UPDATE | Redmond’s Conforto notches RBI in pro baseball debut with Mets
Published 2:38 pm Friday, July 24, 2015
Redmond native Michael Conforto has been called up by the New York Mets from Double-A Binghamton — the franchise’s minor league team — to replace veteran Michael Cuddyer, who has been placed on the disabled list.
In his Major League Baseball debut Friday night, left fielder Conforto notched an RBI when he drove in Lucas Duda on a groundout in the bottom of the fifth inning in the Mets’ 7-2 loss. Conforto went 0-for-3.
According to the Mets’ website, Conforto, a Redmond High School graduate, was hitting .312 with five home runs in 45 games for Binghamton, his only experience above Class A ball. The 22-year-old is a “.308 hitter with 15 home runs in 133 career Minor League games, exclusively as a left fielder. He went 2-for-2 and had an assist in the Futures Game in Cincinnati,” the website states.
Conforto, who was the Redmond Reporter’s male athlete of the year in 2011 and went on to attend Oregon State University, was a first-round, 10th overall selection ($2.97 million) by the Mets in the Major League Baseball draft in June 2014.
