| Buck Coats | ||||||||||||||
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 Coats playing for the Lansing Lugnuts in 2003 | ||||||||||||||
| Outfielder | ||||||||||||||
| Born:June 9, 1982 Fort Benning, Georgia | ||||||||||||||
Batted: Left Threw: Right | ||||||||||||||
| MLB debut | ||||||||||||||
| August 22, 2006, for the Chicago Cubs | ||||||||||||||
| Last appearance | ||||||||||||||
| April 11, 2008, for the Toronto Blue Jays | ||||||||||||||
| Career statistics | ||||||||||||||
| Batting average | .193 | |||||||||||||
| Home runs | 1 | |||||||||||||
| Runs batted in | 3 | |||||||||||||
| Teams | ||||||||||||||
Medals
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Buck Coats (born June 9,1982) is a former Major League Baseball (MLB) outfielder.
Coats was drafted in the in the 18th round (523rd overall) of the 2000 MLB Draft by the Chicago Cubs. [1]
Coats made his Major League debut for the Cubs on August 22,2006 against the Philadelphia Phillies. [2] After the 2006 season,he finished batting .167 with one home run and one RBI. [3]
Coats was then traded to the Reds for a player to be named later. Buck finished hitting .206 and two RBIs,a personal best. [3] The Reds then dealt him to the Toronto Blue Jays for right-handed pitcher Justin James. [4]
Coats only played eight games for the Toronto Blue Jays before being sent back down to the minors. He finished the season batting .200,with one hit,and a single stolen base. [3]
Coats signed a minor league contract with the Kansas City Royals on November 25,2009. [5] Coats was traded to the Chicago White Sox organization and assigned to the AA Birmingham Barons on May 4,2010. [6] Coats hit .338 with two home runs and 8 RBI in 68 at-bats with the Barons before being promoted to the Triple-A Charlotte Knights. [7]
On December 15,2010,Coats signed a minor league contract with the Washington Nationals. [8] Due to injury,he was limited to only nine games with the Double-A Harrisburg Senators,batting .261 with 3 RBI. [7]
In 2015,Coats,along with Alexis Gómez,were named co-hitting coaches of the Orem Owlz,the minor league rookie affiliate of the Los Angeles Angels. [9]
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