In 2017, Rosario became the Twins’ everyday left fielder and emerged into one of the AL’s best hitters. 269 batting average, 10 home runs, and 32 RBI in 92 games played. He was brought back up towards the end of the season, and finished the year with a. After a slow start and the emergence of both Robbie Grossman and Max Kepler, Rosario saw his playing time dwindle ultimately leading to his demotion to Triple-A. With the retirement of Torii Hunter and the Twins' trade of Aaron Hicks, Rosario entered 2016 as the Twins' projected everyday left fielder. Rosario finished his rookie campaign with a. Despite being called up a month into the season, Rosario led all of baseball in triples with 15, and was second in outfield assists with 16, just one behind Avisail García of the Chicago White Sox. Rosario played in 122 games for the Twins, sharing outfield duties with Torii Hunter, Aaron Hicks, and fellow prospect Byron Buxton. Leading off the bottom of the 3rd inning, Rosario swung at the first pitch he saw from Oakland Athletics starter Scott Kazmir, and hit an opposite-field home run, becoming the 115th player in major league history to hit a home run in his first at-bat.
Rosario made his major league debut on May 6, 2015. He also played several seasons in the Puerto Rican Winter League, and played in the Arizona Fall League in 20. He advanced through the farm system of the Twins, first reaching Double-A in 2013 and Triple-A in 2015. Rosario first played in Minor League Baseball in 2010, in the Gulf Coast League. Rosario with the New Britain Rock Cats in 2013 Rosario was subsequently selected by the Minnesota Twins in the fourth round of the 2010 MLB draft. Rosario was scouted by Hector Otero, who worked for the Minnesota Twins at the time, as the organization's lead scout for South Florida and Puerto Rico. He made his major league debut in 2015, hitting a home run in his first at bat, on the first pitch, off of Scott Kazmir of the Oakland Athletics.Įddie Rosario was born to parents Eddie Sr. After the 2013 season, Rosario received a 50-game suspension for using a banned substance, which he served at the start of the 2014 season. Rosario represented Puerto Rico in the 20 editions of the World Baseball Classic, winning a silver medal in both. He has previously played in MLB for the Twins and Cleveland Indians. Rosario was selected by the Minnesota Twins in the fourth round of the 2010 MLB draft.
#EDDIE ROSARIO PROFESSIONAL#
(born September 28, 1991) is a Puerto Rican professional baseball left fielder for the Atlanta Braves of Major League Baseball (MLB). Both of the pitches were middle-in.Eddie Manuel Rosario, Jr.
There was a walk to d’Arnaud, then the broken-bat double, and I just felt that he had enough stuff to get through that and to keep going.”īuehler jumped ahead of Rosario with two strikes, a 93.1-mph cut-fastball that Rosario swung through and a 93.3-mph cutter that Rosario fouled off.
“I just felt right there, the way Walker was throwing, I expected him to keep going,” Roberts said.
#EDDIE ROSARIO SERIES#
Up stepped the left-handed-hitting Rosario, who had all but locked up MVP honors with a sizzling series that included a four-hit effort, including a walk-off RBI single, in the Braves’ 5-4 Game 2 victory and a four-hit, two-homer, four-RBI effort in a 9-2 Game 4 victory.ĭodgers left-hander Alex Vesia, who had thrown three scoreless innings with five strikeouts and no walks in four previous NLCS games, was warm in the bullpen, but manager Dave Roberts elected to stick with Buehler. 247 with five homers and 28 RBIs in 109 games this season, didn’t pose too much of a threat.īut it was the Dodgers who were up Snit’s Creek.Īdrianza poked a broken-bat double into the right-field corner, his first hit in 22 days, to advance d’Arnaud to third. Southern California native Tyler Matzek shut down the Dodgers’ best chance to come back in the seventh as the Braves advance to the World Series.īraves pinch-hitters had been futile in the first five games of the NLCS, going 0 for 11 with six strikeouts, and Adrianza, who hit. Dodgers Dodgers’ World Series championship reign ends in NLCS loss to Braves
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