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| Greg Vaughn | |
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| Left fielder / Designated hitter | |
| Born: July 3, 1965 Sacramento, California |
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| Batted: Right | Threw: Right |
| MLB debut | |
| August 10, 1989 for the Milwaukee Brewers | |
| Last MLB appearance | |
| July 10, 2003 for the Colorado Rockies | |
| Career statistics | |
| Batting average | .242 |
| Home runs | 355 |
| Runs batted in | 1,072 |
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Gregory Lamont Vaughn (born July 3, 1965) is a former Major League Baseball left fielder and right-handed batter who played for the Milwaukee Brewers (1989-96), San Diego Padres (1996-98), Cincinnati Reds (1999), Tampa Bay Devil Rays (2000-02) and Colorado Rockies (2003). He was born in Sacramento, California, where he attended Kennedy High School. He then played baseball at the University of Miami. He is the cousin of fellow former Major Leaguer, Mo Vaughn.
Vaughn was selected by the Brewers in the first round (4th pick) of the 1986 amateur draft. A slugger whose batting average dropped below .250 as often as rising above it, he compensated with excellent power. He had three seasons with at least 100 runs batted in, and four with 30 or more home runs - including the legendary 1998 season, when he hit 50 to finish 4th in the major leagues behind Ken Griffey, Jr., Sammy Sosa, and Mark McGwire, who set the home run record that season. In 1999, he became the only player in major league history to be traded after a 50-homer season when the Padres traded him to the Cincinnati Reds. With the Reds in 1999, he hit 45 homers and became the second player in major league history to hit 40 or more homers in consecutive seasons with two different teams (one year after Andrés Galarraga became the first).
Throughout his career, Vaughn batted .242 with 355 home runs, 1072 RBI, 1017 runs, 1475 hits, 284 doubles, 23 triples and 121 stolen bases in 1731 games.
For his career, Vaughn has one of the worst strikeout-walk ratios of all time. His propensity to strike out routinely prevented him from consideration as one of his generation's elite players, despite enormous production numbers. Largely because of his propensity to strike out, he was designated ESPN's Least valuable player (LVP) of the Half-Year during the 2002 season,[1].
See also
- MLB players who have hit 30 or more home runs before the All-Star break
- 50 home run club
- Top 500 home run hitters of all time
- List of Major League Baseball players with 1000 runs
- List of Major League Baseball players with 1000 RBI
- Major League Baseball hitters with three home runs in one game
- Tampa Bay Devil Rays all-time roster
References
- ^ "Handing out halfway hardware". ESPN.com. http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/print?id=1403014&type=columnist. Retrieved 2008-09-08.
External links
- Career statistics and player information from Baseball-Reference, or Fangraphs, or The Baseball Cube
- Simply-Baseball-Notebook.com: Baseball is Fun Again for Vaughn
| Preceded by Darren Daulton |
NL Comeback Player of the Year 1998 |
Succeeded by Rickey Henderson |
| Preceded by Vladimir Guerrero |
National League Player of the Month September 1999 |
Succeeded by Vladimir Guerrero |
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