Josh Phegley
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Phegley with the Oakland Athletics
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| Oakland Athletics – No. 19 | |||
| Catcher | |||
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Born: February 12, 1988 Terre Haute, Indiana |
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| MLB debut | |||
| July 5, 2013, for the Chicago White Sox | |||
| MLB statistics (through June 17, 2017) |
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| Batting average | .229 | ||
| Home runs | 20 | ||
| Runs batted in | 80 | ||
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Joshua Aaron Phegley (born February 12, 1988) is an American professional baseball catcher for the Oakland Athletics of Major League Baseball (MLB).
He made his MLB debut with the Chicago White Sox in 2013. His career batting line in the major leagues through 2016 was .232/.269/.386.
Phegley attended Terre Haute North Vigo High School in Terre Haute, Indiana. He was named Indiana's Mr. Baseball in 2006.
He attended Indiana University, where he played college baseball for the Indiana Hoosiers baseball team.
Phegley was drafted by the Chicago White Sox in the first round (38th overall) of the 2009 MLB Draft. Phegley started his professional career in 2009 at Class A with the Kannapolis hitting .224 with 9 home runs and 33 RBI in 52 games.
Then during an injury-plagued 2010 season, Phegley spent time at three different levels in the White Sox system, rookie league Bristol, Class A-Advanced Winston-Salem and Double-A Birmingham. His totals for the 2010 season were .284, 5 home runs and 26 RBI in 48 games. He did not play the full season because he was put on the disabled list more than once as he suffered from Idiopathic Thrombocytopenic Purpura (ITP), an uncommon blood autoimmune disorder that lowers platelet count and prevents blood from clotting. In November 2010 surgery he had his spleen removed, because doctors were of the view that the non-vital organ which is mainly a blood filter was where his platelets were being destroyed.
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