Nick Quintana

Nicholas Ryan Quintana

• Bats Right, Throws Right
• Height 5' 10", Weight 180 lb.
• School University of Arizona
• High School Arbor View High School

• Born October 13, 1997 in Las Vegas, NV USA

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Biographical Information

Las Vegas, NV native Nick Quintana was drafted in the 2nd round of the 2019 amateur draft by the Detroit Tigers out of the University of Arizona. He had previously been picked in the 11th round on the 2016 amateur draft, by the Boston Red Sox, but decided to continue on to college.

He had a very successful college career, being a starter at third base all three years he was at the University of Arizona and hitting a total of 35 homers. As a junior in 2019, he was named to the All-Pac 12 Conference team after batting .342 with 15 homers, 65 runs and 77 RBIs. Things did not go so well when he began his professional career that summer with the West Michigan Whitecaps of the Midwest League, as he bated just .158 in 41 games; however he did better following a demotion to the Connecticut Tigers of the New York-Penn League, where his average climbed to .256. He then had to sit out all of 2020 because the Coronavirus pandemic wiped out the minor league season. He returned in 2021 to hit .196/.329/.346 in 82 games for the Lakeland Flying Tigers of the re-named and re-leveled Low-A Southeast, also playing a few games on a rehabilitation assignment in the Florida Complex League.

Given his disappointing offensive production in his first two seasons in the minors, he was not on the Tigers' top 30 prospect list when on November 3, 2021, he was traded to the Cincinnati Reds in return for C Tucker Barnhart. Still, given his success in a top college program and his recent status as a high draft pick, he represented an interesting gamble for the Reds to take.

His brother Zach Quintana pitched in the minor leagues from 2012 to 2016. He was a member of the USA junior national baseball team in high school and won a Gold Medal at the 2015 U-18 Baseball World Cup in Osaka, Japan.

Related Sites

• University of Arizona bio