Married his wife Emily in November 2023...Father-in-law is former big-leaguer Phil Plantier. Phil played 12 seasons in Major League Baseball, appearing in 1,217 games between 1995-2006 for the Astros, Tigers, Angels, Padres, Rangers, Cubs and Twins. Has also spent time as a Major League manager and coach including as the Angels manager from 2022-23...Brother Kyle was selected by the Dodgers in the 2022 Draft...Attended Poway (Calif.) HS...Underwent UCL reconstruction surgery (Tommy John) as a junior in 2014.
2023
Spent most of the season with Triple-A Toledo, slashing .326/.400/.543 (110-for-337) with 22 doubles, three triples, 15 home runs and 58 RBI in 87 games...Appeared in 41 games with the Tigers, batting .200/.306/.316 (19-for-95) with three doubles, one triple, two homers and 10 RBI...Sidelined from 3/30 (retroactive to 3/27) until 4/7 with a left oblique strain...Made his Tigers debut on 4/13 at TOR, going 0-for-2 with a sacrifice fly...Launched a pinch-hit, three-run home run on 4/29 (G2) vs. BAL, the first pinch-hit homer of his career...Posted his first multi-hit game of the season on 5/31 vs. TEX going 2-for-4 with a run scored...Named International League Player of the Week for the week ending 8/20 going 11-for-21 with two doubles, four home runs and nine RBI in six games with the Mud Hens...Voted International League Player of the Month for August after hitting .402/.509/.761 with eight doubles, two triples, seven homers and 24 RBI in 25 games with Toledo...Hit a pinch-hit, three-run round-tripper in the fourth inning on 9/27 vs. KC.
2022
Combined to play in 102 games between Baltimore and Triple A Norfolk in 2022... Tied Norfolk’s franchise record with eight RBI on April 15 vs. Scranton/Wilkes-Barre...went 3x6 and hit his first career grand slam in the second inning... Hit .364/.434/.545 with six doubles, two home runs and 17 RBI in 17 games with Norfolk in April... Drove in a career-high three runs on June 11 at Kansas City, hitting a go-ahead, three-run homer in the sixth inning.
2021
Slugged his first career home run in the third inning of the final game of the season on 10/3 at TOR, a solo shot to the upper deck in left field off LHP Hyun Jin Ryu...His home run traveled 442 ft., making it the furthest first career home run by an Oriole in the Statcast era (since 2015); it’s tied for the ninth-longest first career home run in MLB since 2015...Collected his first RBI on 9/30 vs. BOS with a two-run single in the sixth inning...Recalled from Triple-A Norfolk on 9/28, his second stint with the O’s...Recalled from Triple-A Norfolk on 5/28 and made his MLB debut on 5/29 at CWS (G1); recorded a ground-rule double in the second inning for his first career hit, becoming the sixth player in MLB history to make his Major League debut and record a hit on his birthday...Slashed .227/.305/.392 (91-for-401) with 16 home runs, 18 doubles, 45 runs scored, 52 RBI and 42 walks in 111 games for Triple-A Norfolk; his 16 homers led the Tides.
2020
Acquired by the Orioles from the Colorado Rockies on 8/30...Spent the beginning of the season at the Rockies Alternate Training Site.
2019
Appeared in a career-high 130 games with Double-A Hartford ... Named the Eastern League Player of the Month for August … led all Eastern League players in home runs (eight), RBI (24), slugging percentage (.609), OPS (.972), extra-base hits (19) and total bases (67), and tied for the league lead in doubles (11) ... Batted .269 (50-for-186) with nine home runs in 52 games in the second half ... Added to the 40-man roster on Nov. 20.
2018
Batted .328 (124-for-378) with High-A Lancaster, the second-highest average in the league ... Batted .359 (85-for-237) with 17 doubles, nine home runs, 44 RBI and 26 walks in the second half of the season ... Named to the 2018 All-Arizona Fall League Team … led the AFL in hitting (.426), on-base percentage (.535), slugging (.593) and OPS (1.128) … began the AFL season with a 10-game hitting streak … the AFL's only .400 hitter, also finished third in the league with 20 RBI.
2017
Spent much of the season with Low-A Asheville, other than a brief rehab stint with Short-Season Boise ... Named the South Atlantic League Player of the Month for August, after batting .379 (44-for-116) with 10doubles, three triples, one home run and 23 RBI in 29 games … also named the SAL Player of the Week, Aug. 21-27, after batting .500 with six doubles in eight games.
2016
Missed a majority of the season with a hamstring injury.
2015
Rookie Level Grand Junction's starting third baseman in his first professional season ... Batted .265 (50-for-189) in 53 games … recorded 15 doubles, which ranked second-most on the team.