Xavier Avery

Xavier Tyrone Avery

• Bats Left, Throws Left
• Height 6' 0", Weight 190 lb.
• High School Cedar Grove High School
• Debut May 13, 2012
• Final Game October 1, 2012
• Born January 1, 1990 in Atlanta, GA USA

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Biographical Information

Outfielder Xavier Avery played one big league season, with the Baltimore Orioles in 2012.

Avery turned down a football scholarship at the University of Georgia to sign with the Orioles for a reported $900,000 after being their second round selection in the 2008 amateur draft; the signing scout was Dave Jennings. A good hitter for average with excellent speed but limited power, Xavier hit .280 in 47 games for the GCL Orioles in 2008. In 2009, he made the jump to the full season Delmarva Shorebirds of the South Atlantic League and held his own, with a .262 batting average in 129 games, 30 steals, and his first two professional homers. He started 2010 with the Frederick Keys of the Carolina League, where he hit .280 in 109 games, earning a late-season promotion to the Double A Bowie BaySox. In 27 games in the Eastern League, he hit .234 with 3 homers and 18 RBI, a very encouraging performance for someone who was only 20 and already playing at the Double A level. He spent all of 2011 with Bowie, where he hit .259 with 31 doubles and 36 steals in 138 games and making the midseason Eastern League All-Star team.

Xavier moved up to Triple A to start 2012 with the Norfolk Tides in the International League. He was hitting .273 with 6 doubles and 5 homers in 33 games when he got the call to Baltimore after his team's game on May 12th. He was immediately inserted in the starting lineup the next day, batting lead-off against the Tampa Bay Rays. In his debut, he went 0 for 4 with a strikeout. I n 32 games in the bigs (107 plate appearances), he batted .223/.305/.340 with a home run and 6 RBI. Apart from a brief stint back in Bowie in 2013, Xavier spent the next six seasons entirely at the Triple A level, bouncing from the Orioles to the Seattle Mariners to the Minnesota Twins to the San Francisco Giants to the Detroit Tigers back to Baltimore's chain before two years in the Atlanta Braves system wrapped his days in organized ball. In seven Triple A seasons (732 games), he batted .260/.341/.384 with 51 home runs and 240 RBI.

Related Sites

• Xavier Avery on mlb.com