Jim Eisenreich
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Eisenreich at the Philadelphia Phillies Alumni Night in 2009
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| Outfielder | |||
| Born: April 18, 1959 St. Cloud, Minnesota |
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| MLB debut | |||
| April 6, 1982, for the Minnesota Twins | |||
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| September 26, 1998, for the Los Angeles Dodgers | |||
| MLB statistics | |||
| Batting average | .290 | ||
| Home runs | 52 | ||
| Runs batted in | 477 | ||
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James Michael Eisenreich (/ˈaɪzᵻnraɪk/; born April 18, 1959) is an American former Major League Baseball player with a 15-year career from 1982–1984 and 1987–1998. He played for the Minnesota Twins and Kansas City Royals of the American League, and the Philadelphia Phillies, Florida Marlins and Los Angeles Dodgers of the National League. He played first base, outfield and designated hitter.
Major league career
In 1993, his first year with the Phillies, Eisenreich put together one of his best years, batting .318 and helping the Phillies to win the National League pennant. As the Phillies began their slide the next season, Eisenreich was one of the team's few bright spots, batting .361 for the last place Phillies in 1996.
Eisenreich was part of a "blockbuster" baseball trade[1] on May 14, 1998. He was traded from the Florida Marlins, with Bobby Bonilla, Gary Sheffield, Charles Johnson, and Manuel Barrios, to the Los Angeles Dodgers for Todd Zeile and catcher Mike Piazza.
Eisenreich was noted in Los Angeles for his longtime success against Dodger pitching staffs, despite those staffs being among the best. His .405 batting average and .620 slugging percentage greatly exceed his other career numbers and rank among the most successful of any one player against any team.[2]
Personal life
Eisenreich has Tourette syndrome (TS),[3] which caused him to go on to the voluntary retirement list between 1984 and 1987 while undergoing treatment. Eisenreich was replaced on the Twins roster by Kirby Puckett. In 1990, he was the first recipient of the Tony Conigliaro Award, which is given annually to a Major League Baseball player who has overcome a significant obstacle in life.[4]
He also is an inductee of the Baseball Reliquary Shrine of the Eternals.[5]
Eisenreich resides in the Kansas City area and runs the Jim Eisenreich Foundation for Children with Tourette's Syndrome whose goal is to help children with TS to achieve personal success.[3]
References
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