Garrett Stubbs

Garrett Patrick Stubbs (born May 26, 1993) is an American professional baseball catcher for the Philadelphia Phillies of Major League Baseball (MLB).

He previously played in MLB for the Houston Astros.

Stubbs attended the University of Southern California (USC), and played college baseball for the USC Trojans.

During his senior season in 2011, Stubbs batted .391 with 27 runs scored, 13 doubles, and 18 runs batted in (RBIs).

He earned both All-North County and All-Avocado League First Team honors as both a junior and senior.

Stubbs attended the University of Southern California (USC), where he earned a degree in policy planning and development with an emphasis on real estate, and played college baseball for the USC Trojans.

In the summer of 2012, he played for the Peninsula Oilers in the Alaska Baseball League.

In 2013 as a sophomore, he was an Honorable Mention for the All-Pac-12 Conference team.

In the summer of 2013, he played for the Plymouth Pilgrims in the New England Collegiate Baseball League, and was named a New England Collegiate Baseball League Eastern Division All-Star.

Later that summer he played for the Cotuit Kettleers of the Cape Cod League.

After his junior year, when Stubbs became eligible to be selected in the Major League Baseball (MLB) draft, he made it known that he intended to return to college for his senior year.

While there, he won the 2015 Johnny Bench Award as the nation's best collegiate catcher.

The Astros selected Stubbs in the eighth round of the 2015 MLB Draft.

In 2015, his senior year at USC, Stubbs batted .346 (6th in the Pac-12 Conference) and tied for the conference lead in sacrifices (17), while coming in 3rd in steals (20), 5th in runs (51) and OBP (.435), and tied for 7th in doubles (15), as on defense he threw out 52.8% of attempted basestealers and made 3 errors in 468 chances.

Stubbs won the Johnny Bench Award as the best catcher in college baseball, and was named the Pac-12 Conference's Defensive Player of the Year, Baseball America First-Team All-American, Rawlings First-Team All-American, and Jewish Sports Review College Baseball All American.

The Houston Astros selected Stubbs in the eighth round of the 2015 MLB draft.

He signed with the Astros for a signing bonus of $100,000, and made his professional debut with the Tri-City ValleyCats of the Class A-Short Season New York–Penn League.

After 11 games with Tri-City, the Astros promoted Stubbs to the Quad Cities River Bandits of the Class A Midwest League.

He batted a combined .263 with seven home runs and 21 RBIs in 36 games with both teams.

In 2016, Stubbs began the season with the Lancaster JetHawks of the Class A-Advanced California League, with whom he was a California League Mid-Season All Star, before receiving a promotion to the Corpus Christi Hooks of the Class AA Texas League in July.

Stubbs finished 2016 with an aggregate .304 batting average, along with 10 home runs, 54 RBIs, and 15 stolen bases in 18 attempts, while on defense he threw out 51% of attempted base stealers.

He was named an milb.com Houston Organization All Star.

After the season, the Astros assigned Stubbs to the Glendale Desert Dogs of the Arizona Fall League.

In 2017, MLB Pipeline named him the best catcher in the Astros' minor league system, and the organization's 11th-best prospect overall.

Stubbs began the season with Corpus Christi, where he batted .236 with four home runs and 25 RBIs.

He was a AA Texas League starting All Star, and in the game he tripled and drove in three runs for the winning South.

Baseball America named him the best defensive catcher in the Texas League.

Stubbs was promoted to the Fresno Grizzlies of the Class AAA Pacific Coast League in August, where he posted a .221 batting average with four home runs and 37 RBIs; between the two teams he had 11 stolen bases in 11 attempts.

He made his major league debut in 2019.

Stubbs played for Team Israel in the 2023 World Baseball Classic.

Stubbs was born in San Diego, California, and was raised in neighboring Del Mar by parents T. Pat and Marti Jo Stubbs.

Born to a Catholic father and Jewish mother, Stubbs is Jewish, and was one of a record-setting four Jewish MLB players to appear in the 2021 World Series.

Garrett and his younger brother C.J. were both active children; they began playing baseball at a young age but were also involved in music, art competitions, and theater.

When Stubbs was a child, the only opportunity for children his age to play baseball was through a Little League organization, and so his father organized a traveling team for local players to continue their development outside of the Little League season.

Additionally, Stubbs's step-grandfather Fred Shuey was a successful college baseball player, and Shuey arranged for a young Stubbs to practice his technique with former Major League Baseball (MLB) catcher Ed Herrmann.

Both Stubbs brothers caught for Torrey Pines High School.

His younger brother C.J., who followed Stubbs through Torrey Pines and USC, was taken by the Astros in the 10th round of the 2019 MLB Draft, and has played primarily catcher in the minors, while also playing first base and corner outfield.

During the baseball offseason, Stubbs lives in California with Matt Chapman, the former third baseman for the Oakland Athletics, and now with the Toronto Blue Jays.

Stubbs attended Torrey Pines High School in San Diego, California.

In high school, despite being small for a catcher, standing 5 ft and weighing only 165 lbs, Stubbs was a two-time All-California Interscholastic Federation Team honoree.