Jack Murphy #45

Full name JOHN JOSEPH MURPHY (Jack)...Single... Twitter: @JackMurphy219... Attended Bartow High School in Bartow, Florida…Played college ball at Princeton University for three seasons and holds the top career fielding percentage (.989) of any Princeton Tiger…Named first-team All-Ivy selection in 2008 and 2009 with the Tigers…Originally selected by Toronto in the 31st round of the 2009 First-Year Player Draft... Played five seasons of off-season baseball in the Australian Baseball League; led the Canberra Cavalry to the 2013 ABL Championship and Asia Series title, becoming the first team from Australia to win the Asia Series... Avid Boston Red Sox fan growing up (dad is from CT)...Favorite players were Ken Caminiti and Jason Varitek.

2017

Spent second season in the Dodgers organization, mostly at Triple-A Oklahoma City...Was with AA Tulsa, July 1-12.. Appeared in 43 games at catcher and one game at first base for Oklahoma City.

2012

Spent the majority of the season at Dunedin (A) appearing in 86 games for the Blue Jays... 84 games came as a catcher, with one as a 1B and one at DH...Hit .251 vs. RH pitchers and .172 vs. LH pitchers with Dunedin...Appeared in eight games with New Hampshire (AA) in July, posting a double and two home runs... Hit .438 vs. righties and .125 vs lefties with the Fisher Cats...Overall threw out 38.2% of potential base stealers (29-76).

2011

Played 50 games with Lansing and three at New Hampshire (AA)... Posted 11 doubles and had three home runs for the 3rd consecutive season... Played one game at 1B for the first time in his career.

2010

Spent the majority of the season at short-season Auburn, while adding two games at Lansing (A) in the Midwest League...Tossed out 46% of would be bast stealers... Had 12 extra-base hits in 37 contests.

2009

Split time between the Gulf Coast club and Auburn in his first professional season... Had 14 extra-base hits in 47 contests.