Brian Traxler
| Brian Traxler | |||
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| First baseman / Pinch hitter | |||
| Born: September 26, 1967 Waukegan, Illinois |
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| Died: Script error: The function "death_date_and_age" does not exist. San Antonio, Texas |
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| MLB debut | |||
| April 24, 1990, for the Los Angeles Dodgers | |||
| Last MLB appearance | |||
| May 21, 1990, for the Los Angeles Dodgers | |||
| MLB statistics | |||
| Batting average | .091 | ||
| At bat | 11 | ||
| Hits | 1 | ||
| Games played | 9 | ||
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Brian Lee Traxler (September 26, 1967 – November 19, 2004) was a first baseman in Major League Baseball who played for the Los Angeles Dodgers during their 1990 season. Listed at 5' 10", 200 lb., Traxler batted and threw left-handed. He was born in Waukegan, Illinois.
Traxler was selected by the Dodgers in the 16th round of the 1988 MLB Draft out of University of New Orleans. He made his Major League debut on April 24, 1990.
Additionally, he played in 1994 for the Fukuoka Daiei Hawks of Nippon Professional Baseball. Later on, he returned to the Dodgers organization in 1995, and then played one season in Taiwan for the Ho-Hsin Whales.[1]
Traxler starred for the Fargo-Moorhead RedHawks for 1½ years, including their inaugural 1996 season. That year, Traxler was one of the top hitters in the Northern League batting .335 with 16 doubles, two triples and 16 home runs, while driving in 75 runs and scoring 73 times in 83 games. In 1997, he followed with a .298 average, 12 doubles, three homers, 37 RBI and 29 runs scored in 42 games.
He also spent six seasons with the Albuquerque Dukes Triple-A club. To this day, he is remembered fondly as a favorite all-time player of many Dukes fans.[2] Following his playing days, he became a hitting instructor in the Dodgers Minor League system.
In between, Traxler played winter ball from 1991 through 1994 in the Dominican Republic (Tigres del Licey), Venezuela (Leones del Caracas) and Puerto Rico (Indios de Mayagüez), where he became a cult figure among fans of these countries.[2]
On November 4, 2004 Traxler was taken to North Central Baptist Hospital in San Antonio, Texas, and subsequently slipped into a coma before dying 15 days later at the age of 37.[2]
Sources
- ↑ Chinese Taiwan language data
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
External links
- Career statistics and player information from Baseball Reference, or Fangraphs, or Baseball Reference (Minors)
- Baseball Almanac
- Retrosheet
- The Baseball Gauge
- Venezuela Winter League
- Former RedHawks star Brian Traxler dies at 37
- Dodger Thoughts: One Hit … And Much More
- Pages using baseballstats with unknown parameters
- 1967 births
- 2004 deaths
- Albuquerque Dukes players
- American expatriate baseball players in Japan
- Baseball players from Illinois
- Expatriate baseball players in Taiwan
- Fargo-Moorhead RedHawks players
- Fukuoka Daiei Hawks players
- Indios de Mayagüez players
- Koos Group Whales players
- Leones del Caracas players
- Los Angeles Dodgers players
- Major League Baseball first basemen
- New Orleans Privateers baseball players
- Sportspeople from Waukegan, Illinois
- San Antonio Missions players
- Sioux Falls Canaries players
- Somerset Patriots players
- Tigres del Licey players
- University of New Orleans alumni
- Vero Beach Dodgers players
