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JOHAN CAMARGO
2020 POSTSEASON • Has made 13 career starts in the outfield,
• Went 2-for-8 with a double, RBI and two walks in all in 2019 (8 in LF, 5 in RF)…Committed FRONT OFFICE
four games, all in the NLCS…Replaced OF Adam only one error in 27 total chances, totaling
Duvall (strained left oblique) on the roster prior 16 games.
to Game 2. • Hit a career-best 19 home runs in 2018, the most
• Began his postseason career 0-for-18… by a Braves third baseman since Chipper Jones
Went 0-for-15 in the 2018 NLDS against had 22 in 2008.
the Dodgers, his only previous postseason • Hit a walk-off homer, his only career
experience. game-ending hit, on 5/29/18 off the Mets’ MANAGER & STAFF
Gerson Bautista…In a 6-6 game in the
• Made the Braves Wild Card Series roster but did
not appear in either game. ninth inning, Camargo hit the first pitch of
the at-bat out to right field.
major league notes • Less than a month later, on 6/19 at
• Has played in 349 games in his four-year major- Toronto, hit his only career grand slam,
league career, hitting .261/.319/.430 (276-for- off LH Jaime García…Finished the game
1,057) with 68 doubles, 34 home runs, 144 RBI 4-for-5 with five RBI from the No. 9 spot...
and 140 runs scored. Since the RBI became an official stat in JOHAN CAMARGO
1920, became just the fourth No. 9 hitter
• Has an .845 OPS as a right-handed batter, in the N.L. to have four hits and five RBI
slugging .506, compared to a .708 OPS in a game (Jack Scott, 1926; Johnny Sain,
from the left side, slugging .398…Twenty- 1946 and Micah Owings, 2007).
one of his 34 career homers have come
as a left-handed hitter, where he has • Made his major league on 4/11/17 at Miami…
taken 71 percent (821-for-1,155) of his Collected his first hit on 4/16, in his third career
career plate appearances. at-bat, a pinch-hit RBI single against the Padres’ SEASON IN REVIEW
Christian Bethancourt.
• Is a career .274/.308/.548 (17-for-62) batter as
a pinch-hitter…His .548 slugging percentage • Hit .299 (72-for-241) in the 2017 season,
is third best among major league pinch hitters tied for second among major league
since the start of the 2017 season (min. 65 plate rookies (min. 200 at-bats).
appearances), bested only by Ian Happ (.625, 69 • Had 21 doubles, all of which came over
PA) and Pat Valaika (.552, 115 PA). his first 77 games with Atlanta, the most
two-base hits through a player’s first 77
• Seven of his 10 pinch-hits in 2019 went PLAYER DEVELOPMENT
for extra bases (3 2B, 4 HR)… Only San games in Atlanta franchise history (since
Francisco’s Pablo Sandoval (10) and 1966).
Pittsburgh’s José Osuna (8) had more • Has been on the injured list three times in his
extra-base pinch hits that season. major-league career, one in each of his first three
seasons.
• With his four pinch-hit home runs that
season, became the fourth player in • Fouled a ball of his shin on 9/11/19,
Braves history to hit at least that many fracturing his shin…Missed the rest of the
pinch-hit homers in a single season…Evan season, including the postseason. BRAVES HISTORY
Gattis (2013) and Tommy Gregg (1990) • Began the 2018 season on the 10-day
also hit four, while Butch Nieman hit a disabled list with a right oblique muscle
franchise-record five for Boston in 1945. strain…Missed 16 games.
• Has hit .298 (74-for-248) in his career with • Suffered a right knee bone bruise on
runners in scoring position, producing an .852 8/9/17 during pre-game warmups…
OPS in those situations, with 28 extra-base hits Activated nearly a month later, on 9/5.
(20 2B, 1 3B, 7 HR). OPPONENTS
• In 2018, had a 1.023 OPS (39-for-115) with minor league notes
runners in scoring position, second best • Named by the organization as Triple-A
in the N.L. among qualified hitters (Votto, Gwinnett’s Player of the Month for May 2017…
1.028). Batted .337 (30-for-89) with 14 RBI in 22 games…
• Has played six positions in his career, all four in Made his major-league debut the previous
the infield and the two corner outfield spots…Has month, on April 11, and was optioned to
played a career-most 185 games at third base. Gwinnett just over a week later. MISCELLANEOUS

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