Oakland Athletics
The Oakland Athletics selected Pinder in the second round of the 2013 Major League Baseball draft. [5] He made his professional debut for the Vermont Lake Monsters that year and spent the whole season there,batting .200 with three home runs and eight RBIs in 42 games. In 2014,he played in 94 games with the Stockton Ports,hitting .288 with 13 home runs and 55 RBIs. In 2015,he played for the Midland RockHounds where he slashed .317/.361/.486 with 15 home runs and 86 RBIs in 117 games. Pinder won the Texas League Player of the Year Award that season. [6] After the season,he played in the Arizona Fall League. He began the 2016,season with the Nashville Sounds.
Pinder was promoted to the Athletics on August 17,2016. [7] Prior to his promotion,he was batting .258 with 14 home runs and 51 RBIs in 107 games for the Sounds. [8] He made his major league debut on August 20. Pinder spent the remainder of 2016 with Oakland after his promotion,batting .235 with one home run in 22 games. In 2017,he began the season with Nashville,but was recalled on April 16 for the rest of the season. In 87 games for the Athletics,he slashed .238/.292/.457 with 15 home runs and 42 RBIs. In 2019,Pinder hit .240 with 13 home runs and 47 RBI in 124 games. In 2020 for the Athletics,Pinder slashed .232/.295/.393 with 2 home runs in only 61 plate appearances. [9] In 2021,he slashed .243/.300/.411 with 6 home runs and 27 RBIs in 75 games.
On July 12,2022,Pinder hit a grand slam off of Texas Rangers reliever Kolby Allard as part of an 8-run 12th inning in the 14-7 victory. [10] Two weeks later,on July 26,Pinder hit another grand slam,this time off of Houston Astros starter Luís García,that helped propel the A's to a 5-3 victory. [11] In 2022,he slashed .235/.263/.385 with 12 home runs and 42 RBIs in 111 games. He became a free agent following the season.
