Scott Bryant

Scott Walter Bryant

• Bats Right, Throws Right
• Height 6' 3", Weight 215 lb.
• School University of Texas at Austin
• High School Winston Churchill High School (San Antonio)

• Born October 31, 1967 in Austin, TX USA

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Biographical Information

Scott Bryant was the recipient of the Dick Howser Trophy in 1989 as a junior at the University of Texas. He batted .388 with 18 home runs, a nation leading 108 RBI, 31 doubles and only 21 strikeouts in 242 at bats. He led Texas to the championship game in the College World Series that year, which they lost to Wichita State University. He was also selected by the Cincinnati Reds in the first round (20th overall) of the 1989 amateur draft. He never made it to the major leagues.

He played his first three seasons, from 1989 to 1991, in the Reds' organization, reaching AA with the Chattanooga Lookouts in only his second season as a pro. He hit a solid .283/.409/.551 in 111 games between the Class A Cedar Rapids Reds and Chattanooga that year, banging 20 doubles and as many homers, then followed that with a .304 average in 91 games for the Lookouts in 1991. After the season, he was traded to the Chicago Cubs in return for another top draft pick who never made it to the Show, Ty Griffin. He played most of the 1992 season with the AAA Iowa Cubs but hit a disappointing .245 in 104 games, although the power was still there with 22 doubles and 18 homers.

His career then began to take a nomadic course as he spent 1993 with the Ottawa Lynx, the AAA affiliate of the Montreal Expos, following a trade for P Chris Johnson. He played regularly in the outfield, hitting .283 with 12 homers and 65 RBIs in 112 games, but the organization was teeming with promising young outfielders, including Rondell White, Cliff Floyd, Curtis Pride, Glenn Murray, Tyrone Woods and Tyrone Horne, and he was completely lost in the shuffle. In 1994, he was with the Calgary Cannons in the Pacific Coast League, in the Seattle Mariners system, where he hit well again: .320/.375/.555 in 105 games, with 32 doubles, 20 homers and 87 RBIs. The 1994 strike likely cost him his best chance at making an appearance in the majors, as there were no September call-ups that year. In 1995, he moved to the Oakland Athletics and another Canada-based AAA team, the Edmonton Trappers. His numbers fell somewhat, to .288/.359/.458 in 119 games, with 33 doubles but only 10 homers. By 1996, he was reduced to the role of minor league filler, appearing for the Oklahoma City 89ers in the Texas Rangers system and the Tacoma Rainiers of the Mariners' organization, combining to hit .267 but with just 2 homers in 70 games. He is also listed as signing with the Olmecas de Tabasco in the Mexican League in between the two AAA stops, but league statistics do not include his name. In 1997, he moved to the independent leagues with the St. Paul Saints of the Northern League. He surged back to hit .304/.369/.545 with 30 doubles and 17 homers, but this was a player with five full seasons of AAA experience playing in an indy league. He gave it one last shot in 1998, with the Langosteros de Cancún back in the Mexican League, where he hit .295 in 56 games, but with only 1 homer.

In 2009, his former alma mater retired his uniform number, 25, alongside those of three other legends from the program: Burt Hooton, Brooks Kieschnick and Greg Swindell. At the time, he still held the school's single-season records for doubles (32), total bases (199) and RBI (112), and for most doubles in a game (4).

Further Reading

• Georgia Latcham: "Baseball set to retire Scott Bryant's No. 25 on Saturday", Texassports.com, May 7, 2009. [1]

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