Donovan Casey

Donovan Casey

• Bats Right, Throws Right
• Height 6' 2", Weight 223 lb.

• School Boston College
• High School Sterling High School

• Born February 23, 1996 in Stratford, NJ USA

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Biographical Information

Donovan Casey was a phantom major leaguer.

Casey was 7-1 with a 0.11 ERA as a high school junior. His freshman year at college, he hit .298/.341/.381 and pitched 1 2/3 shutout innings. As a sophomore, he hit .273/.348/.364 and had a save and a 1.17 ERA. He was at .221/.283/.269 for the Chatham A's of the Cape Cod League. His junior year, he was 5-2 with five saves and a 2.84 ERA, batting .286/.370/.362 with 39 runs in 53 games.

The Los Angeles Dodgers took him in the 20th round of the 2017 amateur draft and opted to use him solely as an outfielder. He split the summer between the AZL Dodgers (7-for-15, 2B, 3 BB, 9 RBI in 5 G) and the Ogden Raptors (.396/.444/.612, 37 R in 33 G0. In 2018, he played for the AZL Dodgers (.316/.333/.737 in 7 G) and Rancho Cucamonga Quakes (.253/.316/.378 in 62 G).

He had a fine 2019 for Rancho Cucamonga (.271/.335/.509, 20 HR, 80 R in 100 G, 20 SB, 3 CS) and the Tulsa Drillers (.213/.267/.351 in 25 G). He was 6th in the California League in taters, 4th in runs (between Matt Hearn and Jeter Downs), tied Devin Davis and Manuel Geraldo for 3rd in triples (9), 10th in RBI and tied Luis Campusano for second in slugging, .075 behind Luis Castro. He The 20-20 man joined Hearn and Heliot Ramos on the league All-Star outfield. In the Dodgers chain, he was among the leaders in runs (93, 2nd, 6 behind Gavin Lux), triples (2nd, one behind Jeren Kendall), homers (23, tied for 6th with Cody Thomas, DJ Peters and Kyle Garlick), RBI (76, tied Lux and Thomas for 8th) and steals (22, 7th).

After the 2020 minor league season was cancelled due to COVID-19, he began '21 with Tulsa. He hit .296/.362/.462 with 11 homers and 15 steals in 73 games. He was then bundled with Josiah Gray, Keibert Ruiz and Gerardo Carrillo in a deal to the Washington Nationals for Max Scherzer and Trea Turner. After the deal, he appeared for the Harrisburg Senators (.347/.353/.612 in 12 G) and Rochester Red Wings (.179/.245/.291 in 38 G), making it to AAA. In the Arizona Fall League, he posted a .255/.368/.447 line for the Surprise Saguaros.

With the '22 Red Wings, he eked out a .216/.279/.345 line in 84 games. He was briefly called up to the 2022 Nationals early in the season but did not get into a game before being sent back down. In 2023, his woes continued with three different Nationals farm teams, none higher than AA, as he batted a composite .191/.278/.245 with two homers in 73 games and 91 K in 257 AB.

Picked up by the independent York Revolution, he did a dazzling job, batting .348/.398/.575 with 78 runs, 16 homers and 96 RBI in 79 games, going 33-for-36 in steal attempts. He lost the batting title, finishing second, .008 behind Castro. He tied David Washington for 3rd in RBI. That got him another look with the Dodgers chain that summer, but he hit .161/.255/.184 in 30 games for Tulsa. He joined Gaige Howard and Ruby Martin Jr. as the Atlantic League's All-Star outfielders.