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Brett Phillips | ||||||||||||||
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Tampa Bay Rays – No. 35 | ||||||||||||||
Outfielder | ||||||||||||||
Born: Seminole, Florida | May 30, 1994||||||||||||||
Bats: Left Throws: Right | ||||||||||||||
MLB debut | ||||||||||||||
June 5, 2017, for the Milwaukee Brewers | ||||||||||||||
MLB statistics (through 2021 season) | ||||||||||||||
Batting average | .202 | |||||||||||||
Home runs | 23 | |||||||||||||
Runs batted in | 78 | |||||||||||||
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Brett Maverick Phillips (born May 30,1994) is an American professional baseball outfielder for the Tampa Bay Rays of Major League Baseball (MLB). He previously played in MLB for the Milwaukee Brewers and Kansas City Royals.
Phillips attended Seminole High School in Seminole,Florida. He graduated in 2012. [1]
Phillips was drafted by the Houston Astros in the sixth round of the 2012 MLB draft. [2] He signed with the Astros rather than play college baseball at North Carolina State University. [3]
In 2012,Phillips made his professional debut with the Gulf Coast Astros of the Rookie-level Gulf Coast League,hitting .251 in 54 games. He played in 41 games in 2013 between the Greeneville Astros of the Rookie-level Appalachian League and Quad Cities River Bandits of the Class A Midwest League,hitting .242/.347/.331 in 157 at-bats.
Phillips started 2014 back with Quad Cities and was promoted to the Lancaster JetHawks of the Class A-Advanced California League after posting a .883 on-base plus slugging (OPS) and 13 home runs in 103 games. [4] He finished the year hitting .310/.375/.529 with 17 home runs and was named the Astros' Minor League Player of the Year after the season. [5] [6]
On July 30,2015,the Astros traded Phillips,Domingo Santana,Josh Hader,and Adrian Houser to the Milwaukee Brewers for Carlos Gómez and Mike Fiers. [7] He finished the season with the Biloxi Shuckers of the Class AA Southern League. [8] The Brewers invited Phillips to spring training,where he was to compete to be the Brewers center fielder for the 2016 season. [9] However,he strained an oblique muscle and was sent to minor league camp before he could appear in a game. [8] The Brewers opted to assign Phillips to Biloxi to start the 2016 season. [8] [10] The Brewers added him to their 40-man roster after the season. [11] He started the 2017 season with the Colorado Springs Sky Sox of the Class AAA Pacific Coast League.
On June 5,2017,Phillips was called up to the Brewers to make his MLB debut. In limited action he hit .276 with 4 homers and 12 RBI,and set a Statcast record with a 104 miles per hour (167 km/h) throw against the Pittsburgh Pirates to put David Freese out at home plate.[ citation needed ]
Phillips began the 2018 season in the minors and only saw 24 plate appearances with the Brewers,hitting .182 with no homers and 4 RBIs.[ citation needed ]
On July 27,2018,Phillips and Jorge López were traded to the Kansas City Royals in exchange for Mike Moustakas. [12] In 2019,Phillips slashed .138/.247/.262 with 2 home runs and 6 RBI in 30 games. [13] From August 9,2020 to August 27,2020,Phillips only received 6 plate appearances for the Royals. [14]
On August 27,2020,the Royals traded Phillips to the Tampa Bay Rays in exchange for Lucius Fox. [15] He was activated on September 4,making his Rays debut as a pinch-runner in a 5-4 victory over the Miami Marlins. [16] On October 24,in Game 4 of the 2020 World Series against the Los Angeles Dodgers,Phillips recorded his first career postseason hit,a walk-off single in the bottom of the ninth inning that yielded two runs (one coming on an error),giving the Rays an 8–7 victory. [17] He became the first player since Kirk Gibson in 1988 to have a walk-off hit with two outs with his team trailing in the World Series. [18]
On July 2,2021,Phillips made his first career pitching appearance in a blowout loss against the Toronto Blue Jays,and pitched one inning,allowing one run on an RBI single to Santiago Espinal. [19]
Between July 29 and August 11,2021,Phillips hit three grand slams in only 19 plate appearances,second only to Jim Northrup who did so in 14 appearances in 1968. Then on August 16,2021 he hit an inside-the-park home run,and the combination of three slams plus one inside-the-park home run in only 19 days broke a record held by Babe Ruth,who accomplished the same feat in 36 days in 1929. [20]
Phillips is married to Brianna Hillman Phillips,the daughter of Miami Marlins third base coach Trey Hillman. [21] [22] He is a Christian. [23]
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