Thursday, February 1, 2024

#193 Royce Clayton


ANTICIPATING : transitive verb : \ an-ˈti-sə-ˌpāt 

: to give advance thought, discussion, or treatment to

Royce was often found deep in thought, anticipating which team he would be on next (see below).

Batting average .258
Home runs 110
Runs batted in 723

San Francisco Giants (1991–1995)
St. Louis Cardinals (1996–1998)
Texas Rangers (1998–2000)
Chicago White Sox (2001–2002)
Milwaukee Brewers (2003)
Colorado Rockies (2004)
Arizona Diamondbacks (2005)
Washington Nationals (2006)
Cincinnati Reds (2006)
Toronto Blue Jays (2007)
Boston Red Sox (2007)

All-Star (1997)
Started entertainment companies that worked to develop walk up music for batters and theme songs for players.
First player struck out by Jim Morris, as portrayed in the move The Rookie.
Portrayed Miguel Tejada in the 2011 film Moneyball.

 

3 comments:

  1. Interesting photo on the front. Interesting career too!

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  2. Those sunglasses arms are long! Anyways... I watched him play a few times when he was with the SJ Giants. He was a pretty popular prospect back then.

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