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- Early Life
- Professional Career
- Personal Life
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Amateur career
Taylor attended Great Neck Middle School in Virginia Beach, Virginia, where he was on the wrestling team, and won a city wrestling championship. When he attended Frank W. Cox High School, also in Virginia Beach, he stopped wrestling to focus on baseball. He was named the All-Tidewater regionplayer of the year in 2009. Taylor was recruited to play college baseball by the University of Virginia and the College of William & Mary. He chose to attend Virginia, and played college baseball for the V...
Minor leagues
The Seattle Mariners selected Taylor in the fifth round of the 2012 Major League Baseball draft. He began his professional career in Minor League Baseball at the Rookie level, but was soon promoted to Class A, primarily playing shortstop. In 2013, Taylor played for the High Desert Mavericks of the Class A-Advanced California League and Jackson Generals of the Class AA Southern League, finishing the season with a combined .314 batting average, 165 hits (eighth-best in Minor League Baseball), e...
Seattle Mariners
The Mariners invited Taylor to spring training in 2014. Following spring training, he was assigned to the Tacoma Rainiers of the Class AAA Pacific Coast League (PCL). He appeared in the Triple-A All-Star Game, and was named the PCL's Top Star. After batting .328 with five home runs, 37 RBIs, and 63 runs scored in 75 games while playing shortstop and second base, the Mariners promoted Taylor to the major leagues on July 24 to replace the injured Willie Bloomquist. He collected his first major-...
Los Angeles Dodgers
On June 19, 2016, the Mariners traded Taylor to the Los Angeles Dodgers in exchange for Zach Lee. Seattle Mariners General Manager Jerry Dipotowould later regret making this trade by calling it "clearly the worst deal I've ever made." On July 15, 2016, Taylor hit his first major league career home run, a grand slam, off Silvino Bracho of the Arizona Diamondbacks. He also had a double, a triple, drove in six runs, and fell just short of hitting for the cycle. He was the third Dodgers player in...
Taylor's father, Chris Sr., and grandfather, Armand, attended Virginia Tech, where they competed on the wrestling team. Taylor married Mary Keller in December 2022 in Waialua, Hawaii.
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- August 29, 1990
Seattle Mariners sent SS Chris Taylor on a rehab assignment to Tacoma Rainiers. April 4, 2015: Chris Taylor roster status changed by Seattle Mariners. July 24, 2014: Seattle Mariners selected the contract of SS Chris Taylor from Tacoma Rainiers. July 15, 2014: SS Chris Taylor assigned to Pacific Coast League All-Stars. June 10, 2014
22 de out. de 2021 · Chris Taylor, the hero of the Dodgers' wild-card win, transformed the team from playoff zombies to NLCS-winning hopefuls with his three-home run game.
- bill.plaschke@latimes.com
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18 de jul. de 2023 · Taylor showed that clutch ability once again, smacking a go-ahead grand slam to cap a five-run sixth inning in the Dodgers’ 6-4 win over the Orioles on Monday night at Camden Yards.
18 de jul. de 2023 · Chris Taylor hits a grand slam home run off Baltimore pitcher Bryan Baker in the sixth inning to push the Dodgers to a 6-4 victory at Camden Yards.
