Name Casey Gillaspie Role Baseball player | Career start 2014 | |
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Current team Tampa Bay Rays (First baseman) Profiles | ||
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Casey Harold Gillaspie (born January 25, 1993) is an American professional baseball first baseman in the Chicago White Sox organization. He played college baseball at Wichita State. He was drafted by the Tampa Bay Rays in the first round of the 2014 Major League Baseball draft, and traded to the White Sox in 2017.
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Career
Gillaspie attended Millard North High School in Omaha, Nebraska. As a senior, he was the Nebraska Gatorade Baseball Player of the Year.
As a freshman at Wichita State University in 2012, he started 57 of 59 games at either first base or designated hitter. He finished the year hitting .274 with eight home runs. He started all 66 games as a sophomore in 2013, hitting .299 with 11 home runs. After the season, he played in the Cape Cod League, where he led in home runs with eight. In 2012 Gillaspie played in the Northwoods League, for the Eau Claire Express, where he broke the team single season HR record, with 12. As a junior in 2014, he hit .389/.520/.682 with 15 home runs in 59 games.
The Tampa Bay Rays selected Gillaspie in the first round, 20th overall, of the 2014 Major League Baseball Draft. He signed on June 10 and was assigned to the Hudson Valley Renegades, where he posted a .262 batting average with 7 home runs and 42 RBI. Gillaspie began the 2015 season with the Bowling Green Hot Rods, was promoted to the Charlotte Stone Crabs in June. He ended 2015 with a .253 batting average, with 17 home runs and 48 RBI's. In 2016, Gillaspie spent time with both the Montgomery Biscuits and the Durham Bulls, where he posted a combined .284 batting average with 18 home runs and 64 RBI between the two clubs.
On July 27, 2017, the Rays traded Gillaspie to the Chicago White Sox for Dan Jennings.
Personal life
His brother, Conor Gillaspie, also played college baseball at Wichita State and currently is on the San Francisco Giants.