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| Brock Holt |
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| Holt with the Boston Red Sox |
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| Boston Red Sox – No. 12 |
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| Second baseman / Shortstop / Outfielder |
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| Born: June 11, 1988 (age 30) |
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| Fort Worth, Texas |
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| Bats: Left |
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| Throws: Right |
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| MLB debut |
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| September 1, 2012, for the Pittsburgh Pirates |
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| MLB statistics (through September 20, 2018) |
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| Batting average .265 |
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| Home runs 19 |
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| Runs batted in 171 |
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| Teams |
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| Pittsburgh Pirates (2012) |
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| Boston Red Sox (2013 – present) |
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| Career highlights and awards |
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| All-Star (2015) |
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| Hit for the cycle on June 16, 2015 |
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| World Series champion (2013) |
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| Brock Holt |
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| Brock Wyatt Holt (born June 11, 1988) is an American professional baseball second baseman, shortstop and outfielder for the Boston Red Sox of Major League Baseball (MLB). |
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| While primarily used as an infielder, he has started in and played at every position for the Red Sox, except for pitcher and catcher. |
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| Listed at 5 feet 10 inches (1.78 m) and 180 pounds (82 kg), Holt bats left-handed and throws right-handed. |
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| He first played in MLB for the Pittsburgh Pirates in 2012, but has played for the Red Sox every season since. |
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| High school career |
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| Holt graduated in 2006 from Stephenville High School in Texas. |
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| In 2003, his freshman year, he made the District 8-4A All-District baseball team despite batting just .227, and shared the league's Newcomer of the Year award. [1] |
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| Holt was a second-team All-District 8-4A inclusion his sophomore year, batting .324 for the season. [2] |
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| In 2005, Holt was named defensive player of the year in District 6-4A, [3] and he earned all-district honors in 2006, his senior year. [4] |
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| College career |
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| Holt attended Navarro College in 2007 and 2008. [5] |
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| After transferring to Rice University in 2009, he posted a .348 batting average with 12 home runs and 43 RBIs in 59 games for the Rice Owls. |
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| He also led the Owls with 67 runs scored and shared the team lead with 11 stolen bases. |
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| In the same season, he was named both to the All-NCAA Regional Team and the All-Silver Glove Trophy Series team. [6] |
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| Holt was drafted by the Pittsburgh Pirates with the club's ninth round selection in the 2009 Major League Baseball Draft, one pick before his Rice teammate Ryan Berry. [7] |
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| Professional career |
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| Minor leagues |
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| Holt began his professional career with the Pittsburgh Pirates' short season, Class-A affiliate, the State College Spikes, before advancing to the High-A Bradenton Marauders in 2010. |
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| His 2010 season was cut short due to injury to his medial collateral ligament, which required surgery. [8] |
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| He began the 2011 season with the Pirates' Double-A affiliate, the Altoona Curve. |
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| On July 13, 2011, Holt was named the MVP of the Eastern League All-Star Game after hitting a two-run homer in the ninth inning. [9] |
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| Holt opened 2012 with Altoona and later joined Triple-A Indianapolis Indians. |
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| He was promoted to the Pittsburgh Pirates from the minors as the major league rosters expanded on September 1. |
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| Pittsburgh Pirates (2012) |
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| Holt made his Major League debut on September 1, 2012. |
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| At the time of his promotion, he had hit a .322 average in 102 games with Altoona and .432 in 24 games for Indianapolis. [10] |
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| On September 4, against the Houston Astros, Holt became only the second Pirates player since 1900 to have a four-hit game within his first four career games in the majors. |
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| The only other Pirates player to have a four-hit game so early in his career was Jack Merson, who went 4-for-5 in his second major league game on September 15, 1951. [11] |
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| In 24 games, Holt batted .292 with a triple and 3 RBI. |
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| Boston Red Sox (2013 – present) |
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| 2013 |
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| On December 26, 2012 he was traded to the Boston Red Sox (along with Joel Hanrahan) for Jerry Sands, Stolmy Pimentel, Mark Melancon, and Iván DeJesús, Jr.. [12] |
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| Holt started the 2013 season with the Triple-A Pawtucket Red Sox. |
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| He debuted for Boston after getting called up on July 6 in Anaheim. |
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| In 2013, Holt played in 26 games, hitting .203 with 11 RBI. |
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| Holt received his first championship ring when the Red Sox won the World Series over the St. Louis Cardinals in six games, despite not playing in the postseason. |
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| 2014 |
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| Holt again started 2014 in Triple-A, but was called up May 17 after an injury to Will Middlebrooks and hit leadoff for the rest of the season. |
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| On May 31, 2014, against the Tampa Bay Rays at Fenway Park, Holt hit his first Major League home run. |
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| On June 8, 2014, in order to allow Xander Bogaerts to play 3rd base, Holt moved to left field. |
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| He immediately impressed, making a sensational catch on the warning track to rob Ian Kinsler of a hit. |
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| On July 9, 2014, against the Chicago White Sox, Holt drove in Daniel Nava in the bottom of the 9th inning for the first walk-off hit of his career. [13] |
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| On June 1, 2015, while starting at first base for the first time in his career, Holt went 4-for-4 with four doubles, a walk, and two RBI against the Tampa Bay Rays to win 4 to 0. [14] |
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| By the end of the season, Holt had started games at every position except pitcher and catcher. [15] |