![]() ![]() ![]() On April 18, 2018, before a sold-out crowd at the Hiram Bithorn Stadium in his homeland Puerto Rico, Rosario scored the winning run in the bottom of the 16th inning, coming around on Ryan LaMarre’s single that gave Minnesota a 2–1 win over the Cleveland Indians. He ranked in the top 25 for batting average, OPS, slugging, and doubles. Later in the season he won his first Player of the Week for the week of August 13, going. On June 13 he had his first career 3 home run game going 4-5 and driving in 5 runs. In 2017, Rosario became the Twins’ everyday left fielder and emerged into one of the AL’s best hitters. He was brought back up towards the end of the season, and finished the year batting. After a slow start and the emergence of both Robbie Grossman and Max Kepler, Rosario saw his playing time dwindle ultimately leading to his demotion to Triple-A. With the retirement of Torii Hunter and the Twins' trade of Aaron Hicks, Rosario entered 2016 as the Twins' projected everyday left fielder. Rosario finished his rookie campaign with a. Despite being called up a month into the season, Rosario led all of baseball in triples with 15, and was second in outfield assists with 16, just one behind Avisail García of the Chicago White Sox. Rosario played in 122 games for the Twins, sharing outfield duties with Torii Hunter, Aaron Hicks, and fellow prospect Byron Buxton. Leading off the bottom of the 3rd inning, Rosario swung at the first pitch he saw from Oakland Athletics starter Scott Kazmir, and hit an opposite-field home run, becoming the 115th player in major league history to hit a home run in his first at-bat. Rosario made his major league debut on May 6, 2015. He also played several seasons in the Puerto Rican Winter League, and played in the Arizona Fall League in 20. He advanced through the farm system of the Twins, first reaching Double-A in 2013 and Triple-A in 2015. Rosario first played in Minor League Baseball in 2010, in the Gulf Coast League. Minnesota Twins Rosario with the New Britain Rock Cats in 2013 Rosario was subsequently selected by the Minnesota Twins in the fourth round of the 2010 MLB draft. Rosario was scouted by Hector Otero, who worked for the Minnesota Twins at the time, as the organization's lead scout for South Florida and Puerto Rico. He made his major league debut in 2015, hitting a home run in his first at bat, on the first pitch, off of Scott Kazmir of the Oakland Athletics.Įddie Rosario was born to parents Eddie Sr. After the 2013 season, Rosario received a 50-game suspension for using a banned substance, which he served at the start of the 2014 season. Rosario represented Puerto Rico in the 2013, 2017, and 2023 editions of the World Baseball Classic, winning a silver medal in his first two appearances. He has previously played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Twins, Cleveland Indians and Atlanta Braves. Rosario was selected by the Minnesota Twins in the fourth round of the 2010 MLB draft. (born September 28, 1991) is a Puerto Rican professional baseball left fielder who is a free agent. He drove in nine runs in the six games.Eddie Manuel Rosario, Jr. 560/.670/1.040 batting line and a postseason series record-tying 14 hits. To the surprise of no one, Rosario was named the NLCS MVP following Game 6. In the fourth, though, with the score tied 1-1, Rosario left nothing to chance as he authored a methodical at-bat against Buehler that changed the trajectory of Game 6 and pushed the Braves closer to their first NL pennant since 1999. In the first inning Saturday night in Atlanta, he notched a line drive single off Walker Buehler but was retired on a double play off the bat of Freddie Freeman. That's an honest series' work and then some, but Rosario was far from done. 571/.609/1.000 in the NLCS going into Game 6 with 12 hits, two of which were home runs and one of which was the walk-off hit of Game 2. Once again, outfielder Eddie Rosario was at the center of the action for Atlanta. The Braves beat the Los Angeles Dodgers in Game 6 of the NLCS on Saturday night ( ATL 4, LA 2), setting up a meeting with the Houston Astros in the Fall Classic. For the first time since 1999, the Atlanta Braves are going to the World Series. ![]()
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