| Allen Craig | |||||||||||||||
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 Craig playing for the Boston Red Sox in 2014 | |||||||||||||||
| Outfielder / First baseman | |||||||||||||||
| Born: July 18, 1984 Mission Viejo, California, U.S. | |||||||||||||||
Batted: Right Threw: Right | |||||||||||||||
| MLB debut | |||||||||||||||
| April 8, 2010, for the St. Louis Cardinals | |||||||||||||||
| Last MLB appearance | |||||||||||||||
| October 4, 2015, for the Boston Red Sox | |||||||||||||||
| MLB statistics | |||||||||||||||
| Batting average | .276 | ||||||||||||||
| Home runs | 59 | ||||||||||||||
| Runs batted in | 296 | ||||||||||||||
| Stats at Baseball Reference | |||||||||||||||
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Allen Thomas Craig (born July 18, 1984) is an American former professional baseball outfielder and first baseman. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the St. Louis Cardinals and Boston Red Sox. The Cardinals drafted Craig from the University of California, Berkeley in 2006, and he made his Major League debut with them in 2010.
Each season in the minor leagues from 2007 to 2009, Craig finished with a batting average of over .300 with at least 20 home runs. A .306 career hitter in MLB through 2013, he increased his production with runners in scoring position (RISP). In 2012, he posted a .400 batting average with RISP. The next season, he raised that figure to .454, the third-highest average of all time.
Craig has appeared in two World Series and in both made history. In the 2011 World Series, he tied a record by collecting three hits that drove in the game-winning run. In 2013, he became the first player to score a game-winning run on an obstruction call.
He is currently an Advisor to Baseball Operations for the San Diego Padres.[1]
- ^ "Padres Front Office Directory | San Diego Padres". MLB.com. Retrieved April 17, 2023.