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2011
◆ ◆ In fifth season with the Diamondbacks, was tabbed as a National League All-Star for the second time in career...
Finished fourth in the N.L. MVP vote (Ryan Braun).
◆ ◆ Captured first Louisville Silver Slugger Award and was named to The Sporting News N.L. All-Star Team.
◆ ◆ Logged a career-best 31 home runs to become just the 10th player in franchise history to reach the 30-homer mark...
Finished in the National League’s top 10 in several categories, including doubles (39, 2nd), runs scored (105, T3rd),
extra-base hits (75, T3rd), home runs (9th) and slugging (.529, 1st).
◆ ◆ Became the 15th player all time to record 20 steals and 30 home runs prior to age-24 season...He and brother Melvin
were the first set of brothers to reach the 20 HR/20 SB mark in the same season.
◆ ◆ Won first career N.L. Player of the Week Award for the period ending June 19 after batting .552 (16/29) with a home
run and seven RBI...Shared N.L. Player of the Week honors with Cameron Maybin for the period ending July 24.
2010
◆ ◆ Played in 133 games in fourth season with Arizona...Named the Diamondbacks’ nominee for the Roberto Clemente
Award.
◆ ◆ Recorded a career-best .985 fielding percentage after committing just four errors...Had a career-best, 47-game
errorless streak from Apr. 23-June 16.
2009
◆ ◆ In third big league season (first full) with Arizona, set career-highs in batting average (.300), slugging percentage
(.532) and triples (7).
◆ ◆ Joined Orlando Cepeda (1959) as the only player in MLB history to hit at least .300 with 25 home runs, 80 RBI and 20
stolen bases in a season prior to their age-22 season.
◆ ◆ Named for first career All-Star Team after batting .301 (95/316) with 19 doubles, five triples, 16 home runs and 51 RBI
in the first half of the season.
◆ ◆ Named the National League Player of the Month for May after batting .373 (41/110) with 25 runs scored, eight doubles,
four triples, seven home runs and 21 RBI.
◆ ◆ Placed on the disabled list Aug. 6-26 with a right rib cage muscle strain.
2008
◆ ◆ Limited to 108 games in second season with the Diamondbacks but was the youngest player in franchise history to
tally 15 doubles and 15 home runs in a season. upton
◆ ◆ Logged five home runs through the Club’s first 11 games...Only third player in Major League history under 21 to turn
the trick.
◆ ◆ Placed on the D.L. from July 9-Aug. 29 with a left oblique muscle strain.
2007
◆ ◆ Appeared in 103 games between Double-A Mobile and Single-A Visalia before making Major League debut with
Arizona Aug. 2 in San Diego...At 19 years, 342 days, was the youngest Diamondback to ever appear in a game.
◆ ◆ Tallied first hit Aug. 4 at Los Angeles (N.L)...Hit first home run Aug. 7 vs. Pittsburgh and finished a single shy of becoming
the youngest player in Major League history to hit for the cycle.
POSTSEASON EXPERIENCE
◆ ◆ Has made appearances in three different postseasons, going 11-for-48 (.229) with two doubles, a triple, two
home runs and four RBI...In 2013, started in all four of Atlanta’s games during the Division Series against the Dodgers,
batting .143 (2/14) with a double and four walks...During the 2011 NLDS vs. Milwaukee, went 4-for-20 (.200), including
his first two career postseason home runs...Homered in Game 2 and Game 5 in Milwaukee...Made postseason debut
with the Diamondbacks in 2007 at age 20...Went 3-for-5 (.600) with an RBI in Arizona’s Division Series win over the
Cubs...Batted .222 (2/9) with a double and triple in four games during the NLCS vs. Colorado.
Division Series Totals
Year Club, Opp AVG G AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SH SF HBP BB IBB SO SB CS GDP SLG OBP E
2007— ARI, CHC .600 2 5 2 3 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 3 0 0 1 0 0 .600 .750 0
2011— ARI, MIL .200 5 20 3 4 0 0 2 3 0 0 0 3 0 6 0 0 0 .500 .304 0
2013— ATL, LAD .600 2 5 2 3 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 3 0 0 1 0 0 .600 .750 0
Totals .231 11 39 7 9 1 0 2 4 0 0 0 10 0 10 1 0 0 .410 .388 0
Championship Series Totals
Year Club, Opp AVG G AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SH SF HBP BB IBB SO SB CS GDP SLG OBP E
2007— ARI, CHC .222 4 9 0 2 1 1 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 3 0 0 0 .556 .364 0
NOTABLE MINOR LEAGUE AWARDS AND HONORS

◆ ◆ 2007 USA Today’s Minor League Player of the Year...Baseball America Minor League and Double-A All-Star...Baseball
America’s California League and Southern League Top Prospect...Southern League’s Mid-Season and Post-Season All-
Star...California League Player of the Week (Apr. 29)...Southern League Player of the Week (June 3).
◆ ◆ 2006 Midwest League Mid-Season All-Star...Ranked as Arizona’s No. 1 prospect and baseball’s ninth-best prospect
by Baseball America.

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