Andre Ethier

Andre Ethier, born April 10, 1982, in Phoenix, Arizona, is a former American professional baseball outfielder who spent his entire 12-season Major League Baseball career with the Los Angeles Dodgers from 2006 to 2017.

Of Navajo and Yaqui heritage through his mother, he attended McClintock High School in Tempe, where he excelled in baseball, basketball, and football before playing college ball at Arizona State University in the fall of 2000 and transferring to Chandler-Gilbert Community College, where he hit .468 with 94 hits and 32 doubles, earning team MVP honors.

Drafted by the Oakland Athletics in the second round (62nd overall) of the 2003 MLB Draft, he progressed through the minors, batting .313 with Modesto in 2004 and .319 with 18 home runs for Double-A Midland RockHounds in 2005, earning Texas League MVP and Oakland's Minor League Player of the Year awards before being traded to the Dodgers in December 2005 for pitcher Giovanni Carrara.

Full Name	Andre Ethier
Other Name	Andre Everett Ethier
Gender	Male
Occupation	Player
Date of Birth	10-April-1982 (44 years)
Birth Year	1982
Birth Location	Phoenix, Arizona, United States

Andre Ethier debuted with the Dodgers on May 2, 2006, and quickly established himself as a reliable hitter, posting a .288 average with 11 home runs and 49 RBIs in 76 games that year, followed by a .322 average, 31 doubles, 14 home runs, and 66 RBIs in 2007. In 2009, he led the National League with 48 doubles, earned a Silver Slugger Award, and hit .272 with 31 home runs and 106 RBIs, helping the Dodgers reach the National League Championship Series.

Selected as an All-Star in 2010 and 2011, he won a Gold Glove in 2011 for right field - one of three Dodgers recipients that year and signed a five-year, $85 million extension in June 2012, during which he notched his 1,000th career hit and set a Dodgers record with 10 consecutive hits.

Over his career, Andre Ethier appeared in 1,455 games, batting .285 with 1,367 hits, 303 doubles, 162 home runs, 687 RBIs, a .359 on-base percentage, and a .463 slugging percentage, while maintaining a .986 fielding percentage across all outfield positions.

He contributed to six postseason appearances, batting .246 in 51 playoff games with five home runs, including a walk-off homer in the 2017 National League Division Series against the Arizona Diamondbacks. Injuries limited his play in later years, appearing in only 31 games in 2016 and 14 in 2017 before retiring at age 35, later serving as a special assistant to Dodgers player development and coaching youth baseball.

Married to Maggie Ethier since 2006, with whom he has three children, he was inducted into the New England Collegiate Baseball League Hall of Fame in 2010 for his summer play with the Keene Swamp Bats.