Gary Sheffield Baseball player

Gary Antonian Sheffield (born November 18, 1968) is an American retired Major League Baseball outfielder. He played with eight teams in the major leagues from 1988 to 2009. He currently works as a sports agent.For most of his career, Sheffield played right field, though he has also played left field, third base, shortstop, and a handful of games at first base. He played for the Milwaukee Brewers, San Diego Padres, Florida Marlins, Los Angeles Dodgers, Atlanta Braves, New York Yankees, Detroit Tigers, and the New York Mets. Sheffield was a first-round pick of the Brewers, who selected him sixth overall in the 1986 amateur draft after a standout prep career at Hillsborough High School in Tampa. He bats and throws right-handed.At the start of the 2010 season, Sheffield ranked second among all active players in walks (1,475), third in runs (1,636), fourth in RBIs (1,676), fifth in hits (2,689) and home runs (509), and sixth in hit by pitches (135). Sheffield hit his 500th home run on April 17, 2009.He is the uncle of 2014 Gatorade National Baseball Player of the Year, Justus Sheffield. After retirement, he started to work as an agent. His current clients include Josh Banks and Jason Grilli.

Personal facts

Gary Sheffield
Birth dateNovember 18, 1968
Birth place
Tampa Florida

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Baseball player

Career startSeptember 15, 1988
Career endSeptember 30, 2009
Awards
1998 Major League Baseball All-Star Game
1996 Major League Baseball All-Star Game
Major League Baseball All-Star Game
2003 Major League Baseball All-Star Game
Silver Slugger Award
Major League Baseball Comeback Player of the Year Award
1993 Major League Baseball All-Star Game
World Series
List of Major League Baseball batting champions
batting sideRight
former teams
Milwaukee Brewers
New York Mets
position
Third baseman
Outfielder
teams
Atlanta Braves
Detroit Tigers
Los Angeles Dodgers
Miami Marlins
Milwaukee Brewers
New York Mets
San Diego Padres
New York Yankees
throwing sideRight

Gary Sheffield on Wikipedia

External resources

  1. http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2005/baseball/mlb/08/05/sheffield.mouth/index.html