Adam Ging

Adam Kimball Ging

• Bats Both, Throws Right
• Height 6' 1", Weight 180 lb.
• School University of California, Irvine
• High School Loyola High School (Los Angeles)

• Born March 13, 1964 in Malibu, CA USA

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Biographical Information

Infielder Adam Ging was drafted by the San Diego Padres in the 24th round of the 1985 amateur draft out of the University of California, Irvine. He played his first professional season that same year with the Spokane Indians of the Northwest League where he hit .199 in 51 games as the starting shortstop. He improved significantly in 1986, as he hit .264 in 132 games for the Reno Padres of the California League, scoring 68 runs and driving in 55 while splitting his time between shortstop and third base.

On December 12, 1986, he was included in a very high-profile trade between the Padres and the New York Mets. It featured the Padres sending starting CF Kevin McReynolds, relief pitcher Gene Walter and Ging to the Big Apple in return for OF-3B Kevin Mitchell, two blue chip prospects in OFs Stan Jefferson and Shawn Abner, the latter having been the first overall pick of the 1984 amateur draft, and two other low-level minor leaguers. Ging never reached the majors, leaving the game after two seasons in the Mets system. In 1987, he started the year in the Carolina League with the Lynchburg Mets, but hit just .194 in 29 games, with no power and was demoted to the South Atlantic League and the Columbia Mets. He did better there, batting .266 in 106 games, with 18 doubles and 7 homers. In 1988, he went to the St. Lucie Mets of the Florida State League, but already old for the league at 24, he did not set it on fire, hitting .239 in 119 games, with 10 doubles 6 triples and 5 homers. By that time he had been moved off shortstop and was splitting his time between second and third base. He was released during spring training in 1989.

Following baseball, he was employed for two decades by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms as a criminal investigator and later as a senior operations officer, before becoming a free-lance writer.