Shawn Goosenberg

Shawn Isaac Goosenberg

• Bats Right, Throws Right
• Height 6' 0", Weight 220 lb.

• School Northwestern University
• High School Calabasas High School

• Born December 5, 1999 in Encino, CA USA

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Biographical Information

Shawn Goosenberg has played in the minors and for the Israeli national team.

He hit .400 as a high school senior and was MVP of the 2017 Maccabiah Games, when the US won the baseball Gold. He batted .288/.338/.397 as a freshman at Northwestern, with 11 steals in 12 tries. In the COVID-19-shortened 2020 season, he produced at a .444/.500/.704 clip with 7 RBI in 10 games. In 2021, he hit .362/.426/.717 with 14 home runs and 38 runs in 36 games, stealing 10 bases without being caught. The Chicago White Sox picked him in the 19th round of the 2021 amateur draft and signed him for a $125,000 bonus. The scout was J.J. Lally.

That summer, he played for the ACL White Sox (.273/.385/.545, 8 R in 6 G) and Kannapolis Cannon Ballers (.213/.351/.338 in 23 G). He had a .256/.341/.423 line for the 2022 Winston-Salem Dash, missing most of the year with injuries. In 2023, he was with Winston-Salem (.261/.359/.389, 32 SB in 38 tries) and Birmingham Barons (3 for 12, BB, HR). He tied Kevin Kilpatrick and Terrell Tatum for 6th in the South Atlantic League in swipes; among White Sox farmhands, only Tatum (47 between the same two stops) had more. He also split 2024 between Winston-Salem (.272/.348/.460 in 71 G) and Birmingham (.200/.268/.313 in 33 G), driving in 5 runs in 4 Southern League playoff games. Only Caden Connor and Mark Payton had more doubles than his 27, among Chicago's minor leaguers. He was also 6th in the system with 62 RBI, between Colson Montgomery and Wilfred Veras.

Opening 2025 with Birmingham, he struggled there again (.188/.230/.275 in 22 G) and was let go. Signing with the independent Kane County Cougars, he was 1 for 5 with a homer. With Israel for the 2025 European Championship, he appeared in five of their six games, but did not get a plate appearance. He replaced Itai Spinoza in center in their win over France, starting a trend of being a defensive sub; he also pinch-ran twice, stole a base and scored. He had two putouts. He was not the most prominent outfielder Shawn G. to have played for Israel, as Shawn Green had.