Grant Green
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Grant Green
- Bats Right, Throws Right
- Height 6' 3", Weight 180 lb.
- School University of Southern California
- High School Canyon High School (Anaheim)
- Born September 27, 1987
[edit] Biographical Information
Grant Green was a first-round pick in 2009.
Green hit .455 as a high school junior with 30 RBI in 88 games, following a .430 season as a sophomore. His senior year, he batted .453. In the 2005 Junior Pan American Championship, Green hit .412 for the USA.
Green batted .316/.388/.491 as a freshman, starting at shortstop for USC. He set a school record with 10 triples. He was named Pacific-10 Conference Co-Freshman of the Year with Gabe Cohen. In the summer, he batted .291/.362/.449 for the Yarmouth-Dennis Red Sox of the Cape Cod League. He was 5th in the circuit with 11 steals. Baseball America rated him the #18 prospect in the Cape Cod League.
In 2008, the sophomore batted .390/.438/.644 and was named to the All-Pac-10 team as the best shortstop in the Conference. He was named third-team All-American by Baseball America, behind Gordon Beckham and Reese Havens at short. Back in the Cape Cod league, he hit .348/.451/.571 with 37 runs in 41 games for the Chatham A's. He was 4th in the league in average, 3rd in hits (56), tied for second in doubles (12), 5th in OBP, second to A.J. Pollock in slugging and second in runs. He was named the top pro prospect in the league.
Green hit .374/.435/.592 as a junior and stole 16 bases in 24 attempts. He finished his college career tied for 5th in Pac-10 history with 20 triples, a USC record. The Oakland A's took him with the 13th pick of the 2009 amateur draft, and he made his pro debut that summer with the Stockton Ports, hitting .316 in 5 games.
Green was picked for the USA team in the 2010 Futures Game. He entered as a backup to Dee Gordon at shortstop but would later switch spots with 2B Danny Espinosa. In his first at-bat, against Trystan Magnuson, he singled home Desmond Jennings. He grounded out versus Eduardo Sánchez his other time to the plate. back in the US team for the 2011 Futures Game, he won the Larry Doby Award as the game's MVP. He lined an RBI double off Martin Perez as a pinch-hitter in the 5th inning, then led off the 8th with a double off Kelvin Herrera and came around to score the tying run.
