Courtney Hawkins (baseball)
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Courtney Hawkins Batting for Winston-Salem Dash in Wilmington DE April 28 2013
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Born: Corpus Christi, Texas |
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Courtney James Hawkins (born November 12, 1993) is an American professional baseball outfielder in the Chicago White Sox organization. He currently plays for the Double-A Birmingham Barons.
Career
Hawkins attended Mary Carroll High School in Corpus Christi, Texas. As a senior he was the Texas Gatorade High School Baseball Player of the Year.[1] He was the fifth ranked high school recruit in his class by ESPN and was committed to University of Texas at Austin.[2]
Hawkins was drafted by the Chicago White Sox with the 13th overall pick of the first round in the 2012 Major League Baseball Draft.[3][4][5] Hawkins started his career with the rookie-level Bristol White Sox of the Appalachian League. In 38 games he hit .272/.314/.401 with three home runs and 16 runs batted in. On August 12, 2012, he was promoted to the Low-A Kannapolis Intimidators of the South Atlantic League.[6] He hit .308/.352/.631 with four home runs and 15 runs batted in 16 games. He ended the season with the High-A Winston-Salem Dash after he was promoted on August 29, 2012.[7][8] Overall he finished his first season hitting .284/.324/.480 with eight home runs and 33 runs batted in 59 games. Hawkins was ranked the White Sox #1 prospect at the start of the 2013 season.[9] He was also ranked as the #55 ranked prospect in baseball according to Baseball America and #68 by MLB.com. Hawkins spent the whole 2013 season with Class A-Advanced Winston-Salem Dash. He struggled in his first full season, batting .178 with 19 home runs and 160 strikeouts in 383 at-bats.[10] He returned to Winston-Salem in 2014.[11]
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External links
- Career statistics and player information from Fangraphs, or Baseball Reference (Minors)
- Pages with broken file links
- Articles which use infobox templates with no data rows
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- 1993 births
- Living people
- Bristol White Sox players
- Kannapolis Intimidators players
- Winston-Salem Dash players
- Birmingham Barons players
- Minor league baseball players
- People from Corpus Christi, Texas
- Baseball players from Texas