Braden Bishop

Braden Adam Bishop (born August 22, 1993) is an American professional baseball outfielder for the Seattle Mariners of Major League Baseball (MLB). He was drafted by the Mariners in the 3rd round of the 2015 Major League Baseball draft.

Braden Bishop
Bishop with Seattle Mariners in 2019
Seattle Mariners – No. 5
Outfielder
Born: (1993-08-22) August 22, 1993
Woodland, California
Bats: Right Throws: Right
MLB debut
March 21, 2019, for the Seattle Mariners
MLB statistics
(through 2020 season)
Batting average.128
Home runs0
Runs batted in8
Teams

Early and personal life

Bishop was born in Woodland, California.[1] His hometown is San Carlos, California.[2] His parents are Randy (who owns a private investigation company) and Suzy Bishop (who ran track at UCLA and has been a movie producer and head of the Vancouver Film School in Canada), and he has a younger brother, Hunter (who is an outfielder for the San Francisco Giants organization).[3][4][5][6] Spurred by his mother Suzy's struggle with early onset Alzheimer’s disease starting at age 54, he has started a charity to spread awareness of the affliction known as “4Mom.”[7][8][9][10] His mother died at age 59 in October 2019.[11] The brothers are creating the "Suzy Bishop Memorial Grant" in their mother's honor, which will be gifted once a year to a family affected by Alzheimer’s.[11]

Bishop attended St. Francis High School in Mountain View, California.[1][12] He then attended the University of Washington in Seattle, Washington, where he played baseball for the Washington Huskies.[1][7] In 2014, he batted .304/.394/.359 with 21 steals (leading the Pac-12 Conference) in 24 attempts.[13] After the 2014 season, he played collegiate summer baseball with the Brewster Whitecaps of the Cape Cod Baseball League.[14] In his senior year in college he was All-Pac-12, and selected to the All-Pac-12 Defensive Team.[7]

Professional career

Minor leagues

Bishop was drafted by the Atlanta Braves in the 36th round of the 2012 Major League Baseball draft out of high school, and by the Seattle Mariners in the 3rd round of the 2015 Major League Baseball draft out of college.[1]

He played in 2015 for the Everett AquaSox of the Class A- Northwest League, batting .320 (second in the league)/.367/.393 with 13 steals in 16 attempts, and led the league with 12 HBP and 11 sacrifice hits.[1][15] In August 2015 MLBPipeline.com ranked Bishop as the Mariners' #14 prospect.[7] He was named Northwest League Player of the Week on August 24, 2015, a Northwest League Post-Season All Star, and an MILB.com organization All Star.[16]

In 2016, Bishop played for the Clinton LumberKings of the Class A Midwest League, and the Bakersfield Blaze of the Class A+ California League, batted a combined .273/.338/.326 with 8 steals in 9 attempts, and was named a California League All Star.[1][16][17] MLBpipeline.com ranked him the #9 Mariners prospect.[18]

In February 2017 MLB.com ranked him the #6 Mariners prospect, the best defensive player in the organization, and tied for the best runner in the organization.[19] Bishop began 2017 with the Modesto Nuts of the California League, batted .296/.385/.400 with 16 steals in 20 attempts and was the MVP in the mid-season California League All Star Game, and was promoted to the Arkansas Travelers of the Class AA Texas League.[1][16][20] In July 2017 Baseball America ranked him the #7 2017 mid-season prospect of the Mariners.[21] With Arkansas, he batted .336/.417/.448. In 2017 MLBpipeline.com ranked him the #5 Mariners prospect.[22] The Seattle Times named Bishop the Mariners' 2017 Player of the Year, and he was named the Jewish Baseball News Minor League MVP.[23][24] He played for the Peoria Javelinas in the Arizona Fall League in the fall of 2017, and was an AFL All Star.[25]

In 2018 MLBpipeline.com ranked him the #5 Mariners prospect.[26] Playing for the Arkansas Travelers of the Class AA Texas League, he batted .284/.361/.412 with 70 runs (tied for 10th in the league), 8 home runs, and 33 RBIs in 345 at bats.[27]

Seattle Mariners

After the 2018 season, the Mariners added Bishop to their 40-man roster.[28] On March 19, 2019, the Mariners announced that Bishop was included on their Opening Day active roster.[29] Bishop made his MLB debut on March 21 as a defensive replacement in the 8th inning, replacing Ichiro Suzuki in right field during Ichiro's final game. Bishop struck out in his first big league at bat.[30] On March 23, he was optioned to the AAA Tacoma Rainiers.

References
  1. "Braden Bishop Minor Leagues Statistics & History," Baseball-Reference.com.
  2. "Braden Bishop - Player Profile," Perfect Game USA.
  3. "UW baseball player Braden Bishop leads his mother’s fight against early-onset Alzheimer’s," Seattle Times.
  4. "Sunday's Washington-Arizona baseball game was all 4MOM," ESPN.
  5. "Bishop Plays ‘4MOM’ With Alzheimer’s," Baseball America.
  6. "Leading Off 4Mom," milb.com.
  7. "You Should Root For Mariners Prospect Braden Bishop," Baseball Essential.
  8. "Braden Bishop gets to stay in Seattle, drafted by Mariners," USA Today.
  9. Lewis, Adam; Pac-12.comJun 10, special to; 2015. "Seattle Mariners see 'good makeup' in Washington's Braden Bishop". Pac-12. Retrieved December 14, 2018.CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  10. "Home," 4MOM.
  11. Johnson, Dalton (2019-10-09). "Bruce Bochy sends Hunter Bishop heartfelt tweet after mother's death | NBCS Bay Area". Nbcsports.com. Retrieved 2019-10-22.
  12. "The Continuous Education of Braden Bishop," Lookout Landing.
  13. "Braden Bishop - The Baseball Cube". www.thebaseballcube.com. Retrieved December 14, 2018.
  14. "#4 Bradon Bishop - Profile". pointstreak.com. Retrieved January 9, 2020.
  15. "Top 2015 System Debuts for the Mariners," Scout.
  16. "Braden Bishop Stats, Highlights, Bio," MiLB.com.
  17. "Seattle Mariners' Braden Bishop makes career-changing swing adjustment," Archived 2019-03-21 at the Wayback Machine BaseballCensus.
  19. "2017 Prospect Watch," mlb.com.
  20. "Braden Bishop Steals The Show In California League All-Star Game," Baseball America.
  21. "2017 Seattle Mariners Midseason Top 10 Prospects," Baseball America.
  22. "MLB.com 2017 Prospect Watch". Major League Baseball. Retrieved December 14, 2018.
  23. "Mariners minor league report: Naming the player and pitcher of the year". The Seattle Times. August 26, 2017. Retrieved December 14, 2018.
  24. Steve Wulf (November 9, 2017). "What a week for Bregman, Pederson, Kapler and Koufax," ESPN.
  25. Preusser, Kate (November 5, 2017). "Mariners prospects make impression in absence in Fall Stars game". Lookout Landing. Retrieved December 14, 2018.
  26. "MLB.com 2018 Prospect Watch". Major League Baseball. Retrieved December 14, 2018.
  28. "Mariners add Braden Bishop to 40-man roster". MLB.com. Retrieved December 14, 2018.
  29. Johns, Greg (March 19, 2019). "Mariners set 25-man Opening Day roster". MLB.com. MLB. Retrieved March 20, 2019.
  30. "Mariners Box Score 3/21/2019". mlb.com. March 21, 2019. Retrieved March 21, 2019.
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