Craig Harold Paquette (/pɑːˈkɛt/; born March 28, 1969) is an American former professional baseball third baseman. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Oakland Athletics, Kansas City Royals, New York Mets, St. Louis Cardinals, and Detroit Tigers. In 2007, he played for the Camden Riversharks of the independent Atlantic League of Professional Baseball.
| Craig Paquette | |||||||||||||||
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| Third baseman / Outfielder | |||||||||||||||
| Born: March 28, 1969 Long Beach, California, U.S. | |||||||||||||||
Batted: Right Threw: Right | |||||||||||||||
| MLB debut | |||||||||||||||
| June 1, 1993, for the Oakland Athletics | |||||||||||||||
| Last MLB appearance | |||||||||||||||
| April 24, 2003, for the Kansas City Royals | |||||||||||||||
| MLB statistics | |||||||||||||||
| Batting average | .239 | ||||||||||||||
| Home runs | 99 | ||||||||||||||
| Runs batted in | 377 | ||||||||||||||
| Stats at Baseball Reference | |||||||||||||||
| Teams | |||||||||||||||
Medals
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A native of Long Beach, California, Paquette attended Rancho Alamitos High School and then went on to play college baseball for Golden West College. In 1988, he played collegiate summer baseball with the Brewster Whitecaps of the Cape Cod Baseball League.[1] He was selected by Oakland in the 8th round of the 1989 MLB Draft.
References
edit- ^ "Major League Baseball Players From the Cape Cod League" (PDF). capecodbaseball.org. Retrieved January 9, 2020.
External links
edit- Career statistics from Baseball Reference, or Baseball Reference (Minors)
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