Jason Bay
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| Left fielder | |
| Born: September 20, 1978 Trail , British Columbia , Canada 
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| Strikes: Right | Throws: Right |
| Debut in Major League Baseball | |
| May 23, 2003 at the San Diego Padres | |
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| July 26, 2013 at the Seattle Mariners | |
| MLB statistics (until end of career) |
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| Batting average | .266 |
| Home runs | 222 |
| RBI | 754 |
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Jason Raymond Bay (born September 20, 1978 in Trail , British Columbia ) is a retired Canadian baseball player with US citizenship in Major League Baseball . Bay was an outfielder and has been with five different teams during his career, most recently in the 2013 season with the Seattle Mariners .
Career
Minor League and MLB debut
Jason Bay was selected by the Montreal Expos in the 22nd round of the 2000 MLB Draft . He previously worked at Gonzaga University in Spokane . There he was first in the short season A team in Burlington and from 2001 in the high single A team in Jupiter . On March 24, 2002, Bay was given to the New York Mets in exchange with Lou Collier . Shortly before the end of the transfer window, the Mets passed it on to the San Diego Padres . On May 23, 2003, Bay made his MLB debut. With his first hit he managed to run straight away . Two days after his first professional game, Bay broke his right wrist as a result of a hit by pitch .
Pittsburgh Pirates (2003-2008)
On August 26, 2003, Bay was given to the Pittsburgh Pirates . He finished the season with a batting average of .287, hitting four home runs and 14 RBIs in 30 games.
Although Bay missed the start of the 2004 season due to an injury, he was able to record the best offensive performance of all rookies in the National League at the end of the season . Thanks to 26 home runs, 82 RBI and a slugging percentage of .550, he received the National League's MLB Rookie of the Year Award .
In 2005, Bay was first selected for the All-Star Game . However, he was only a substitute and at the end of the match the only player on both teams who was not given any playing time. After the season ended, Bay extended his Pittsburgh contract for another four years. The contract earned him $ 18.25 million in earnings.
In the 2006 season, Bay set a new club record. He scored twelve homers in May, more than any Pirates player had ever made in a month. In addition, this time he was selected as a starter in the All-Star Team.
After a rather average season in 2007 due to injuries, Bay increased again in 2008 and showed consistently good performances until the All-Star Break, after which he left Pittsburgh for Boston.
Boston Red Sox (2008-2009)
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On July 31, 2008, Jason Bay was transferred to the Boston Red Sox . Bay quickly integrated into the team and achieved various successes. In his first game in the new jersey he scored both runs for his team and was able to book eight home runs by the end of the regular season . Bay also moved into the postseason for the first time in his career . In the first two games in the American League Division Series against the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim he managed a home run. In the subsequent American League Championship Series, he scored the first run of the series against the Tampa Bay Rays . However , he and his team were denied entry into the 2008 World Series after a defeat in Game 7.
A very successful season in 2009 followed , in which Bay was selected for the All-Star Game for the third time in his career and set a new personal record with 36 home runs. He was also ranked 41st of the 50 best active players by Sporting News magazine.
After the season ended, Bay's contract expired and he was officially listed as a free agent .
New York Mets (2010-2012)
On December 29, 2009, Bay signed a $ 66 million four-year contract with the New York Mets .
On the part of the club, Omar Minaya was responsible for the deal. This had already brought Bay to the Mets for a short time in 2002. Jason Bay was presented at Citi Field on January 5th, 2010 .
The first home run for the Mets was Bay on April 27, 2010 in the game against the Los Angeles Dodgers . In his first season in Queens Bay achieved six home runs and 47 runs in 95 games, which were poor for his standards. He achieved a batting average of .259. During the 2011 season, Bay scored the 200th home run of his career, something only two other Canadian-born players had before him, Larry Walker and Matt Stairs . He finished the season with a batting average of 24.5%, 12 home runs and 57 RBI. The 2012 season was marked by several injuries and poor performances by Bay's standards. He was only used in 70 games and recorded the worst batting average of his career with 16.5%.
On November 7, 2012, the Mets and Bay agreed to terminate the existing contract one year before it expired.
Seattle Mariners (2013)
Jason Bay signed a one-year contract with the Mariners in December 2012, where he came to 68 missions in the 2013 season before he was released on August 6, 2013.
On March 31, 2014, Bay announced his retirement from active sports.
Personal
Jason Bay has two daughters (born 2006 and 2008) with his wife Kristen and lives in Larchmont .
Bay has a three-years younger sister named Lauren Bay Regula, who as a professional softball player is active, and at the Summer Olympics in 2004 and 2008 for the Canadian team pitched .
Bay received US citizenship on July 2, 2009 in Boston.
Web links
- Player information and statistics from MLB or ESPN or Baseball Reference or Fangraphs or The Baseball Cube or Baseball Reference (Minor League) (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.thebaseballcube.com/draft/2000/June-Reg/22.shtml 22nd round of the MLB Draft 2000 on thebaseballcube.com
- ^ Associated Press : Pirates agree to multiyear deal with Bay . ESPN.com . November 17, 2005. Retrieved October 22, 2009.
- ^ Robert Lee: Shortstop Wilson goes to PawSox as part of Manny-for-Bay deal , Providence Journal . August 3, 2008. Retrieved August 4, 2008.
- ^ Jon Heyman: Manny traded to Dodgers, Bay headed to Boston . July 31, 2008. Archived from the original on June 18, 2010.
- ↑ Seattle Sports Blog Seattle Post-Intelligencer
- ↑ Mets welcome Bay to Queens ( Memento of the original from January 19, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. MLB.com
- ^ Mets reach deal with Bay Sports Illustrated
- ↑ Bay crushes 200th home run on Monday. mlb.com, August 8, 2011, accessed June 27, 2016 .
- ↑ Mets, Jason Bay Agree To Buyout; Outfielder Becomes Free Agent. CBS New York, November 7, 2012, accessed June 27, 2016 .
- ^ Mariners release Jason Bay. MLB Trade Rumors, August 6, 2013, accessed June 27, 2016 .
- ↑ Jason Bay retires from baseball. SB Nation, March 31, 2014, accessed June 27, 2016 .
- ↑ Canadian Press: Red Sox OF Bay to be sworn in as American citizen . In: The Sports Network . July 2, 2009. Retrieved January 8, 2011.
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| SURNAME | Bay, Jason |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Bay, Jason Raymond (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Canadian baseball player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 20th September 1978 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Trail |