Bryan Reynolds (baseball)

Bryan Patrick Reynolds (born January 27, 1995) is an American professional baseball outfielder for the Pittsburgh Pirates of Major League Baseball (MLB). Reynolds played college baseball for the Vanderbilt Commodores, and the San Francisco Giants selected him with the 59th pick in the 2016 Major League Baseball draft. The Giants traded him to the Pirates in 2018.

Bryan Reynolds
Pittsburgh Pirates – No. 10
Outfielder
Born: (1995-01-27) January 27, 1995
Baltimore, Maryland
Bats: Switch Throws: Right
MLB debut
April 20, 2019, for the Pittsburgh Pirates
MLB statistics
(through July 31, 2020)
Batting average.303
Home runs16
Runs batted in68
Teams

Amateur career

Reynolds attended Brentwood High School in Brentwood, Tennessee and played college baseball at Vanderbilt University.[1]

As a freshman at Vanderbilt in 2014, Reynolds played in 72 games and hit .338/.395/.480 with four home runs and 54 runs batted in (RBI).[2][3] He was a member of Vanderbilt's College World Series championship.[4] As a sophomore, he played in 72 games, hitting .318/.388/.462 with five home runs and 49 RBI.[5] After the 2015 season, he played collegiate summer baseball with the Orleans Firebirds of the Cape Cod Baseball League.[6] As a junior, he hit .330/.461/.603 with 13 home runs and 57 RBI.

Professional career

San Francisco Giants

Reynolds was drafted by the San Francisco Giants in the second round of the 2016 MLB draft. He signed, and was assigned to the Salem-Keizer Volcanoes, where he made his professional debut. He was later promoted to the Augusta GreenJackets. In 56 total games between Salem-Keizer and Augusta, Reynolds batted .313 with six home runs, 38 RBIs, and an .847 OPS. He spent 2017 with the San Jose Giants where he posted a .312 batting average with ten home runs and 63 RBIs in 121 games.[7] He participated in the 2017 All-Star Futures Game.

Pittsburgh Pirates

On January 15, 2018, the Giants traded Reynolds, Kyle Crick, and $500,000 of international bonus slot money to the Pittsburgh Pirates in exchange for Andrew McCutchen and cash considerations.[8] MLB.com ranked Reynolds as Pittsburgh's sixth best prospect going into the 2018 season.[9] Reynolds began 2018 with the Pirates Double-A team the Altoona Curve. He was placed on the disabled list retroactive to April 9, underwent hand surgery in mid-April, and was activated on May 29.[10][11] Reynolds played in 88 games for the Curve driving in 46 runs along with a .302 batting average. In 2019 he started the season with the Pirates Triple-A team the Indianapolis Indians.

On April 20, his contract was selected and he was recalled to the major league roster for the first time.[12] He made his major league debut that afternoon versus the San Francisco Giants and recorded his first career hit, a single, off Derek Holland. Since then, Reynolds' hitting streak has reached 8 games and on April 30, he hit his first major league home run off veteran Texas Rangers' closer Jesse Chavez. Reynolds finished the season fourth in National League Rookie of the Year voting, playing in 134 games.

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References
  1. "Brentwood's Reynolds to play baseball at VU". July 5, 2012. Archived from the original on May 7, 2016. Retrieved June 7, 2016.
  2. "Vandy freshman Reynolds has big impact".
  3. "Bryan Reynolds leads key freshmen for Vanderbilt".
  4. "BHS star Reynolds has played all over the field for Vanderbilt". March 29, 2016.
  5. "Vanderbilt's Bryan Reynolds finds groove in postseason".
  6. "#26 Bryan Reynolds - Profile". pointstreak.com. Retrieved September 25, 2019.
  7. "Bryan Reynolds Stats, Highlights, Bio - MiLB.com Stats - The Official Site of Minor League Baseball". MiLB.com. Retrieved November 19, 2017.
  8. Heneghan, Kelsie (January 15, 2018). "Bucs acquire Reynolds, Crick for McCutchen". milb.com. Retrieved January 15, 2018.
  9. "New No. 1 Keller leads Pirates Top 30 Prospects list". MLB.com. Retrieved February 22, 2018.
  10. "Outfield prospect Bryan Reynolds to have surgery on left hand".
  11. https://www.piratesprospects.com/2018/05/dario-agrazal-placed-on-disabled-list-bryan-reynolds-returns-to-altoona.html
  12. "Pirates' Bryan Reynolds: Gets call to big leagues". CBS Sports. April 20, 2019. Retrieved April 20, 2019.
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