| Bryan LaHair | |
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| Chicago Cubs – No. 6 | |
| First baseman | |
| Born: November 5, 1982 Worcester, Massachusetts |
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| Bats: Left | Throws: Right |
| MLB debut | |
| July 18, 2008 for the Seattle Mariners | |
| Career statistics (through 2011 Season) |
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| Batting average | .262 |
| Home runs | 5 |
| Runs batted in | 16 |
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Bryan Allan LaHair (born November 5, 1982 in Worcester, Massachusetts) is an American professional baseball first baseman for the Chicago Cubs. He bats left-handed and throws right-handed.
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During one of his college years playing for the Keene Swamp Bats of the New England Collegiate Baseball League.
LaHair was selected by the Mariners in the 39th round of the 2002 Major League Baseball Draft out of Saint Petersburg College.
LaHair spent the 2005 season with the Inland Empire 66ers, the Mariners' Single-A affiliate at the time, where he hit .310 with 22 home runs and 113 RBI, earning a spot in the California/Carolina League All-Star Game.
For 2006, LaHair was promoted to the Double-A San Antonio Missions and later to the Triple-A Tacoma Rainiers. In November 2006, he was placed on the Mariners' 40-man roster.
After playing the entire 2007 season in Triple-A, batting .275 with 12 home runs, LaHair started the 2008 season with the Rainiers. In July 2008, he was called up to the Mariners shortly after the release of first baseman Richie Sexson.[1] The Mariners had called up infielder Tug Hulett directly following Sexson's departure, but sent him back down to make room for LaHair a week later. He made his Major League debut on July 18, 2008, as a pinch hitter, grounding into a double play. His first Major League Baseball hit was a line drive single to right field against the Boston Red Sox.
On January 9, 2010, LaHair signed a minor league contract with the Chicago Cubs with an invite to spring training.
With the Triple-A Iowa Cubs, LaHair won the Pacific Coast League Most Valuable Player Award and Joe Bauman Home Run Award in 2011.[2] He was named the designated hitter on Baseball America's 2011 Minor League All Star team.[3]
He earned a promotion to the Cubs major-league roster in September 2011,[4] and in his debut for the team on September 4, recorded his first Cubs hit, a single off the Pittsburgh Pirates' Charlie Morton.[5]
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