Joe Borchard
American baseball player (born 1978) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Joseph Edward Borchard (born November 25, 1978) is an American former Major League Baseball (MLB) outfielder. Borchard was the 12th pick of the first round in the 2000 Major League Baseball Draft out of Stanford University by the Chicago White Sox. In high school, he won a division III state football championship at Adolfo Camarillo High School as the starting quarterback. He also played quarterback for Stanford and took a $5.3 million signing bonus to play for the White Sox. The signing bonus was the highest ever given to a player for a minor league contract until Justin Upton received $6.1 million to sign with the Arizona Diamondbacks in 2005.
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Borchard with the Florida Marlins | |||||||||||||||
Outfielder | |||||||||||||||
Born: (1978-11-25) November 25, 1978 (age 45) Panorama City, Los Angeles, California, U.S. | |||||||||||||||
Batted: Switch Threw: Right | |||||||||||||||
MLB debut | |||||||||||||||
September 2, 2002, for the Chicago White Sox | |||||||||||||||
Last MLB appearance | |||||||||||||||
August 5, 2007, for the Florida Marlins | |||||||||||||||
MLB statistics | |||||||||||||||
Batting average | .205 | ||||||||||||||
Home runs | 26 | ||||||||||||||
Runs batted in | 77 | ||||||||||||||
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