Michael Conforto

He batted .331(5th in the league)/.403(5th)/.448 with 3 home runs, 19 RBIs, and 5 hit-by-pitch (8th) in 163 at bats.

He was named a Baseball America Short-Season All Star.

Conforto finished the season hitting .345(4th)/.504(1st).547(2nd) with 52 runs (1st), 16 doubles (3rd), seven home runs (3rd), 56 RBIs (2nd), and 55 walks (1st), and 12 hit-by-pitch (9th) in 203 at bats over 59 games.

He again was named the Pac-12 Baseball Player of the Year.

He was also a finalist for the Golden Spikes Award and the Dick Howser Trophy.

Michael Thomas Conforto (born March 1, 1993), nicknamed "Scooter", is an American professional baseball outfielder for the San Francisco Giants of Major League Baseball (MLB).

He has previously played in MLB for the New York Mets.

He made his debut later that day, picking up his first major league RBI on a groundout, but going 0-for-3 while becoming the 1,000th player to appear in a game for the Mets.

The next day, he collected his first major league hit - an RBI infield hit - as part of a four-hit game.

He hit his first major-league home run on August 3 off Marlins' starter Tom Koehler.

He finished the season batting .270/.335/.506 with 30 runs, 9 home runs, and 26 RBIs in 174 at bats over 56 games played, and was in the top 3% in the major leagues with a maximum exit velocity of 115.0 mph.

Conforto represented the Northwest Region in the Little League World Series in 2004.

He attended Redmond High School in Redmond, Washington, where he was an honor roll student.

He played shortstop on the baseball team, and quarterback and safety on the football team.

In football, he was named second-team All-State.

As a football player, Conforto was recruited by Ivy League schools.

In baseball, he batted .310 as a sophomore, .361 as a junior (when he was All-State), and .400 as a senior (when he was named All-State and All-League).

Meanwhile, Conforto received offers to play baseball at Oregon, Arizona, Arizona State, Washington, Washington State, Stanford, and Oregon State.

As a freshman at Oregon State University in 2012, Conforto hit .349(8th in the Pac-12)/.437(7th)/.601(1st) with 13 home runs (tied for 1st), 12 hit-by-pitch (7th), and led the Pac-12 with 76 runs batted in (RBIs) in 218 at bats over 58 games.

His 76 RBIs were an Oregon State single-season record.

He was named Freshman Hitter of the Year by the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association (NCBWA) and was the Pac-12 Freshman of the Year.

During the summer he played for the USA Baseball Collegiate National Team.

As a sophomore in 2013, Conforto hit .328/.447(2nd)/.526(8th) with 48 runs (7th), 14 doubles (8th), 11 home runs (tied for 1st), 47 RBIs (7th), 41 walks (1st), and 14 hit-by-pitch (5th) in 247 at bats over 65 games.

He helped lead the team to the College World Series, where he went 7-for-16 and was named to the All-Tournament Team.

He was named the Pac-12 Player of the Year, and was named a first-team All-American by the American Baseball Coaches Association (ABCA).

He again played for the USA Baseball Collegiate National Team during the summer in 2013.

After Conforto played college baseball for the Oregon State Beavers, the Mets selected him in the first round of the 2014 MLB draft with the 10th overall pick.

Prior to the 2014 season, he was named the preseason Sporting News College Baseball Player of the Year.

The New York Mets selected Conforto in the first round, with the 10th overall selection, of the 2014 Major League Baseball draft.

Conforto signed with the Mets on July 11, 2014, receiving a $2,970,800 signing bonus.

He played for the Brooklyn Cyclones of the Class A-Short Season New York–Penn League after he signed.

He made his MLB debut in 2015.

Conforto started the 2015 season with the St. Lucie Mets of the Class A-Advanced Florida State League, for whom he batted .283/.350/.462(4th in the league) with 7 home runs and 28 RBIs in 206 at bats, as he led the league with six intentional walks.

He was promoted to the Binghamton Mets of the Class AA Eastern League on June 26, 2015, for whom he batted .312/.396(8th in the league)/.503 with 5 home runs and 26 RBIs in 197 at bats.

On July 12, 2015 at Great American Ball Park in Cincinnati, he started in left field for the United States team at the All-Star Futures Game and collected two hits and one assist.

He was named an FSL Mid-Season All Star, and to the 2015 Topps Rookie All-Star team.

On July 24, 2015, the Mets promoted Conforto to the major leagues.

In 2016 with AAA Las Vegas in the Pacific Coast League Conforto batted .422(leading the PCL)/.483(first)/.727(2nd) with 30 runs, 9 home runs, and 28 RBIs with a 1.209 OPS in 128 at bats.

He was an All-Star in 2017, and an All-MLB Second Team outfielder in 2020.

He became a free agent after the 2021 season, but missed the 2022 season due to a shoulder injury.