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Jeffrey William Abbott (born August 17, 1972) is a retired professional baseball player who was an outfielder in the major leagues from -. He played for the Chicago White Sox and Florida Marlins Abbott attended Dunwoody High School, in Dunwoody, Georgia and later the University of Kentucky. He was originally drafted by the Chicago White Sox in the 32nd round of the 1993 (901st overall) amateur draft, but did not sign. A year later, the Chicago White Sox drafted him again, this time in the 4th round (117th overall) of the 1994 amateur draft. Abbott began his minor league career with the Hickory Crawdads of the South Atlantic League after a brief appearance in rookie ball with the GCL White Sox in the Gulf Coast League. In 63 games he batted .393 with 6 home runs and 48 RBI. He began the 1995 season with the High-A Prince William Cannons, a 70 game stint where he batted .348 with 4 home runs and 48 RBI, before advancing to the AA Birmingham Barons of the Southern League. In 55 games with the Barons he had 3 home runs and 28 RBI while batting .320. 1996 saw Abbott reach the AAA Nashville Sounds of the American Association where he would remain all season as the team's starting left fielder. In 113 games, Abbott batted .325 with 14 home runs and 60 RBI while stealing 12 bases. He returned to Nashville for the 1997 season where he again batted over .300, this time batting .327 to go with 11 home runs and 63 RBI while again swiping a dozen bases, and got the call to join the big league club in June. Abbott made his debut for the Chicago White Sox on June 10, 1997 against the New York Yankees’ Andy Pettitte, grounding into a double play. He collected his first two major league hits the next day off of the Yankees Kenny Rogers. His first big league home run came on September 15 in Milwaukee off the Brewers Cal Eldred. He would stick with the White Sox for the remainder of the season, playing ten errorless games in the outfield, and hitting .263 over 19 games with two RBI and one home run. Abbott stuck with the big club for the 1998 season as the team's 4th outfielder. He batted .279 with 12 home runs and 41 RBI in 89 games that season, but his defense declined, as he committed four errors for a rather poor .971 fielding average. Abbott began the 1999 campaign again with the White Sox, but following a sluggish first month (.158. 2 HR, 6 RBI) he was demoted to the Charlotte Knights of the International League where he found his stroke and batted .318 with 9 homers and 37 RBI in the 67 games he appeared. 2000 had Abbott back in Chicago for another season with the White Sox. While hitting for average once again (.274) his power numbers dropped (only 3 home runs) along with 29 RBI over 80 games, serving as an extra outfielder and occasional DH. He saw his only postseason action in Game 2 of the American League Division Series in which the White Sox were swept in 3 games by the Seattle Mariners. In December 2000, Abbott was traded to the Florida Marlins for outfielder Julio Ramirez. He opened the 2001 season in Florida’s farm system, playing briefly in both A and AA ball before batting .320 with 9 home runs and 24 RBI with the AAA Calgary Cannons of the Pacific Coast League, getting the call to the Marlins at the end of July. With Florida, he appeared in just 28 games in what would be his final major league season and batted .262 with 5 RBI primarily as a pinch hitter. Abbott was granted free agency following the 2001 season and signed a minor league deal with the Boston Red Sox. Playing for Pawtucket in the International League, he platooned in the outfield while hitting .283 with 10 home runs and 41 RBI in 100 games. The following season, Abbott's last in professional baseball, was spent with the AAA Tacoma Rainiers, the Seattle Mariners AAA team. He appeared in only four games, getting only two hits in fifteen at bats, before calling it a career.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/a/abbotje01.shtml )〕 ==References== 〔 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「Jeff Abbott (baseball)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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