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TRAVIS DEMERITTE
FRONT OFFICE • Has primarily played right field, with all but two of • Has made starts at six different positions
in his minor-league career…The majority
his 54 career starts coming from that position…
of his time has come at second base (319
Also started two games in left field, while
appearing in two games as the designated hitter
and one as a pitcher. games)…He has also started games at left
field (153), second base (73), right field
(36), shortstop (25) and center field (1).
• Has just two errors in 130 total chances. • In his last minor-league season, 2019, played
• Has a career 47.2% hard-hit rate – batted balls
MANAGER & STAFF with an exit velocity over 95 mph…For reference, with Triple-A Gwinnett and was an International
League Mid-Season All-Star.
if he enough batted balls to qualify, that total
would place in the top 25 of all major leaguers
• In 96 games before getting traded
over the last two seasons.
percentage and .944 OPS, totals that each
• Made his major-league debut on 8/2/19 at Texas, to Detroit, posted a .558 slugging
against the organization that drafted him in placed fourth in the league.
2013…Began the season with Atlanta’s Triple-A • Named by the Atlanta organization as Double-A
TRAIVS DEMERITTE roster after being acquired in trade. third in the Braves’ farm system in home runs (17)
Mississippi’s Player of the Year in 2018…Finished
affiliate…Went straight to Detroit’s major-league
and walks (57).
• Went 1-for-2 with one triple, two walks
• Also tabbed as Mississippi’s Player of the
and one stolen base, getting the start in
right field and hitting seventh…Became
Month for August.
just the fourth Tigers player to triple in his • In his first full season in Atlanta’s organization,
major-league debut, and the first since 2017, was a Southern League Mid-Season All-Star
Andres Torres on 4/7/02 vs. Cleveland.
with Double-A Mississippi…Played in 124 games
SEASON IN REVIEW • Additionally, was just the seventh player in • In 2016, began the season with the Rangers’
and finished tied for fourth in the Braves’ system
in walks (49) and sixth in home runs (15).
franchise history to draw multiple walks in
his debut, and the first since Lance Parrish
in the second game of a doubleheader on
9/5/77 vs. Baltimore. High-A High Desert club before being traded
to Atlanta in July and finishing the season with
• Also walked twice in his second career High-A Carolina…Had 66 extra-base hits, tied for
PLAYER DEVELOPMENT • Hit his first career home run on 8/8/19 off Kansas • While in the Texas organization, named a
the sixth most among all minor leaguers.
game, 8/3 at Texas…He was the first
Tigers player since at least 1908 to walk
two or more times in each of his first two
California League Mid-Season All-Star.
big-league games.
• Selected to the SiriusXM All-Star Futures
Game in San Diego…Started at second
City RH Josh Staumont…It tied the game at eight
apiece in the seventh inning…Detroit would go base for the United States team and went
0-for-1 with one walk.
on to win, 10-8. • Following the season, played 22 games
• Demeritte also drew a career-best three
BRAVES HISTORY • Has never appeared in a postseason game. Had 12 extra-base hits (4 2B, 4 3B, 4 HR),
for Salt River in the Arizona Fall League…
walks in the game, while scoring a career-
most three runs.
14 RBI and 11 walks…Named to the All-
Prospect Team.
• Has no career game-ending RBI.
positive for a banned substance.
• Has never been on the injured list in his major- • Suspended 80 games in 2015 after testing
league career. • Appeared in 56 games with Adelaide in
• Has only been sidelined once in his minor the Australian Baseball League following
OPPONENTS minor league notes • In 2014, hit 25 home runs to lead the South
the season…Had nine home runs and 36
leagues, missing a week in 2017 with a left
RBI.
great toe blister.
in the minors.
• Has played in 681 minor-league games in parts of Atlantic League, the most among teenage players
seven seasons between the Rangers and Braves • Concluded his first professional season, 2013, as
systems, batting .244/.339/.464 (588-for-2,412) the Rangers’ eighth-best prospect, according to
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with 133 doubles, 28 triples and 114 home runs.