Mike Tauchman

Mike Tauchman
Tauchman in the Jersey of the Rockies (2018)
New York Yankees - No. 39
Outfielder
Born: December 3rd, 1990 Palatine ,  United States
Strikes: Left	Throws: Left
Debut in Major League Baseball
June 27,  2017  at the  Colorado Rockies
MLB statistics (until the end of 2019)
Batting average	.254
Home runs	13
Runs Batted In	49
Teams
Colorado Rockies ( 2017 - 2018 ) New York Yankees (since 2019 )
Last update: January 12th, 2020

Michael Robert "Mike" Tauchman (born December 3, 1990 in Palatine , Illinois ) is an American baseball player in Major League Baseball (MLB) on the position of outfielders . He currently plays for the New York Yankees .

College and Minor Leagues

Tauchman attended William Fremd High School in Palatine. He played on the high school baseball team and was also the quarterback for the American football team. After high school he attended Bradley University , where he played baseball on the Bradley Braves team. In 2013, he was named Best Baseball Player at the Missouri Valley Conference .

The Colorado Rockies selected Tauchman in the 10th round of the 2013 MLB Draft . In 2015, Tauchman played in Double-A for the New Britain Rock Cats and he had a batting average of .294. A year later he played in the Pacific Coast League (PCL), a triple-A league , for the Albuquerque Isotopes. He had a slightly worse batting average of .286 this year, but he was able to score more points and convince his coaches that he could make his MLB debut in the Rockies jersey in June 2017.

MLB career

Colorado Rockies

In 2017 he played 32 MLB games in the Rockies jersey and had a batting average of .222 at the end of the season. In the 2018 season, Tauchman was reappointed to the Triple-A to the Albuquerque Isotopes. He made 112 games for the Isotopes and was named PCL Player of the Week for the week of May 14-20, 2018. That week, Tauchman hit a .417 batting average, made eight points , hit five home runs and stole 27 bases. In the same year he also played 21 games for the Rockies in the MLB, but he could not convince there with a batting average of .094.

New York Yankees

On March 23, 2019, the Rockies Tauchman traded Phil Diehl to the New York Yankees .

Web links

• Player information and statistics from MLB  or  ESPN  or  baseball reference  or  fangraphs  or  baseball reference (minor league) (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Tauchman on the Bradley Braves website. bradleybraves.com, accessed April 20, 2019 . 
2. ↑ Thomas Harding: Tauchman hopes to continue ascent this spring. Lefty-hitting outfielder eyes roster spot at Rockies camp. MLB.com, February 6, 2018, accessed April 20, 2019 . 
3. ↑ ^{a b} Albuquerque Isotopes: Mike Tauchman Receives PCL Player of the Week. MiLB.com, May 21, 2018, accessed April 20, 2019 . 
4. ^ Pete Caldera: Yankees swing deal for outfielder Mike Tauchman, trading Phillip Diehl to Colorado. northjersey.com, March 23, 2019, accessed April 20, 2019 .