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Grant Green to Debut with Stockton Ports

September 2, 2009 - California League (CalL1)
Stockton Ports News Release


STOCKTON, Calif. - The Stockton Ports are pleased to announce that shortstop Grant Green, the Oakland A's First Round (13th overall) selection in the 2009 First-Year Player Draft, will be making his professional debut in tonight's 7:05 p.m. game against the Bakersfield Blaze.

Green, a standout athlete at the University of Southern California, agreed to terms with the Oakland A's on August 17.

Green, a 21-year-old from Anaheim Hills, Calif., hit a team-leading .374 with 19 doubles, five triples, four home runs and 32 RBI in 54 games for USC in 2009. He was third in the Pac-10 in batting and earned All-Pac 10 honors for the second straight season. He was the eighth Trojan to be picked in the first round of the Major League First-Year Player Draft.

Green earned NCBWA Preseason All-America second team honors hitting .348 with six home runs and 21 RBI for the Chatham A's of the Cape Cod League in the summer, and was named the Robert A. McNeece Outstanding Pro Prospect. He was also named the Cape Cod Baseball League All-Star MVP. He finished his collegiate career at USC with a .359 batting average, 20 home runs and 102 RBI. He also set a school record with 20 career triples.

Green will be the second A's First Round Draft pick to play for the Ports this season. The A's 2008 First Round selection, Jemile Weeks, played in 50 games with the Ports this season, recording a 22-game hitting streak. The streak, the second-longest in the California League this season, spanned from Weeks' Ports debut on May 27 to June 28.

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