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Ken Griffey Jr. during his final plate appearance of the 2009 season. Griffey went 1-for-3 with a home run in his regular-season debut on April against the Minnesota Twins. [92] The home run was Griffey's eighth Opening Day home run; [92] as of 2013, he is tied with Frank Robinson and Adam Dunn for first place in this category.
1.18 Baseball Prospectus Internet Baseball Awards AL Rookie of the Year. ... 1995 - Ken Griffey Jr., Randy Johnson, Edgar Martínez, and Tino Martinez; 1996 ...
Ken Griffey Jr., the 1987 first overall draft pick. The first-year player draft, also known as the Rule 4 Draft, is the primary mechanism for assigning amateur baseball players from high schools, colleges, and other amateur baseball clubs to Major League Baseball (MLB) teams.
Two years after he was drafted, the Pirates traded Merchant to Seattle, where he got to meet Ken Griffey Jr. Chicago White Sox' first overall selection Jack McDowell won the 1993 Cy Young Award as Chicago made a League Championship Series appearance that year. The total number of athletes drafted, 1,263, broke a record for the most players ever ...
Thirty-five years after his own memorable MLB debut as a 19-year-old center fielder, there Griffey was offering words of wisdom to another talented teenager whose debut appears imminent — before ...
The 1989 Seattle Mariners season was their 13th since the franchise creation, and the team finished sixth in the American League West, with a record of 73–89 (.451).The Mariners were led by first-year manager Jim Lefebvre and the season was enlivened by the arrival of nineteen-year-old Ken Griffey Jr., the first overall pick of the 1987 draft.
Ken Griffey Sr. and Ken Griffey Jr. also were courtside at the Lakers’ downtown arena to witness the same history they made in Major League Baseball. The two sluggers played 51 games together ...
Throughout his 22-year MLB career, Ken Griffey Jr. did a lot of damage to opposing pitchers. Still, that doesn’t mean there weren’t a few guys who made it tough for “The Kid.”