Brett Pill

Brett Pill
A man in a gray baseball uniform emblazoned with blue letters reading "CONNECTICUT" swings a baseball bat right handed, checking his swing.
Pill batting for Connecticut in 2009
First baseman / Left fielder
Born: (1984-09-09) September 9, 1984 (age 40)
San Dimas, California, U.S.
Batted: Right
Threw: Right
Professional debut
MLB: September 6, 2011, for the San Francisco Giants
KBO: March 30, 2014, for the Kia Tigers
Last appearance
MLB: September 28, 2013, for the San Francisco Giants
KBO: October 8, 2016, for the Kia Tigers
MLB statistics
Batting average.233
Home runs9
Runs batted in32
KBO statistics
Batting average.316
Home runs61
Runs batted in253
Stats at Baseball Reference Edit this at Wikidata
Teams

Brett Michael Pill (born September 9, 1984) is an American former professional baseball first baseman and left fielder. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the San Francisco Giants and in the KBO League for the Kia Tigers.

Amateur career

Pill attended Covina High School and California State University, Fullerton, where he played for the Cal State Fullerton Titans baseball team.[1] As a freshman in 2004, he played in 50 games but had only 80 at-bats, hitting .313 with two home runs and 17 RBI. In 2005 he hit .327 with nine home runs and 57 RBI for the Titans, and played collegiate summer baseball for the Orleans Cardinals of the Cape Cod Baseball League.[2] In his junior year, Pill hit .328 with five home runs and 40 RBI.[3]

Professional career

Draft and minor leagues

Pill was drafted twice. In 2005, he was drafted in the 45th round (1,362nd overall) by the New York Yankees, however he did not sign. He was drafted in the seventh round (206th overall) of the 2006 amateur draft by the Giants, and he did sign.[4]

Pill began his professional career in 2006, playing for the Salem-Keizer Volcanoes. That season, he hit .220 with five home runs and 35 RBI in 60 games. In 2007, he played for the Augusta Greenjackets, hitting .269 with ten home runs and 91 RBI in 137 games. With the San Jose Giants in 2008, Pill hit .266 with nine home runs and 65 RBI in 131 games. He hit .298 with 19 home runs and 109 RBI in 139 games for the Connecticut Defenders in 2009.[5] In 2010 and 2011, Pill played with the Fresno Grizzlies, the AAA affiliate of the Giants, hitting .294 and amassing 41 HR and 191 RBI over the course of two seasons.[5] Prior to being promoted to the major leagues, on August 21, 2011, he led the Pacific Coast League with 101 RBI.[6]

San Francisco Giants

Pill was promoted to the majors on August 31, 2011.[7] He hit a home run in his first Major League at-bat on September 6, 2011, off Wade LeBlanc of the San Diego Padres, becoming the first Giant since Will Clark to accomplish that feat.[8] On September 7, 2011, he joined John Bowker as the only Giant to hit a home run in his first two major league games; Pill is only the 22nd major league player to do so since 1919.[9] He hit .300 with two home runs and nine RBI in 15 games with the Giants that year. After beginning the 2012 season with the Giants, on June 9, 2012, Pill was optioned to Triple-A's Fresno Grizzlies.[10] In 2012, hit .210 with four home runs and 11 RBI in 105 at-bats for the Giants and .285 with 11 home runs and 45 RBI in 246 at-bats for the Grizzlies.

Pill was optioned to Triple-A to begin the 2013 season. The Giants recalled Pill from the Fresno Grizzlies on May 13, 2013,[11] but he was sent back to AAA on June 13 after seeing only limited duty. On July 30, 2013, the Giants again recalled Pill, along with rookie Roger Kieschnick.[12]

Kia Tigers

The Giants released Pill on January 2, 2014, so he could sign with the Kia Tigers of the Korea Baseball Organization.[13] He played in 92 games in 2014 and recorded a .309 batting average, with 19 home runs and 66 runs batted in. Pill signed another one-year deal, worth $700,000, with the Tigers on December 8, 2014.[14] In 2015, he hit .325 with 22 home runs and 101 RBIs in 143 games played. In November 2015, the Tigers re-signed Pill to a 1-year, $900,000 deal.[15] He became a free agent at the end of the 2016 season.[16]

Detroit Tigers

On January 10, 2017, Pill signed a minor league contract with the Detroit Tigers that included an invitation to spring training.[17] He retired on March 31, 2017.[18]

Coaching career

In 2020, Pill was named the hitting coach for the Tulsa Drillers, the Double–A affiliate of the Los Angeles Dodgers.[19]

Personal life

Pill's brother is MLB pitcher Tyler Pill.[20][21]

His father, Michael Pill, played three minor league seasons with the Pittsburgh Pirates from 1977-1979. [22]

References

  1. ^ The Baseball Cube Archived November 23, 2009, at the Wayback Machine
  2. ^ "2005 Orleans Cardinals". thebaseballcube.com. Retrieved July 20, 2021.
  3. ^ "9 Brett Pill". Cal State Fullerton Athletics.
  4. ^ "MLB Amateur Draft Picks with the Name Matching: PIll - Baseball-Reference.com". Baseball-Reference.com.
  5. ^ a b "Baseball Reference Minors".
  6. ^ McDevitt, Steve (August 21, 2011). "San Francisco Giants: The Mysterious Case of Brett Pill". Bleacher Report.
  7. ^ Berry, Adam (August 31, 2011). "Giants cut ties with Tejada, Rowand". MLB.com.
  8. ^ Schulman, Henry (September 7, 2011). "Rookie Pill homers as patchwork SF Giants win". San Francisco Chronicle.
  9. ^ Baggarly, Andrew (September 7, 2011). "Matt Cain's milestones can't prevent San Francisco Giants' loss to San Diego Padres". Bay Area News Group.
  10. ^ "Transactions". San Francisco Giants. Archived from the original on May 9, 2016.
  11. ^ Haft, Chris (May 13, 2013). "Giants recall Pill, option Peguero to Fresno". mlb.com. Retrieved May 15, 2013.
  12. ^ Schulman, Henry (July 30, 2013). "'Try anything' mode means Pill call-up". San Francisco Chronicle.
  13. ^ Berry, Adam (December 21, 2013). "Pill set to join Korean team after Giants sell rights". MLB.com. Archived from the original on December 26, 2013. Retrieved January 4, 2014.
  14. ^ "MLB dream on hold". Korea Herald. December 8, 2014. Retrieved July 16, 2015.
  15. ^ "Kia Tigers sign two ex-MLB pitchers". Korea Herald. December 2, 2015.
  16. ^ "Baseball club signs new American pitcher". english.yonhapnews.co.kr. November 27, 2016. Retrieved November 29, 2016.
  17. ^ Beck, Jason (January 10, 2017). "Tigers sign Minors contracts with 22 players". MLB.com. Archived from the original on August 3, 2017. Retrieved January 10, 2017.
  18. ^ "Brett Pill Stats, Highlights, Bio | MiLB.com Stats | The Official Site of Minor League Baseball". MiLB.com. Retrieved May 26, 2017.
  19. ^ "Drillers Announce 2020 Coaching Staff". milb.com. January 29, 2020. Retrieved January 29, 2020.
  20. ^ "Brothers doing it big". Daily Titan. March 7, 2012. Retrieved February 4, 2020.
  21. ^ Epstein, Daniel R. (January 21, 2019). "A New Kind of Two-Way Player". Off The Bench. Retrieved February 4, 2020.
  22. ^ "Michael Pill Minor Leagues Statistics". Baseball-Reference.com. Retrieved May 23, 2024.

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