Patrick Bailey (baseball)

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Patrick Bailey
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Bailey with the United Stats collegiate national baseball team in 2019
San Francisco Giants
Catcher
Born: (1999-05-29) May 29, 1999 (age 22)
Greensboro, North Carolina
Bats: Switch
Throws: Right

Patrick Bailey (born May 29, 1999) is an American professional baseball catcher in the San Francisco Giants organization. Bailey was selected 13th overall by the Giants in the first round of the 2020 Major League Baseball draft.

Amateur career[]

Bailey attended Wesleyan Christian Academy in High Point, North Carolina, where he played baseball.[1] In 2016, he was selected for the U-18 United States national baseball team.[2] In 2017, his senior year, he batted .510 with five home runs and 33 RBIs.[3] He was drafted by the Minnesota Twins in the 37th round of the 2017 Major League Baseball draft, but did not sign and instead chose to fulfill his commitment to play college baseball at North Carolina State University.[4]

In 2018, Bailey's freshman year at NC State, he slashed .321/.419/.604 with 13 home runs (a NC State freshman record) and forty RBIs, earning ACC Freshman of the Year honors alongside being named a Freshman-All American and to the All-ACC Second Team.[5][6][7] After the 2018 season, he played collegiate summer baseball with the Yarmouth–Dennis Red Sox of the Cape Cod Baseball League.[8] He was also selected for the United States collegiate national team.[2] As a sophomore in 2019, Bailey batted .288 with ten home runs alongside a .989 fielding percentage.[9] That summer, he played for the United States collegiate national team again.[10][11][2] As a junior in 2020, he hit six home runs and compiled twenty RBIs over 17 games before the college baseball season was cut short due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Professional career[]

Bailey was selected by the San Francisco Giants in the first round with the 13th overall selection of the 2020 Major League Baseball draft.[12] He signed with the Giants for a signing bonus of $3.8 million.[13] He did not play a minor league game in 2020 due to the cancellation of the minor league season.[14]

Bailey made his professional debut in 2021 with the Eugene Emeralds of the High-A West.[15] After slashing .185/.290/.296 with two home runs and 15 RBIs over 33 games, he was demoted to the Rookie-level Arizona League Giants on June 26, but was reassigned to the San Jose Giants of the Low-A West after two games.[16] Over 47 games with San Jose to finish the season, Bailey slashed .322/.415/.531 with seven home runs, 24 RBIs, and 16 doubles.[17] He was selected to play in the Arizona Fall League for the Scottsdale Scorpions after the season where he was named to the Fall Stars Game.[18][19]

References[]

  1. ^ joe.sirera@greensboro.com, Joe Sirera. "Wesleyan catcher Patrick Bailey is among nation's best". Greensboro News and Record.
  2. ^ a b c "Forty-One USA Baseball Alumni Selected in the 2020 MLB Draft". USA Baseball. June 12, 2020. Retrieved June 26, 2020.
  3. ^ joe.sirera@greensboro.com, Joe Sirera. "HSXtra All-Area: baseball". Greensboro News and Record.
  4. ^ "Patrick Bailey Projected as Top 10 Pick in 2020 MLB Mock Draft". PackPride.com.
  5. ^ https://www.newsobserver.com/sports/article212216869.html[bare URL]
  6. ^ "NC State's Patrick Bailey breaks freshman home run record". PackPride.com.
  7. ^ Editor, Camden Speight, Assistant Sports. "Patrick Bailey to build on historic freshman campaign". Technician.CS1 maint: extra text: authors list (link)
  8. ^ "Patrick Bailey". pointstreak.com. Retrieved June 11, 2020.
  9. ^ Sutton, Bob. "ACC baseball preview: High hopes for in-state teams". The Times-News.
  10. ^ Speight, Camden. "Patrick Bailey closes out USA Baseball summer in Japan". Technician.
  11. ^ "Patrick Bailey Named to USA Baseball Collegiate National Team". USA Baseball.
  12. ^ Schulman, Henry (June 11, 2020). "Giants' surprise first pick in the 2020 MLB draft: college catcher Patrick Bailey". San Francisco Chronicle.
  13. ^ "Giants sign first-round draft pick Patrick Bailey for $3.8 million". July 2020.
  14. ^ "2020 Minor League Baseball Season Cancelled".
  15. ^ "Giants prospects get Minors assignments". MLB.com.
  16. ^ "Giants minor-league notebook: Joey Bart plugging holes, Marco Luciano putting together 'next-level' at-bats".
  17. ^ "Giants minor league review: Bailey finds stride for San Jose".
  18. ^ "Here are the Arizona Fall League rosters". MLB.com.
  19. ^ "Check out the Fall Stars Game rosters". MLB.com.

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