During his senior year in baseball for the Greyhounds, McClain achieved a batting average of .464 and maintained an earned-run average of 1.74, winning 10 out of his 11 pitching appearances.[1] As a football player, McClain concluded his tenure at AHS with a total of 3,341 passing yards and 25 touchdown passes over a span of two years.[2]
Professional baseball career
McClain has spent the majority of his professional career moving between different minor league teams affiliated with various Major League Baseball organizations. During his time as a major leaguer, he participated in nine games as a member of the Tampa Bay Devil Rays in 1998, 13 games with the Chicago Cubs in 2005, eight games with the San Francisco Giants in 2007, and an additional 14 games with the Giants in 2008.
Over the course of his professional career, McClain achieved a total of 359 home runs, with 287 coming in the minors, 71 in Japan, and two in MLB. He also recorded 1,237 runs batted in, with 1,066 in the minors and 171 in Japan. McClain hit his first home run in the major leagues on September 3, 2008, while playing for the Giants against the Colorado Rockies at Coors Field.
On January 20, 2010, McClain signed a minor league contract with the Chicago Cubs, but as of June 2010 he was not on the roster of any Cubs minor league teams.[3]
Scouting
Later in 2010, Hiroshima added Scott McClain as a U.S.-based scout.[4]
References
^"McClain gets CIF selection". San Luis Obispo Telegram-Tribune. June 15, 1990. pp. B1.
^Ruthemeyer, Dan (November 23, 1989). "McClain leaving mark on diamond and gridiron". San Luis Obispo Telegram-Tribune. pp. B1.
