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American baseball player (born 1974)
Baseball player
Clifford "Trey" Beamon
(born February 11, 1974) is an American former
professional baseball
player. He spent three seasons in
Major League Baseball
(MLB) as a
left fielder
and
right fielder
. Beamon bats from the left side, throws with his right hand, and was at one time listed as 6 ft 3 in (1.91 m) tall and weighing 210 pounds.
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After a prep career at
W. T. White High School
in Dallas, the Pirates chose Beamon in the second round of the
1992 MLB draft
, with the 61st overall selection. Beamon advanced quickly through the minors, and after he
batted
.334 in 1995 as a 21-year-old with the
Calgary Cannons
of the AAA
Pacific Coast League
,
Baseball America
honored him as the organization's top prospect.
Beamon struggled to establish himself on the MLB, however. He appeared in 24 games with the Pirates in 1996 before being traded, with
Angelo Encarnacion
to the
San Diego Padres
, in exchange for
Mark Smith
and Hal Garrett. He appeared in 43 games with the Padres the next year before being traded again; the Padres sent Beamon and
Tim Worrell
to the
Detroit Tigers
, receiving
Dan Miceli
,
Donne Wall
, and Ryan Balfe in return. Beamon appeared in 28 games with the Tigers in 1998, his final season in the major leagues. For his career, he compiled a .253 batting average, a .306
on-base percentage
, and a .310
slugging percentage
in 158
at bats
.
Beamon continued his professional career in the minor leagues and in
independent leagues
. He was a
Northern League
all-star
with the
Allentown Ambassadors
in 2000, leading that league in batting average (.381) and total hits (115). He was also a
United League Baseball
All-Star in 2006,
[1]
his final season, as a member of the
Alexandria Aces
.
In the off-season, Beamon resides in
Mesquite, Texas
.
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