Ryan Rua

Rua playing first base for the Texas Rangers

Texas Rangers – No. 16

Outfielder / First baseman

Born: March 11, 1990
Amherst, Ohio

Bats: Right

Throws: Right

MLB debut

August 29, 2014, for the Texas Rangers

MLB statistics
(through April 29, 2016)

Batting average

.254

Home runs

Runs batted in

Teams

Texas Rangers (2014–present)

Ryan Anthony Rua (born March 11, 1990) is an American professional baseball outfielder and first baseman for the Texas Rangers of Major League Baseball (MLB).

Career

Rua was drafted by the Texas Rangers in the 17th round of the 2011 Major League Baseball draft out of Lake Erie College.^[1] He was the first player in school history to be drafted. He made his professional debut for the Arizona League Rangers that year and also played for the Spokane Indians. In 52 games, he hit .303./.376/.484 with four home runs. He returned to Spokane in 2012 and hit .293/.368/.432 with seven home runs in 74 games.

Rua started 2013 with the Hickory Crawdads.^[2] At the end of June he was leading the entire minor leagues in homers.^[3] On August 9, he was promoted to the Double-A Frisco RoughRiders.^[4]^[5] He finished the year hitting .247/.347/.525 with 32 home runs in 127 games.

He started the 2014 season back with Frisco. Rua was called up to the big leagues for the first time on August 29, 2014 and made is debut the same day at first base, collecting his first hit on an infield single. Rua finished his debut going 1-for-5 with a run scored. On September 21, 2014, Rua hit his first career homer, a solo shot off Angels' closer Huston Street, sending the Rangers to a 2-1 victory. On Opening Day 2015, Rua had the only base hit for the Rangers as they fell to Oakland 8-0.

On July 30, 2015, Rua hit an inside-the-park home run against the New York Yankees in the bottom of the fourth inning, tying the game 5-5 (the Rangers went on to win 7-6 after a walk-off from Josh Hamilton).

References

External links

Career statistics and player information from MLB, or ESPN, or Baseball-Reference, or Fangraphs, or The Baseball Cube, or Baseball-Reference (Minors)
Lake Erie College Storm bio
Ryan Rua on Twitter
Ryan Rua on Instagram

Texas Rangers current roster

Active roster	1 Elvis Andrus 2 Hanser Alberto 3 Delino DeShields 6 Bobby Wilson 8 Bryan Holaday 12 Rougned Odor 15 Drew Stubbs 16 Ryan Rua 18 Mitch Moreland 20 Ian Desmond 29 Adrián Beltré 30 Nomar Mazara 33 Martín Pérez 35 Cole Hamels 37 Shawn Tolleson 41 Jake Diekman 43 Tony Barnette 45 Derek Holland 47 Sam Dyson 48 Colby Lewis 53 Anthony Ranaudo 54 Tom Wilhelmsen 55 Cesar Ramos 58 Alex Claudio 84 Prince Fielder

Inactive roster	13 Joey Gallo 19 Jurickson Profar 21 Chi Chi Gonzalez 22 Nick Martinez 31 Phil Klein 56 Andrew Faulkner 59 Connor Sadzeck 62 José Leclerc 63 Brett Nicholas 65 Yohander Méndez 67 Patrick Kivlehan 77 Luke Jackson

Disabled list	11 Yu Darvish 17 Shin-Soo Choo 32 Josh Hamilton 50 Keone Kela 52 Tanner Scheppers 61 Robinson Chirinos 64 A. J. Griffin

Coaching staff	Manager 28 Jeff Banister Bench 24 Steve Buechele First base 4 Héctor Ortiz Third base 27 Tony Beasley Interim third base 44 Spike Owen Hitting 9 Anthony Iapoce Assistant hitting 0 Justin Mashore Pitching 46 Doug Brocail Bullpen 40 Brad Holman Bullpen catcher 66 Josh Frasier Field 60 Jayce Tingler Replay 5 Bobby Jones

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