Brooks Badeaux

Brooks Christopher Badeaux

• Bats Both, Throws Right
• Height 5' 10", Weight 177 lb.

• School Florida State University
• High School Teurlings Catholic High School

• Born October 20, 1976 in Lafayette, LA USA

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Biographical Information

Brooks Badeaux played in the minor leagues and for the USA national baseball team.

Badeaux hit .254/.415/.338 with 51 walks in 68 games as a college freshman, .355/.449/.434 with 79 runs in 69 games as a sophomore (tied for 16th in NCAA Division I in runs) and .365/.478/.529 as a junior, winning All-Atlantic Coast Conference that year. He slipped to .236/.380/.299 as a senior but had 68 walks and 72 runs in 73 games. He tier Tyler Thompson for 4th in walks in Division I. He had averaged over a run per game for his collegiate career. He started his professional career with the Tampa Bay Devil Rays, and he hit .300/.372/.375 with 11 steals for the Hudson Valley Renegades in 1998, fielding .927 at short. He tied Brian August for 8th in the New York-Penn League with 48 runs. He and Jared Sandberg were named the NYPL All-Star third basemen.

He batted .284/.389/.307 for the St. Petersburg Devil Rays in 1999 while moving to second base (and fielding .980 there), and he also went 1-for-2 with the Orlando Rays. Badeaux then recorded a .262/.357/.350 batting line in Orlando in 2000, and he had a solid .327/.383/.367 batting line in 33 games for the Durham Bulls. He tied Edgar Gonzalez and Pete LaForest for third in the Rays chain with 7 triples. He stayed in Orlando in 2001 as he hit .249/.304/.304 (now in a utility role), and he played 99 games with a .250/.317/.321 batting line for the Bulls in 2002. He edged Ryan Freel for the most games at second for the AAA club and backed up Andy Sheets at third base. Badeaux recorded a .286/.412/.476 batting line in 13 games in Orlando in 2003, and he also hit .225/.283/.290 with the Bulls.

The Louisiana native improved to .326/.377/.404 in 2004 in 58 games in AAA (splitting second with Jorge Cantú and Luis Ordaz), but he slumped to .236/.274/.341 there in 2005 (backing up Fernando Cortez at 2B). He then represented the USA in the 2005 Baseball World Cup. He hit .222/.300/.278 and handled 25 chances error-free, backing up Brant Ust at 2B and Ben Zobrist at SS. Badeaux went to the Baltimore Orioles chain in 2006, but he struggled there as his batting line was .223/.265/.317 for the Ottawa Lynx and .211/.309/.316 for the Bowie Baysox. He returned to the Rays in his last season as a professional player, and he hit .275/.336/.343 for the Montgomery Biscuits in 2007.

In 891 games as a pro, he had batted .264/.333/.335 with 299 walks and 427 runs in 891 games. He had played over 100 games at 2B (.979), SS (.943), 3B (.962) and OF (.979). He later returned to his old high school as the coach.