| Mookie Betts | |||||||||||||||
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_(cropped).jpg) Betts with the Los Angeles Dodgers in 2024 | |||||||||||||||
| Los Angeles Dodgers – No. 50 | |||||||||||||||
| Right fielder / Second baseman / Shortstop | |||||||||||||||
| Born: October 7, 1992 Nashville, Tennessee, U.S. | |||||||||||||||
Bats: Right Throws: Right | |||||||||||||||
| MLB debut | |||||||||||||||
| June 29, 2014, for the Boston Red Sox | |||||||||||||||
| MLB statistics (through June 11, 2024) | |||||||||||||||
| Batting average | .295 | ||||||||||||||
| Hits | 1,567 | ||||||||||||||
| Home runs | 262 | ||||||||||||||
| Runs batted in | 796 | ||||||||||||||
| Stolen bases | 181 | ||||||||||||||
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Markus Lynn "Mookie" Betts (born October 7, 1992) is an American professional baseball shortstop for the Los Angeles Dodgers of Major League Baseball (MLB). He has previously played in MLB for the Boston Red Sox. Betts is a eight-time All-Star, a six-time Silver Slugger Award winner, a six-time Gold Glove Award recipient, a two-time World Series champion, and was named the Most Valuable Player in the American League in 2018. He is also second in Wins Above Replacement (WAR) among active position players, behind Mike Trout.[1]
Betts was drafted by the Red Sox in 2011, and made his MLB debut in the 2014 season,[2] splitting time between second base and the outfield. He became the Red Sox center fielder in 2014, before moving to right field in 2016.[3] As a relatively short natural second baseman with a high contact rate and a high level of production when pulling the ball, Betts has been compared to former Red Sox teammate Dustin Pedroia.[4][5] In 2018, he became the first player in MLB history to win the Most Valuable Player, Silver Slugger, Gold Glove, batting title, and World Series all in the same season.[6] After six seasons with Boston, Betts was traded to the Dodgers in 2020, where he won his second World Series in his first season with Los Angeles.
Outside of baseball, Betts is also a professional ten-pin bowler for the Professional Bowlers Association (PBA). He bowled a perfect game in the World Series of Bowling in 2017.[7]
- ^ "Active Leaders & Records for WAR Position Players". baseball-reference.com. Retrieved July 10, 2024.
- ^ "Mookie Betts Statistics and History | Baseball-Reference.com". Baseball-Reference.com. Retrieved May 16, 2016.
- ^ "Mookie Betts » Statistics » Batting » Fielding | FanGraphs Baseball". www.fangraphs.com. Retrieved May 16, 2016.
- ^ "Mookie Betts Is Dustin Pedroia All Over Again | FanGraphs Baseball". www.fangraphs.com. April 7, 2016. Retrieved May 16, 2016.
- ^ "Major League Leaderboards » 2015 » Batters » Zone Contact | FanGraphs Baseball". www.fangraphs.com. Retrieved May 16, 2016.
- ^ "Mookie Betts Makes History By Winning 2018 AL MVP Award To Cap Remarkable Season". NESN.com. November 15, 2018. Retrieved December 30, 2018.
Mookie Betts is the first player to win all of these in the same season: World Series, MVP, Gold Glove, Silver Slugger, batting title.
- ^ Wiseman, Lucas (October 29, 2018). "PBA Member Mookie Betts Is A World Series Champion". www.flobowling.com. Archived from the original on March 29, 2019. Retrieved February 16, 2019.