Shawn Wooten

Quick Facts

Full Name	Shawn Wooten
Occupation	Baseball Player
Date Of Birth	Jul 24, 1972(1972-07-24)
Age	52
Birthplace	Glendora
Country	United States
Birth City	California
Horoscope	Cancer

Shawn Wooten Biography

Shawn Wooten is one of the most popular and richest Baseball Player who was born on July 24, 1972 in Glendora, California, United States. William Shawn Wooten (born July 24 1972) is the major league hitting assistant manager with the Los Angeles Angels. He was a professional player in the field of baseball. He played the entirety or a portion of five seasons with Major League Baseball with the Anaheim Angels (2000-03), Philadelphia Phillies (2004), and Boston Red Sox (2005). He is a right-handed hitter and thrower.

In the postseason of 2002, Wooten was used as the team’s DH against left- handed pitching. He also played alongside Brad Fullmer. The 2002 American League Division Series against the New York Yankees, Wooten played in one of four matches as DH and also pinch-hit in a third. He hit six times in nine at- bats. He also hit a game-winning homer from David Wells in the fifth game 4 inning that the Angels were able to take to win the series. Then, in the ALCS against the Minnesota Twins, Wooten started one game and was a part of two more, going 2-for-8 along with an RBI. When he played in the World Series against the San Francisco Giants which didn’t start any left-handed pitchers He played in three games and went 1-for-2. In total He scored .474 (9-for-19) and had one hit as well as 3 RBI as well as five hits scored over nine postseason games, which is third highest among all hitters during the playoffs.

A utility player who played first base, catcher, and third base, Wooten compiled a .272 batting average with 18 home runs and 86 RBI in 266 games played in his major league career. A member of the Angels’ 2002 World Series championship team, he was a late bloomer, not making the majors until age 28. After that, while he played well in limited playing time, his career was derailed by a pair of injuries.

Wooten became a free agent after the 2003 season, and signed with the Philadelphia Phillies before the 2004 season. He was used mostly as a pinch hitter and backup to starting first baseman Jim Thome. However, he batted just .184 and was sent to the minor leagues in July, returning when the rosters expanded in September. He became a free agent again after the season.

The year 2001 was the first time Wooten was playing his very first season of the Major Leagues for Anaheim (qualifying as rookie) after being named to the roster of 25 players from spring training. He began the season with a batting average of .385 (10-for-26) and had the home run of three and there were six batted into in April. He was the top of the entire group of American League rookies in home runs throughout the month of April. The first home run he hit was by Mark Mulder of the Oakland Athletics on April 16. He hit his homer in the month of June. was leading Angels in hitters’ scoring with an .386 per- game average (17-for-44) as well as hitting .328 (42-for-128) during his All- Star break, which was second only Seattle’s Ichiro Suzuki in the group of AL newcomers (based on 125 bats). Wooten struck safely in 47 games, including 17 games with multiple hits.

Shawn Wooten Net Worth

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

Wooten was initially drafted and was signed with The Detroit Tigers in 1993 as third baseman. He played for just two years within the Tigers team and was let go in mid-season of 1995 after batting .129 in his 20 games at Double-A Jacksonville. He was signed by the mutually-owned Moose Jaw Diamond Dogs of the Prairie League, where he struck .373 in the second quarter of 1995. Following his time with Moose Jaw again in 1996 and 1997, he was signed with Anaheim Angels. Anaheim Angels for the 1997 season.

The Angels assigned Wooten to the Class-A Cedar Rapids Kernels, where Wooten began to master the catcher’s role. In 1998, as part of the Lake Elsinore Storm, he was the team’s first baseman. Over the next two seasons, Wooten was able to continue playing at all three positions. The year 2000 saw him hit .353 when playing for Triple-A Edmonton Trappers, earning a later-season promotion to major leagues. He made his debut in the major leagues on the 19th of August as the catcher in the lineup in the game against New York Yankees and was unhit in his four at-bats. The first hit was one in left field, which he hit with Kelvim Escobar from the Toronto Blue Jays on August 30. He played in seven games, scoring five hits in his nine bats.

After starting the 2002 season in the minor leagues on a rehab assignment, Wooten came off the disabled list in July 2002. He played in 49 of the team’s last 76 games, batting .338 (26-for-77) from August through September, including three doubles in a game to tie a team record. Overall, he finished with a .292 average in 49 games, mostly as a DH or first baseman.

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Wooten was employed by the Los Angeles Angels as a minor league hitting director in 2017. In the offseason, Wooten operates a baseball academy for young kids to high schoolers (and sometimes working with college players) in Plymouth, Minnesota. Following his minor league job, Wooten was promoted to the position of Assistant Major League Hitting Coach for the Los Angeles Angels prior to the 2019 season.

Facts & Trivia

Shawn Ranked on the list of most popular Baseball Player. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Shawn Wooten celebrates birthday on July 24 of every year.