Robb Paller

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Robb Paller
Colorado Springs Snow Sox
Outfielder
Born: (1993-05-21) May 21, 1993 (age 28)
Brooklyn, New York
Bats: Left
Throws: Right
Medals
Men's baseball
Representing  Israel
European Baseball Championship
Silver medal – second place 2021 Israel Team

Robert Paller (born May 21, 1993) is an American-Israeli professional baseball outfielder, plays for the Israel national baseball team, and plays for the Colorado Springs Snow Sox of the Pecos League. He played college baseball for the Columbia Lions baseball team, and was First Team All-Ivy League in his senior year. He has since also played in the Frontier League, the Canadian-American Association, and the United Shore Professional Baseball League.

Early life[]

Paller is from Brooklyn, New York.[1] He attended the Berkeley Carroll School ('11), where he was coached by his father Walter Paller.[2][better source needed][3][1] Playing center field and hitting leadoff, he batted .426 as a junior with 18 stolen bases in 19 attempts, and .531 as a senior with 52 runs, 20 RBIs, and 32 stolen bases, and was named league MVP.[4][1][5] He was named All-Brooklyn by the New York Post in his junior and senior seasons, and All-City by the New York Post and the New York Daily News as a senior.[1][2]

College baseball[]

Paller then attended Columbia University ('16), where he played college baseball for the Columbia Lions baseball team, primarily playing left field.[6][7] In his sophomore year in 2014 he batted .296/.351/.419 with 12 doubles (3rd in the league), 16 walks (9th), and 35 RBIs (leading the league) in 186 at bats, and was named All-Ivy League second team, and Academic All-Ivy League.[7][1][8]

In his junior year in 2015, Paller batted .264/.392/.472 with 7 home runs (4th in the league), 35 RBIs (4th), and 32 walks (leading the league) in 159 at bats.[7] In the summer of 2015, Paller played for the Green Bay Bullfrogs in the Northwoods League, a collegiate summer baseball league. He batted .345(7th in the league)/.433(8th)/.480 in 177 at bats.[7][9] That same summer, he also played for the Bourne Braves of the Cape Cod Baseball League.[10]

In 2016 he batted .302/.400.503(6th in the league) with 26 runs (7th), 13 doubles (3rd), 5 home runs (4th), 32 RBIs (2nd) and 24 walks (5th) in 149 at bats, and was named First Team All-Ivy League.[7][1] Paller finished his Columbia career 4th in career doubles (43), 5th in walks (79), and 6th in RBIs (111).[11][12]

Professional baseball[]

In 2016 he played for the Lake Erie Crushers of the Frontier League and the Sussex County Miners of the Canadian-American Association. Paller batted a combined .215/.365/.341 in 135 at bats.[7]

In 2017, Paller played for the Birmingham-Bloomfield Beavers of the United Shore Professional Baseball League. He batted .367/.557/.633(leading the league in each category), with 6 home runs (7th) and 37 walks (leading the league) in 90 at bats, and had 21 at bats for Lake Erie.[7] In 2018 he played for Birmingham-Bloomfield, and batted .228/.354/.444 in 177 at bats.[7]

In 2021 he has played for the Colorado Springs Snow Sox of the Pecos League.[7]

Team Israel[]

In 2019, Paller became an Israeli citizen so that he could compete for the Israel national baseball team in the 2020 Summer Olympics.[13]

Paller played for the Israel national baseball team in the outfield as the team played in the 2019 European Baseball Championship - B-Pool in early July 2019 in Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria, winning all of its games and advancing to the playoffs against Team Lithuania in the 2019 Playoff Series at the end of July 2019 for the last qualifying spot for the 2019 European Baseball Championship. He batted .273/.500(7th in the tournament)/.500 with two doubles (4th), one home run, and 10 walks (1st) in 22 at bats.[14] He also played for Team Israel at the 2019 European Baseball Championship, batting .208/.387/.500 with one double, two home runs, and seven walks in 24 at bats.[15][16]

References[]

  1. ^ a b c d e f "Robb Paller - Baseball". Columbia University Athletics.
  2. ^ a b Braziller, Zach (June 22, 2011). "The Post's All-Brooklyn baseball honors". The New York Post.
  3. ^ Braziller, Zach (September 30, 2010). "Berkeley Carroll's Paller picks Columbia". Brooklyn Paper. Retrieved July 5, 2021.
  4. ^ Braziller, Zach (April 4, 2011). "Berkeley Carroll four plan to roar". The New York Post.
  5. ^ [1]
  6. ^ "Spring Preview: Baseball Goes for Four-Peat". Columbia College Today. April 11, 2016.
  7. ^ a b c d e f g h i "2014 Ivy League Batting Leaders". Baseball-Reference.com.
  8. ^ "Columbia Academic All-Ivy Selections". ivyleague.com. July 28, 2017.
  9. ^ "Pizza slices: Robb Paller's new approach to hitting - Columbia Spectator".
  10. ^ "Robb Paller". pointstreak.com. Retrieved August 9, 2021.
  11. ^ Spezia, Mark (May 9, 2018). "United Shore Professional Baseball League is a hit entering third year". Detroit Free Press.
  12. ^ https://s3.amazonaws.com/gocolumbialions.com/documents/2019/2/25/2019_Baseball_Record_Book.pdf
  13. ^ "Four U.S. baseball players immigrating to Israel to join Olympics bid". Haaretz. April 7, 2019. Retrieved July 5, 2021.
  14. ^ "European Championship Seniors B 2019 - Pool 2 - Individual Statistics," Baseballstats.eu.
  15. ^ "EUROPEAN Championship A-Pool - ISRAEL". Baseballstats.eu. Retrieved November 26, 2019.
  16. ^ "ISRAEL vs SPAIN (Sep 15, 2019)". Baseballstats.eu. September 15, 2019. Retrieved November 26, 2019.

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