Batting average .261 On-base percentage .343 Height 1.91 m Hits 41 Role Baseball Player | Run batted in 31 Name Greg Bird Home runs 11 Slugging percentage .529 Weight 99.8 kg | |
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Current team New York Yankees (#31 / Infielder) Similar People Aaron Judge, Luis Severino, Gary Sanchez, Rob Refsnyder, Eric Jagielo | ||
Day in the life greg bird
Gregory Paul Bird (born November 9, 1992) is an American professional baseball first baseman for the New York Yankees of Major League Baseball (MLB). He made his MLB debut on August 13, 2015.
Contents
- Day in the life greg bird
- Greg bird rehab update
- Amateur career
- Minor leagues
- 2015 Rookie season
- 2016
- 2017
- Personal life
- References
Greg bird rehab update
Amateur career
Bird attended Grandview High School in Aurora, Colorado, where he played for the baseball team as a catcher and formed a battery with pitcher Kevin Gausman. Bird was named the Colorado Gatorade Baseball Player of the Year as a senior. He committed to attend the University of Arkansas to play college baseball for the Arkansas Razorbacks.
Minor leagues
Bird was drafted by the New York Yankees in the fifth round of the 2011 Major League Baseball Draft. Bird signed with the Yankees, receiving a $1.1 million signing bonus and bypassing his commitment to Arkansas. He was drafted as a catcher but was moved to first base.
Bird made his professional debut for the Gulf Coast Yankees in 2011. He finished the season playing in four games, going 1 for 12. In 2012, he played in only 28 games due to injuries. He finished the season hitting .337/.450/.494 with two home runs. Bird started the 2013 season with the Charleston RiverDogs of the Class A South Atlantic League. He finished the season, hitting .288/.428/.511 with 20 home runs and a minor league leading 107 walks. He won the Kevin Lawn Award as the Yankees Minor League Player of the Year.
In 2014, Bird began the season with the Tampa Yankees of the Class A-Advanced Florida State League, where he batted .277 with seven home runs and 32 runs batted in before he was promoted tor the Trenton Thunder of the Class AA Eastern League, where he batted for a .253/.379/.558 triple slash to go along with 7 homers and 11 RBI to create a full season equaling .271/.376/.472 slash line, 14 homers, and 43 RBI in 102 games. After the season, the Yankees assigned Bird to the Scottsdale Scorpions of the Arizona Fall League (AFL). He hit a 450-foot (140 m) home run during the AFL Fall Stars Game. Bird led the AFL with six home runs was named the AFL Most Valuable Player.
Bird started the 2015 season with Double-A Trenton and was promoted to the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders of the Class AAA International League during the season. In May, he experienced a shoulder injury.
2015: Rookie season
On August 13, 2015, the Yankees announced that they would promote Bird to the major leagues, serving as a backup to Mark Teixeira at first base and Alex Rodriguez at designated hitter. He made his major league debut that night, going 0-5. He collected his first hit on August 15, a single off of Toronto Blue Jays reliever LaTroy Hawkins. Teixeira injured his leg during a hit-by-pitch on August 17, which was later diagnosed as a season-ending shin fracture. Bird became the Yankees' starting first baseman for the rest of 2015.
On August 19, Bird hit his first two MLB home runs off of Minnesota Twins pitcher Ervin Santana. On September 7, Bird hit a go-ahead 3-run home run in a game against the Baltimore Orioles. On September 22, Bird hit a game winning three-run home run against the Toronto Blue Jays in the top of the tenth inning. He finished the season with a .261 batting average and a .343 on-base percentage. In 46 games and 157 at-bats, Bird hit 11 home runs with 31 RBIs.
2016
Bird suffered a recurrence of his right shoulder injury during the 2015-16 offseason, which was diagnosed as a torn labrum. Bird underwent successful surgery, and was ruled out for the entire 2016 MLB season. After not playing during the regular season, Bird recovered from his shoulder injury in time to be assigned to the Scottsdale Scorpions of the Arizona Fall League in October 2016.
2017
In spring training, Bird showed a full recovery from his season-ending shoulder surgery, hitting eight home runs, tied for the most with Washington Nationals outfielder Bryce Harper. He also led the league in extra-base hits (16), on-base percentage (.556), slugging percentage (1.098) and OPS (1.654). During an exhibition game against the Atlanta Braves, Bird hit the first home run in SunTrust Park. On May 2, Bird was placed on the 10-day disabled list due to a bruised right ankle. In July, Bird was diagnosed with an injury to the os trigonum in his right foot. On July 18, he had surgery to remove the os trigonum bone. On August 26, Bird was activated of the 60-day DL and went 1-for-2 with 2 walks in a game that afternoon.
Personal life
Bird was born in Memphis, Tennessee. His family moved to Colorado when he was 10 years old. He has a hairless cat that is related to the cat that portrayed Mr. Bigglesworth in Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery.