John Bowker

Quick Facts

Full Name	John Bowker
Occupation	Baseball Player
Date Of Birth	Jul 8, 1983(1983-07-08)
Age	41
Birthplace	Sacramento
Country	United States
Birth City	California
Horoscope	Cancer

John Bowker Biography

John Bowker is one of the most popular and richest Baseball Player who was born on July 8, 1983 in Sacramento, California, United States. Bowker was the son of Brite Bowker and Chris Bowker on July 8 1983 at Sacramento, California. As a child Bowker was a student at Mariemont elementary school, Arden Middle School, and Rio Americano High School. His baseball career began by playing for an Arden Park Little League team led by his father and participated in baseball while during his time at Rio Americano, along with basketball and football. He chose to focus on baseball in his sophomore year. He was a letterman for three seasons in baseball, two years in football, and one season in basketball , in addition to being named all-league in all one of the sports. The Rio Americano’s single season records in batting, including batting average (.463) hit (41) and the number of home scores (8) as well as runs batted into (RBI) (41).

As of 2005, Bowker was a participant in Giants in their spring camp, but was removed to the juniors the following day on March 2. The season was played by Single-A’s advanced San Jose Giants. In 121 games, he scored 27 doubles, 124 hits 13 home runs along with 67 RBI while hitting .267. He hit .238 with an RBI, a double, and an RBI and 4 RBI during five playoff games when San Jose took home its California League championship.

Bowker attended spring training with the Giants in 2007 but only appeared in two spring training games. He spent the entire season with the Connecticut Defenders, the Giants’ double-A affiliate in the Eastern League. He set career highs with 139 games played, a .307 batting average, 160 hits, 22 home runs, 90 RBI, 35 doubles, and 6 triples. He ranked seventh in the league in batting average (among qualifiers), first in games, second in hits (to Jordan Brown), fifth in doubles (tied with David Smith), fifth in triples (tied with Clete Thomas and Michael Spidale), and third in RBI (behind Jeff Larish and Oscar Salazar). His 22 home runs were tied for fifth in the league (with Salazar and Luis Jiménez) and set a Connecticut franchise record.

Entering the 2008 season, Bowker was named the ninth best prospect in the Giants’ organization by Baseball America. He attended spring training again but was sent to Fresno on March 11. On April 11, Bowker was called up by the Giants, and he joined the team the next day after having only 3 hours of sleep the night before. In a 7–5 loss to the St. Louis Cardinals that day, he got his first hit (a single) and drove in three runs with his first home run, both against Todd Wellemeyer, as he became the eighth player in San Francisco Giants history to hit a home run in his debut. The next day, in the Giants’ 7–4 victory over the Cardinals, Bowker had four RBI and hit his second home run, against Joel Piñeiro, becoming the first player in San Francisco Giants history to hit a home run in each of his first two Major League games. He had seven RBI in his first two games, the most by any major leaguer in his first two games since Joe Cunningham had seven in 1954. Bowker replaced Rich Aurilia as the Giants’ starting first baseman on April 21. On June 7, he hit the first grand slam of his career, against Luis Ayala, in a 6–0 victory over the Washington Nationals. On July 2, Bowker hit a two-run “Splash Hit” home run into McCovey Cove against Ryan Dempster in a 6–5 loss to the Chicago Cubs. He was batting .274 before the All-Star break, but after batting .152 with two RBI in 21 games after the break, he was optioned to Fresno on August 13 to make room on the roster for Travis Ishikawa, who replaced him as the Giants’ first baseman. He was recalled by the Giants on September 2 after rosters expanded. Used mainly as a pinch-hitter in September, he batted .346 with 1 home run in 15 games to finish the season with a .255 batting average (10th among NL rookies), 83 hits (9th among NL rookies), 14 doubles, 3 triples (tied for 4th among NL rookies), 10 home runs (tied for 4th among NL rookies), and 43 RBI (6th among NL rookies) in 111 games. At Fresno, he batted .237 with 22 hits, 3 doubles, 1 triple, 2 home runs, and 9 RBI in 23 games.

Bowker was selected from Long Beach State University in the third round of the 2004 MLB draft by the San Francisco Giants. He spent the following seasons in the minor league program and was in the Eastern League leaders in several hitting categories in 2007. He was invited into Giants Giants soon after the start of the 2008 season and was the very first Giant to score an homer in the first two games in the major leagues. Bowker was the Giants first baseman of the team throughout the entire season, and ended the year with a batting average of .255 and hitting 10 homers over 112 games. As of 2009, Bowker took home his first Pacific Coast League Batting title with an .342 average. But, he only was batting .194 in the major league’s 31 games. He started the 2010 season as the Giants right fielder, but was fired shortly when the season got underway. He was a player optioned by Fresno in June, and then dealt for the Pittsburgh Pirates at the trade deadline. Bowker was summoned in by Pittsburgh Pirates in September. He completed the 2010 season hitting .219 with five home runs across 67 games. The 2011 season began as an outfielder in reserve on the Pirates team, but was assigned to assignment and then sent to the minors following April. He hit .306 having hit 15 homers and scored 76 RBI in 106 games for his International League team before getting transferred for his former team, the Philadelphia Phillies at the end of August. He was mostly used as a pinch-hitter, Bowker didn’t hit during 13 at-bats for Philadelphia. After the season ended the team released him to join Yomiuri Giants. Yomiuri Giants in Japan.

John Bowker Net Worth

John Bowker is one of the richest Baseball Player from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, John Bowker 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

John Brite Bowker (born July 8th 1983) is an American professional baseball outfielder and first-baseman with the Fukushima Hopes of the (Japanese) Baseball Challenge League. Bowker has been a part of Major League Baseball (MLB) for the San Francisco Giants, Pittsburgh Pirates and the Philadelphia Phillies and in Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) for the Yomiuri Giants and Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles. Bowker is 6 feet one inch (1.85 millimeters) in height and weighs the 205 lbs (93 kg) He plays and throws left-handed.

After finishing his studies at Rio Americano, Bowker enrolled at Long Beach State University. In 2004 he played his team of LBSU Dirtbags to the NCAA Super Regionals and was a part in the first team of All-Big West. After hitting .323 during his initial two seasons in Long Beach, he entered the 2004 Major League Baseball (MLB) Draft and was picked at the end of the round, of the San Francisco Giants.

Bowker attended spring training with the Giants in 2006, but he was sent to the minors on March 2. He spent most of the season with San Jose, where he batted .284 with 131 hits, 6 triples, 7 home runs, and 66 RBI in 112 games. His 32 doubles ranked tenth overall in the league. In 5 playoff games, he batted .182 with 4 hits, 2 doubles, and 1 triple. He also appeared in two games for the triple-A Fresno Grizzlies of the Pacific Coast League, where he had two hits in four at bats.

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On January 10, 2012, Bowker was released by the Phillies in order to pursue a career in Nippon Professional Baseball. Three days later, he signed a one-year deal with the Yomiuri Giants.

Facts & Trivia

John Ranked on the list of most popular Baseball Player. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. John Bowker celebrates birthday on July 8 of every year.

On June 11, 2015 Bowker was traded to the Pittsburgh Pirates organization for a PTBNL. He elected free agency on November 6.