Dee Brown (baseball)
Dee Brown | |
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Left fielder | |
Born: Bronx, New York, U.S. | March 27, 1978|
Batted: Left Threw: Right | |
Professional debut | |
MLB: September 14, 1998, for the Kansas City Royals | |
NPB: March 20, 2010, for the Saitama Seibu Lions | |
Last appearance | |
MLB: September 18, 2007, for the Oakland Athletics | |
NPB: July 13, 2011, for the Saitama Seibu Lions | |
MLB statistics | |
Batting average | .233 |
Home runs | 14 |
Runs batted in | 89 |
NPB statistics | |
Batting average | .230 |
Home runs | 21 |
Runs batted in | 81 |
Teams | |
Dermal Bram "Dee" Brown (born March 27, 1978) is an American former professional baseball outfielder. He attended Marlboro Central High School in Marlboro, New York.
Brown played baseball and football at Marlboro. In football, he rushed for the second-most yards in New York high school history and scored 75 touchdowns. As a junior baseball player, he hit .470 with eight home runs. He committed to play both college baseball and college football at Maryland.[1] Brown was named to the All-America First Team by the American Baseball Coaches Association and Rawlings.[2]
Drafted in the first round (14th overall) by the Kansas City Royals in 1996, Brown played for the Royals in parts of major league seasons from 1998-2004, spending all of the 2005 and 2006 seasons in the minor leagues with the Wichita Wranglers, the Kansas City Double-A Affiliate. On December 30, 2006, Brown signed a minor league contract with an invitation to spring training with the Arizona Diamondbacks and was assigned to the Tucson Sidewinders, Arizona's Triple-A affiliate. On May 30, 2007, Brown was traded to the Oakland Athletics for cash considerations. In December 2007, Brown signed a minor league contract with the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim and spent the entire 2008 season in Triple-A and became a free agent after the season. He signed a minor league contract with the Los Angeles Dodgers for the 2009 season. He hit .295 with 19 homers and 80 RBI with the AAA Albuquerque Isotopes in 2009.
Brown signed with the Saitama Seibu Lions of Nippon Professional Baseball in Japan for the 2010 season.
References[]
- ^ Nakamura, David (January 30, 1996). "2-Sport Star Commits to Maryland". The Washington Post. Retrieved January 22, 2018.
- ^ "1996 ABCA/Rawlings High School All-America Teams". abca.prestosports.com. Archived from the original on August 27, 2018. Retrieved January 22, 2018.
External links[]
- Career statistics and player information from Baseball-Reference, or Baseball-Reference (Minors)
- Living people
- 1978 births
- Kansas City Royals players
- Major League Baseball outfielders
- Oakland Athletics players
- African-American baseball players
- Baseball players from New York (state)
- Spokane Indians players
- Wichita Wranglers players
- Omaha Royals players
- Trenton Thunder players
- Harrisburg Senators players
- New Orleans Zephyrs players
- Tucson Sidewinders players
- Salt Lake Bees players
- Albuquerque Isotopes players
- Sacramento River Cats players
- Sportspeople from the Bronx
- American expatriate baseball players in Japan
- Saitama Seibu Lions players
- People from Marlboro, New York
- 21st-century African-American people
- 20th-century African-American people