Baseball America named him their MLB Rookie of the Year. Īfter making his MLB debut for Atlanta in 2010, Heyward was named to the National League (NL) All-Star team and finished second in the NL Rookie of the Year Award. A consensus number-one MLB prospect entering the 2010 season, Baseball America, Keith Law of, and Jonathan Mayo of MLB.com all listed Heyward as baseball's top prospect. 323 with 17 home runs (HR), 63 runs batted in (RBI), a. In 2009, he won a Minor League Player of the Year Award from both Baseball America and USA Today. 22 throughout his major league career in honor of a high school friend and teammate who died in a traffic collision.Ī three-time minor league All-Star game selection, Baseball America selected Heyward as the Braves' top overall prospect in 2007 and the organization's best power hitter it cited Heyward as having the best strike zone discipline and excelling at multiple other skills. Standing 6 feet 5 inches (1.96 m) tall and weighing 245 pounds (111 kg), he throws and bats left-handed.
There, he played until being traded to the St. Heyward soon became one of the top-rated prospects in all of baseball for batting, speed, and defense, and debuted in MLB as Atlanta's starting right fielder on Opening Day 2010. Originally the Atlanta Braves' first-round selection in the 2007 MLB draft from Henry County High School in Georgia, he began his minor league career at age 17. Jason Alias Heyward (born August 9, 1989), nicknamed " J-Hey" is an American professional baseball right fielder for the Chicago Cubs of Major League Baseball (MLB).
Wilson Defensive Player of the Year Award (2014).
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