Seth William Brown was originally signed by A's scout Jim Coffman…graduated from North Medford (Ore.) High School…played collegiately and Linn-Benton (Ore.) Community College and Lewis-Clark State College (Ida.).
2019
Made his Triple-A and Major League debut in 2019… was batting .297 with 37 home runs and 104 RBI in 112 games with Las Vegas when he was selected by Oakland Aug. 26…went on to hit .293 with no home runs and 13 RBI in 26 games with the A's…batted .417 with nine RBI and a 1.073 OPS over his first 10 games, .179 with four RBI and a .580 OPS over his final 16 contests…made 16 of his 17 starts in games in which the opponent started a right-handed pitcher…hit .311 (19-for-61) with all 10 of his extra-base hits, all seven of his walks and 12 of his 13 RBI against righties, .214 (3-for-14) against left-handers… had a .900 OPS against righties, .429 against lefties…batted .300 with runners in scoring position, including .455 with RISP and two outs…hit .400 when leading off an inning…started 16 games in left field and one at first base…did not commit an error in 23 games overall in the outfield or four at first base…had two assists as an outfielder… was 1-for-6 (.167) with a double, RBI and four strikeouts in six pinch-hitting appearances…made nine starts hitting fifth, seven batting sixth and one hitting eighth…made his Major League debut with a start in left field on Aug. 26 at Kansas City and went 2-for-6 with a RBI…singled in the second inning off Brad Keller for his first ML hit and had a RBI single in his next at-bat in the third inning for his first RBI…had a career-high four hits Aug. 29 at Kansas City in his fourth big league game…became the first Athletic with a four-hit game before his fifth career game since Doug Jennings went 4-for-4 in his fourth game on April 13, 1988…then went 3-for-3 with a career-high three RBI the next day at New York (AL), giving him in a hit in seven consecutive bats…entered the game in the sixth inning and became the first A's player with at least three hits and three RBI in a game he did not start since Billy Hitchcock went 4-for-4 with four RBI on Sept. 5, 1951…had 10 hits over his first five games through Aug. 30, which are the most in Oakland history and the most by an Athletic since Spook Jacobs had 10 in his first five games for the 1954 Philadelphia A's…had two triples Sept. 3 against Los Angeles (AL) to tie the Oakland single-game record (12th time, last: Matt Chapman at Texas, July 26, 2018)…it was the first two-triple game in the Coliseum since May 12, 2007 (Josh Barfield, TOR) and the first by an Athletic since Aug. 3, 2002 (Mark Ellis vs. Detroit)…doubled in the seventh inning Sept. 17 against Kansas City but that would be his final hit of the season…finished the season on a 0-for-19 streak…went 0-for-4 with a career-high four strikeouts Sept. 22 against Texas…had made each of his first 16 starts in left field before starting at first base in the final game of the season on Sept. 29 at Seattle…pinch hit for Sean Murphy in the fourth inning of the AL Wild Card game on Oct. 2 against Tampa Bay in Oakland and grounded into a fielders' choice.
LAS VEGAS: Was named the A's Organizational Hitter of the Year and Most Valuable Player for Las Vegas after hitting a career-high 37 home runs…that was second-most in all of minor league baseball to the Diamondbacks Kevin Cron (39)…it tied for third-most in Oakland history by a minor leaguer and was two short of the record of 39 by Chris Carter in 2008 and Adam Piatt in 1999…it ranks second all-time in Las Vegas franchise history (44, Phil Hiatt in 2001)…was third in the minors in extra-base hits (72) and total bases (286), tied for fifth in runs (101) and sixth in RBI (104)…ranked second in the Pacific Coast League in home runs, extra-base hits and total bases, tied for third in runs, fourth in RBI and slugging (.634) and seventh in OPS (.986)…in addition to home runs, he also had career highs in batting (.297), slugging, OPS, runs and extra-base hits and matched his best in on-base percentage (.352)…led the A's farm system in runs, home runs, RBI and extra-base hits, ranked second in slugging, third in OPS, tied for fifth in doubles (29), sixth in batting and hits (134) and tied for eighth in triples (6)…was 8-for-9 (88.9%) in stolen base attempts…had a .277 batting average with 18 home runs, 59 RBI and an .887 OPS in 73 games at the All-Star Break…then hit .335 with 19 home runs, 45 RBI and a 1.170 OPS in 39 games after the break…hit .308 (106-for-344) with a 1.017 OPS against right-handed pitchers compared to .262 (28-for-107) with an .889 OPS against left-handers…batted .299 with 19 home runs at home, .295 with 18 home runs on the road…had a .319 batting average and 10 home runs when leading off an inning…hit .279 with runners in scoring position, including .234 with RISP and two outs… started 61 games at first base, 26 at designated hitter, 14 in left field and eight in right field… committed seven errors as a first baseman for a .987 fielding percentage…also had one error as a right fielder…hit .328 as a first baseman, .278 as an outfielder and .238 as the designated hitter…batted clean-up in 103 games but hit in every spot in the order except second and ninth… scored a run in each of his first nine games and batted .382 with 13 runs, four home runs and 15 RBI over that season-opening stretch…capped the streak with his first career three-homer game April 15 against Fresno…also drove in a career-high six runs…homered twice two days later at Sacramento…hit .319 with nine home runs and 23 RBI in 22 games in April…a two-hit game on May 3 against Fresno lifted his overall batting average to .320…then went 10-for-57 (.175) over his next 15 games to fall to .269…grounded into his third and final double play of the season May 19 at Salt Lake and finished the season with a 77-game streak without a GIDP…went 4-for-4 with a walk and two doubles May 27 at Reno, but followed that up by hitting .178 over his next 17 games…went 0-for-5 with five strikeouts on June 21 against Sacramento…hit .447 with 14 runs, seven doubles, a triple, two home runs and 14 RBI over a 10-game stretch from June 23 to July 2…matched his career-high with four hits July 20 at Salt Lake…was named PCL Player of the Week for the week of July 22-28 when he went 12-for-25 (.480) with 12 runs scored, eight home runs, 13 RBI and five walks in six games…that included two-homer games on July 23 against El Paso and July 27 and 28 at El Paso…homered in four straight games from July 25 to 28…batted .344 with nine home runs and 21 RBI in 23 games in July…it was his highest single-month average in 2019…also walked 13 times for a .425 on-base percentage…then hit .321 with 10 home runs and 27 RBI in 22 games in August…it was the second time in his career he hit 10 or more home runs in a month (12 with Stockton in August of 2017)…went 3-for-4 with a double, two home runs and five RBI Aug. 12 at Omaha…hit safely in each of final nine games with Las Vegas, which was his longest hitting streak of the season…went 15-for-35 (.429) with 10 runs, four doubles, three home runs and nine RBI over that stretch, which began on Aug. 16…had his seventh and final multi-homer game of the season Aug. 19 against Reno when he went 2-for-4 with two RBI…was selected by Oakland Aug. 26.
