James Boone
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James L. Boone
- Bats Both, Throws Right
- Height 6' 2", Weight 175 lb.
- School University of Missouri
- High School Clinton (OK) High School
- Born March 16, 1983 in Clinton, OK USA
James Boone is an outfielder.
Boone hit .248/.341/.394 as a freshman in college. The next year, he batted .332/.420/.483. He hit .340/.457/.593 as a junior and made the Big 12 Conference All-Conference team in the outfield.
The Pittsburgh Pirates took Boone in the third round of the 2005 amateur draft and assigned him to the Williamsport Crosscutters; he produced at a .291/.343/.450 clip. Boone's 2006 season was lost due to a stress fracture in his foot and a shoulder operation. He only got into 28 games for the Hickory Crawdads, hitting .192/.302/.222.
Boone bounced back in 2007, batting .327/.400/.495 in 27 games for Hickory before an early May promotion to the Lynchburg Hillcats. Boone hit .255/.338/.411 for Lynchburg. He struggled in 2008 with the Altoona Curve, only posting a batting line of .219/.307/.359 with 107 strikeouts in 329 AB. He was even worse to start 2009, hitting .179/.235/.244 in 42 games for Altoona, earning his release after Pittsburgh traded for prospect Gorkys Hernandez and assigned him to the Curve.
Sources: 2006-2007 Baseball Almanacs, The Baseball Cube, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
