Danny Mars
| Danny Mars | |||
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| Kansas City T-Bones – No. 2 | |||
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| Born: January 22, 1994 Sarasota, Florida | |||
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Danny J. Mars (born January 22, 1994) is an American professional baseball outfielder for the Kansas City T-Bones of the American Association of Independent Professional Baseball. Listed at 6 feet 0 inches (1.83 m) and 195 pounds (88 kg), he is a switch-hitter and throws right-handed.[1]
Career[edit]
The Red Sox selected Mars out of Chipola College in Marianna, Florida for their sixth-round pick of the 2014 MLB Draft. A speedy outfielder and line-drive hitter, Mars posted a strong season with the Chipola Indians, while collecting a slash line of .380/.460/.584 with four home runs, 35 runs batted in and 25 stolen bases in 48 games. He also showed advanced recognition skills as a disciplined hitter, based on his 1.45 walk-to-strikeout ratio (29-to-20) in 166 plate appearances.[2] He had committed to play at Florida State University, before being selected by the Red Sox.[1]
Mars made his professional debut with the Short Season A Lowell Spinners in June 2014, hitting .311, which was 4th in the New York–Penn League. This would be followed with a promotion to the Low A Greenville Drive, where he completed his first professional season. Mars was slated to open 2015 at Greenville after a stint in extended spring training, but would eventually make his way to the GCL Red Sox.[3] He then rejoined the Drive during the midseason, slashing a .258./315/.303 line with 19 steals in 50 games.[1]
In 2016, Mars was assigned to the High-A Salem Red Sox, where he slashed .293/.353/.401 and stole 31 bases in 108 games. Mars had a career-night on August 8, when he recorded the first six-hit game for Salem in 32 years. He went 6-for-7 and drove in a career-high five runs, including two doubles and two triples, as he fell a home run short of the cycle in the 13-inning, 12–11 victory against the visiting Lynchburg Hillcats.[4] Mars was injured after that and finished the season among the top-10 Red Sox prospects in several categories, ranking second in stolen bases behind Yoan Moncada (45), third in triples (10) to Aneury Tavárez (13) and Andrew Benintendi (12), seventh in hits (120), eighth in batting average and runs scored, and tenth in OBP. Mars was selected to join the Surprise Saguaros of the Arizona Fall League during the postseason.[5]
Mars spent 2017 with the Double-A Portland Sea Dogs where he compiled a .304 batting average with six home runs and 47 RBIs with a .754 OPS in 119 games.[6] Mars started the 2018 season with Double-A Portland. He was released by the Red Sox organization on March 29, 2019.
On June 8, 2019, Mars signed with the Kansas City T-Bones of the independent Atlantic League of Professional Baseball.
References[edit]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Sox-Prospects.com – Danny Mars page".
- ↑ "Chipola Athletics – Danny Mars page". chipolaathletics.com. Retrieved November 19, 2014.
- ↑ "System Restart 2015, Pt. 4: Outfielders". Retrieved November 19, 2016.
- ↑ Salem 13, Lynchburg 11. Game played on August 6, 2016 (N) at Salem Memorial Baseball Stadium. MiLB box score and story. Retrieved on September 1, 2016.
- ↑ 2016 Surprise Saguaros Roster. MiLB.com. Retrieved on August 31, 2016.
- ↑ "Danny Mars Stats, Highlights, Bio - MiLB.com Stats - The Official Site of Minor League Baseball". MiLB.com. Retrieved March 25, 2018.
External links[edit]
- Career statistics and player information from Baseball-Reference (Minors), or MiLB.com, or Sox-Prospects.com
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