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Brian Keith Cole (September 28, 1978 – March 31, 2001) was a professional baseball outfielder. Cole played in Minor League Baseball for the New York Mets organization from 1998 to 2000, becoming one of the top prospects in baseball. He died in a car accident at the age of 22 in 2001. ==Career== Cole was born in Meridian, Mississippi and attended Meridian High School.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Brian Cole: He was the one who was going to make it' )〕 He played both baseball and American football, scoring a school record 22 touchdowns as a senior.〔 He received numerous offers to play college football from Division 1 schools, but decided to stick with baseball.〔 Cole was drafted by the Detroit Tigers in the 36th round of the 1997 Major League Baseball Draft, but declined the Tigers $5,000 offer attended Navarro College.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Best Player You Never Saw )〕 In his lone season at Navarro he hit .524 with 27 home runs, 82 runs batted in (RBI), 95 runs scored and 49 stolen bases in 60 games.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Sarasota High grad spurs SI story )〕 For his play, he was named ''Baseball America's'' Junior College Player of the Year. Cole was then drafted by the New York Mets in the 18th round of the 1998 Major League Baseball Draft and chose to sign.〔 He made his professional debut that season for the Kingsport Mets.〔 After 56 games with Kingsport, he was promoted to the Pittsfield Mets, where he played in two games. Overall, he hit .298/.315/.487 with five home runs, 36 RBI and 16 stolen bases. Cole played the 1999 season with the Capital City Bombers. In 125 games, he hit .316/.362/.522 with 18 home runs, 71 RBI and 50 stolen bases.〔 Prior to the 2000 season, Baseball America ranked him as the Mets fourth best prospect.〔 He started the season with the St. Lucie Mets. After hitting .312/.356/.528 with 15 home runs and 54 stolen bases in 91 games, he was promoted to the Double-A Binghamton Mets.〔 He struggled early on, hitting only .136 in his first 59 bats, but rebounded to hit .350 over his next 117 at-bats.〔 Overall, he hit .301/.347/.494 with 19 home runs, 86 RBI and 69 stolen bases. For his play, he was named the Mets Minor League Player of the Year and was honored in a pregame ceremony at Shea Stadium.〔 After the season, he played for the Scottsdale Scorpions in the Arizona Fall League where he was a teammate with future MLB All-Stars Albert Pujols, Heath Bell and Ty Wigginton.〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Appraising Arizona: AFL's all-time best )〕 Prior to the 2001 season, Cole was ranked by Baseball America as the Mets third best prospect and the 64th best in all of baseball.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=New York Mets Top 10 Prospects )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Baseball America's top propects, 10 years later )〕 He was invited to spring training for the first time that season, where he impressed coaches, including Mookie Wilson.〔(BASEBALL; Subdued Mets Share in Loss Of Player With Major Future )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Brian Cole (baseball)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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