Michael Garciaparra
baseball player
Michael Garciaparra (born April 2, 1983 in Whittier, California) is an American former professional baseball middle infielder. He is the brother of former All-Star Nomar Garciaparra.
Playing career
Garciaparra graduated from Don Bosco Technical Institute in June 2001. While there, he was named First Team All-Camino Real League in baseball for three years, handled kicking duties for the school's football team, and played varsity soccer. He missed most of the 2001 high school baseball season while recovering from surgery to repair a torn ACL sustained in a football game.
Garciaparra was drafted by the Seattle Mariners as a shortstop in the supplemental first round (36th overall) of the 2001 Major League Baseball draft with the pick awarded to the Mariners after the free agent departure of Alex Rodriguez. He signed with the Mariners with a $2 million signing bonus, forgoing a baseball and football scholarship offer from the University of Tennessee.
Garciaparra was highly touted as a prospect, and in 2001 Upper Deck put his image on the packaging for one of its brands, Prospect Premieres. He played in Seattle's minor league system in five seasons, topping out with the Triple-A Tacoma Rainiers in 2006, where he hit .316 with one home run in 42 games. He primarily played second base in 2005 and 2006, as the Mariners gave the starting shortstop job to Yuniesky Betancourt.
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