Mookie Betts

Mookie Betts
Mookie Betts
	Betts with the Los Angeles Dodgers in 2023
Los Angeles Dodgers – No. 50
	Outfielder / Second baseman / Shortstop
	Born: October 7, 1992 (age 31); Nashville, Tennessee, U.S.
	Bats: Right Throws: Right
MLB debut
	June 29, 2014, for the Boston Red Sox
MLB statistics ; (through June 7, 2024)
Batting average	.295
Hits	1,564
Home runs	262
Runs batted in	791
Stolen bases	181
Teams
	Boston Red Sox (2014–2019); Los Angeles Dodgers (2020–present);
Career highlights and awards
	7× All-Star (2016–2019, 2021–2023); 2× World Series champion (2018, 2020); AL MVP (2018); 3× All-MLB First Team (2020, 2022, 2023); All-MLB Second Team (2019); 6× Silver Slugger Award (2016, 2018–2020, 2022, 2023); 6× Gold Glove Award (2016–2020, 2022); 6x Fielding Bible Award (2016–2018, 2020, 2022–2023); 2× Wilson Defensive Player of the Year Award (2016, 2018); AL batting champion (2018); 3× Runs scored leader (2018, 2019, 2022); 30–30 club (2018);
Medals
Men's baseball
Representing United States
World Baseball Classic

Markus Lynn "Mookie" Betts (born October 7, 1992) is an American professional baseball outfielder, shortstop, and second baseman for the Los Angeles Dodgers of Major League Baseball (MLB). He has previously played in MLB for the Boston Red Sox. In 2018, while with the Red Sox, he became the first player in MLB history to win the Most Valuable Player, Silver Slugger, Gold Glove, batting title, and World Series all in the same season.^[1]

Betts was drafted by the Red Sox in 2011, and made his MLB debut in the 2014 season,^[2] splitting time between second base and the outfield. He became the Red Sox center fielder in 2014, before moving to right field in 2016.^[3] As a relatively short natural second baseman with a high contact rate and a high level of production when pulling the ball, Betts has been compared to former Red Sox teammate Dustin Pedroia.^[4]^[5]

Outside of baseball, Betts is also a professional ten-pin bowler for the Professional Bowlers Association (PBA). He bowled a perfect game in the World Series of Bowling in 2017.^[6]

^ "Mookie Betts Makes History By Winning 2018 AL MVP Award To Cap Remarkable Season". NESN.com. November 15, 2018. Retrieved December 30, 2018. Mookie Betts is the first player to win all of these in the same season: World Series, MVP, Gold Glove, Silver Slugger, batting title.
^ "Mookie Betts Statistics and History | Baseball-Reference.com". Baseball-Reference.com. Retrieved May 16, 2016.
^ "Mookie Betts » Statistics » Batting » Fielding | FanGraphs Baseball". www.fangraphs.com. Retrieved May 16, 2016.
^ "Mookie Betts Is Dustin Pedroia All Over Again | FanGraphs Baseball". www.fangraphs.com. April 7, 2016. Retrieved May 16, 2016.
^ "Major League Leaderboards » 2015 » Batters » Zone Contact | FanGraphs Baseball". www.fangraphs.com. Retrieved May 16, 2016.
^ Wiseman, Lucas (October 29, 2018). "PBA Member Mookie Betts Is A World Series Champion". www.flobowling.com. Archived from the original on March 29, 2019. Retrieved February 16, 2019.