Brett Gardner Biography

Brett Gardner is an American professional baseball outfielder in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the New York Yankees. He made his MLB debut with the Yankees in 2008 and was a part of the Yankees’ 2009 World Series championship team over the Philadelphia Phillies. He was named an All-Star in 2015 and won a Gold Glove Award in 2016. Gardner is the longest-tenured New York Yankee.

Brett Gardner Age

Brett Michael Gardner was born in Holly Hill, South Carolina on 24th August 1983. He is 35 years as of 2018. He is of White Ethnicity and he holds an American Nationality.

Brett Gardner Family

Brett Michael Gardner was born to father, Jerry Gardner, and mother, Faye Gardner. He has a brother Glen, who is younger to him. His father also played baseball for the Phillies.

His father, Jerry Gardner, who played in the minors for the Phillies, owns a 2,600-acre (1,100 ha) farm in Holly Hill. Brett was raised on the farm by Jerry and his mother, Faye, with his older brother, Glen.

Gardner went to Holly Hill Academy in Holly Hill, South Carolina, where he played baseball for the school’s baseball team. Later in 2001, he attended College of Charleston. He was the three-year starter for his college.

Brett Gardner Wife

Brett is a married man. He and his wife, ‎Jessica Clendenin tied the knot in 2007. Together, they have two sons together. The Gardner’s reside in Summerville, South Carolina.

Brett Gardner Height/ Weight

He has a good height of 5 feet 9 inch and weighs around 88 kg.

Brett Gardner Career

Amateur career

Gardner attended Holly Hill Academy in Holly Hill, South Carolina, where he played for the school’s baseball team. He also played American Legion Baseball for St. George Post 105.

Gardner attended walk-on tryouts for the baseball team at the College of Charleston in 2001. Gardner became a three-year starter for the College of Charleston Cougars. He had a .397 batting average in 2004, his junior year, but he was not selected in the 2004 MLB draft. In 2005, his senior year, he batted .447, tied for the most hits in college baseball with 122, established a Cougars record with 85 runs scored, and led the Southern Conference with 38 stolen bases.

Professional career

After his senior year in college, the New York Yankees selected Gardner in the 3rd round, with the 109th overall selection, of the 2005 Major League Baseball draft. Gardner received a $210,000 signing bonus.

Minor leagues

Gardner completed the 2005 season in the New York–Penn League season positioning fifth in at-bats (with 282), second in runs (62), and fifth in stolen bases (19). He was a Florida State League All-Star in 2006, batting .323 out of 63 diversions with 22 RBIs with the Tampa Yankees. He was third in the Florida State League in batting normal and drove the alliance in stolen bases with 30. Additionally, he was second in the group in walks with 47.

In 2007, he played 54 recreations for the Double-A Trenton Thunder, however, he missed time with a wrecked bone in his grasp. In 203 at-bats, he stole 18 bases (tied for fifth in the group; while being gotten multiple times), hit five triples, and batted .300 with a .392 OBP, before being elevated to the Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre Yankees. There, in 45 recreations, he batted .260 with a .343 OBP and stole 21 bases while being gotten just multiple times.

In fall 2007, he played in 26 diversions in the Arizona Fall League, driving it in runs (27) and stolen bases (16), while being discovered taking just once. He batted .343 (fifth in the alliance) with a .433 OBP (third) and was third in the class in strolls with 17. In 2007, he was the twelfth best prospect in the Yankee’s small-time framework agreeing to Baseball America.

Playing for Scranton/Wilkes-Barre in 2008, in 94 recreations Gardner was second in the International League with a .414 on-base rate, 70 strolls, 11 significantly increases, and was sixth in the IL with 37 stolen bases, while being gotten just multiple times.

Through 2008 in the small time, he had a .291 batting normal and a .389 OBP. He had stolen 153 bases, being gotten just multiple times (an 83% achievement rate).

New York Yankees

2015: All-Star season

Gardner was named AL Player of the Week for the week ending June 28, 2015. He was one of the five candidates chosen for the All-Star Final Vote for the 2015 MLB All-Star Game. Later removed from the ballot after being chosen to replace the injured Alex Gordon on the All-Star team. His hot first half would not last the whole season; after batting .302 up to the All-Star break, he struggled for the rest of the year, hitting .206 in the second half of the season. After going 0–4 with 3 strikeouts in the Yankees’ 3–0 loss to the Houston Astros in the 2015 AL Wild Card Game. Gardner received a loud roar of boos from fans at Yankee Stadium.

In 2015, Gardner continued his hitting approach from the prior season, batting .259 with 16 home runs, 66 RBI, and 20 stolen bases.

2016: Gold Glove season

Gardner was moved into the Yankees’ leadoff spot midseason after traditionally hitting behind Jacoby Ellsbury during Ellsbury’s tenure as a Yankee. On April 23, he hit a walk-off home run against the Tampa Bay Rays. Gardner’s on-base percentage in 2016 was .351, his highest in a full season since 2010, and his 70 walks were his most since that same season. However, his .713 OPS was tied with 2011 for his lowest career mark in a full season. For the 2016 season, Gardner hit .261 with 7 home runs, 41 RBI, and 16 stolen bases. His home run and RBI count were the lowest in a full season since 2011, while he recorded the lowest stolen base count of his career in a full season. He won the Gold Glove Award for American League left fielders.

2017

On April 12, 2017, Gardner collided with Rickie Weeks at a respectable starting base, and the two players left the game. Gardner did not support genuine damage and left away just with a wounded jaw and stressed neck. The Yankees recorded him as day-to-day. On April 29, Gardner hit 2 grand slams in a 12–4 prevail upon the Baltimore Orioles.

On May 2, Gardner had another two home run game in an 11–5 prevail upon the Toronto Blue Jays. Again on May 5, with the Yankees down to their last strike, Gardner hit a thumbs up three-run homer off of Hector Rondon. This demonstrated to be the game victor as the Yankees won 3-2 over the Chicago Cubs. On June 1, he gathered the 1,000th hit of his vocation off Marco Estrada of the Toronto Blue Jays. On June 30, Gardner went 3-for-5 with an amazing hammer and 6 RBIs, tying his profession high, while falling a triple shy of the cycle. Still, on July 27, he hit his eighteenth grand slam of the period, a stroll off against the Tampa Bay Rays, setting another profession high for single-season home runs.

The following day, Gardner began the game with a leadoff home run. Gardner hit a stroll off single on July 29 with the bases stacked in the base of the ninth. Gardner hit a vocation high 21 homers, recording 23 takes and a .264 normal as the Yankees made the playoffs and completed one game short of the World Series. He was recorded as a Gold Glove finalist at the end of the day lost to Alex Gordon of the Kansas City Royals.

2018

Gardner entered the 2018 season as an individual from a packed outfield. Be that as it may, because of wounds to Jacoby Ellsbury, (who missed the whole 2018 season with different ailments). Clint Frazier, who endured a blackout in spring preparing that sidelined him for the greater part of the period, and Aaron Judge (who missed two months with wrist damage). Gardner saw more playing time than initially anticipated, showing up in 140 diversions. He completed the season batting .236 (his most noticeably terrible normal since 2008), with 12 homers and 45 RBIs. On October 31, 2018, the Yankees declared they had declined his $12.5 million alternatives for 2019, and rather re-marked him to a one-year, $7.5 million contract for the 2019 season.

2019

On April 17, Gardner hit his 100th career home run, a grand slam off Ryan Brasier. He became one of two players in Yankees history (alongside Derek Jeter) with 100-plus home runs and 250-plus stolen bases.

Brett Gardner Salary

Brett is an American professional baseball outfielder in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the New York Yankees. In 2015, he was named All-Star and won a Gold Glove Award in 2016. He receives a salary of ‎$11 million and an estimated net worth of ‎$25 million.

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