Carlos Quentin

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**Carlos Quentin**
Major League Baseball debut
Arizona Diamondbacks — No. 7
Right Fielder
Bats: Right	Throws: Right
July 20, 2006 for the Arizona Diamondbacks
Selected MLB statistics (through 2006)
AVG	.253
RBI	32
HR	9

Carlos Quentin (born August 28, 1982 in Chula Vista, California, is an outfielder who plays for the Arizona Diamondbacks.

1 School years
2 Career
- 2.1 College
- 2.2 Professional
3 External links

[edit] School years

Quentin attended Saint Pius X Elementary School (Chula Vista, California), and later, University of San Diego High School (San Diego, California), where he was a three-sport star (baseball, football and basketball). He was named San Diego Male Athlete of the Year in 2000.

[edit] Career

[edit] College

Quentin attended Stanford University, where he played under legendary head coach Mark Marquess.

His Stanford career was exceptional; he was named All Pac-10 the three seasons he played (freshman, sophomore and junior). He was honored by Baseball America magazine all three seasons as well. He was named Pac-10 Freshman of the Year in 2001. In his junior season (2003), he was named Third Team All-American by the NCBWA and was one of five finalists for the Golden Spikes Award.

Quentin helped lead the Cardinal to postseason appearances all three years of his collegiate career, culminating in a 2-for-2, 2 RBI performance in Stanford's 2003 College World Series Championship Series Game 3 loss to Rice University.

He finished his Stanford career with a .350 batting average, 35 home runs, 170 RBI, and 26 stolen bases in 199 games played for the Cardinal.

[edit] Professional

Quentin was the second pick in the first round of the 2003 MLB Draft by the Arizona Diamondbacks. He sat out that year after undergoing Tommy John surgery on his right elbow (a rare procedure for non-pitchers). Once recovered, he quickly became part of a talented core of young Diamondback prospects.

Quentin set a minor-league record by getting hit by a pitch 43 times in 2004. That season, he led all Arizona minor league players in batting (.332), RBIs (91), runs (103), hits (157), and walks (69), numbers that were divided between Single-A Lancaster and Double-A El Paso.

Quentin was hitting .289 with 30 doubles, three triples, nine homers and 52 RBIs in 85 games for the Tucson Sidewinders when he was called up to the Diamondbacks on July 20, 2006; after grounding out in his first two major league at-bats, Quentin hit a two-run home run off Mark Hendrickson in the sixth inning of Arizona's 5-2 win over the Los Angeles Dodgers. His arrival was long anticipated by Diamondbacks fans; he was expected to replace Shawn Green as the everyday right fielder for the Diamondbacks once Green retired or otherwise left the team. Green was traded to the New York Mets in August, clearing the way for Quentin to become a full-time starter.