Team USA Miller was then said to be the number three prospect in all of the ACC by Baseball America. Miller was interviewed by Scott Sypein with Chasing the dream and asked Miller “Before starting your professional career you had a chance to represent your country by playing for Team USA. What was that whole experience like for you”? Millers response was “It was one of the best experiences of my life! Just getting the opportunity to represent our country was amazing and then the people and coaches I met really topped off the whole experience. Getting to travel across the globe, being on the road all summer really helped me grow up a little bit too. I still talk to all the guys from those teams and run into them on the field quite a bit!” After Millers last two season with Clemson it was only a matter of who and when he would be selected in the draft. In the second round Miller was selected by the Seattle Mariners. Miller did not sign right after he was picked he went into negotiations with the Mariners up until the very last day for signing. After he signed the contract he played in the remaining 14 games with the Clinton Lumberkings. Where he continued his hitting streak and in only 52 at bats he hit for .415 and had an on base percentage of .458. After showing what Miller could do for the Lumberkings the Mariners bumped miller up a level to the High Desert Mavericks. While with the Mavericks Miller played in 97 games and hit for .339 and with a career high of 11 home runs. The Mariners decided that they were going to move him up to their AA team for the second half of the season. With the remainder of the season with the Jackson Generals Miller hit for .320 and had an on base percentage of .406. When the season was over the Mariners invited miller to their Major League training camp where miller would be tested to the best of his ability. Miller said that this was the hardest camp that he has ever done. He moved around positions to try to get a starting job. He was a shortstop which he practiced at third and second base. When the training camp came to an end the Mariners decided that Miller would stay with the Jackson Generals.

Seattle Mariners

In 2013 Miller would finally make it to the Mariners roster. Miller would do just fine for the Mariners in the 2013 Season hitting .265 and with an on base percentage of .318. hitting eight home runs and 36 RBI’s. which would lead him into his next season where he hit .221 and an on base percentage of .288 along with 10 home runs and 36 RBI’s. Leading up to the 2015 season where he had been put up in a pickle for the starting position at short stop with Chris Taylor in spring training. During spring training and the fight for short stop Chris Taylor broke his wrist which gave Miller the starting position at short stop. During the season in may Chris Taylor’s wrist had healed and the Mariners promoted him to the majors in which they gave him the starting position at shortstop. A month after Miller had lost his starting position to Taylor, Miller was involved in a six person swap with the Tampa Bay Rays which now back close to his home town he can call home.

Tampa Bay Rays

On November 5, 2015, the Mariners traded Miller, Logan Morrison, and Danny Farquhar to the Tampa Bay Rays for Nathan Karns, C. J. Riefenhauser, and Boog Powell.[1]

References

  1. ↑ Stecker, Brent (November 5, 2015). "Mariners send Brad Miller, Logan Morrison to Rays in 6-player trade". mynorthwest.com. Retrieved November 5, 2015.

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