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MLB Philadelphia Phillies #11 Jimmy Rollins Profile James Calvin “Jimmy” Jimmy Rollins (born November 27, 1978 in Oakland, California), nicknamed “J-Roll”, is an All-Star and former MVP shortstop for the Philadelphia Phillies of Major League Baseball’s National League. Professional career Minor leagues After being drafted by the Phillies in the second round of the 1996 draft,Jimmy Rollins was assigned to the rookie-league Martinsville Phillies. He led the team in walks, batting only .238, but stealing 20 bases. However, he still earned a promotion to low-A Piedmont for the 1997 season. He had a better year at only 18 years old, leading the team in games played, at-bats, runs, hits, triples, stolen bases, and walks all in the same year. He batted .270, stole 46 bases, and had 560 at-bats, more than 100 higher than second-place Dave Francia. 1998 brought Jimmy Rollins to a higher level of competition at high-A Clearwater. While playing alongside future Phillies teammates Pat Burrell, Johnny Estrada, Adam Eaton, and Brandon Duckworth, Jimmy Rollins batted .244 with 18 doubles and 23 stolen bases, though he was the youngest player on the team by two years. Eaton, Burrell, and Jimmy Rollins were all promoted to AA Reading together the next year, and Jimmy Rollins led the team in games and at-bats, as well as hits. His 145 hits gave him an average of .273, and led to a late-season promotion to Scranton/Wilkes-Barre, where he played four games. Leading Scranton in games played, doubles, and triples the next season, Jimmy Rollins helped lead the team to the playoffs, where they defeated the Buffalo Bisons in the first round, but lost to Indianapolis in the finals.For <a href="http://www.coolsportshoe.com/nike-sb-dunk-high-c-9.html"><strong>high nike dunk</strong></a> his performance, Jimmy Rollins was rewarded with a September call-up to the Phillies, where he batted .321 in 14 games, stealing three bases and batting in five runs. Major leagues 2001: Rookie year Coming into his rookie season of 2001, there was a lot of hype surrounding Jimmy Rollins and his speed. He did not disappoint, delivering a league-leading 46 stolen bases that season. Jimmy Rollins was also the Phillies’ only representative at the 2001 All-Star game. He finished third in National League Rookie of the Year voting, and was rated the 5th best rookie in the Major Leagues, third-best in the NL, by Baseball America. 2002 In 2002, Jimmy Rollins finished second among NL shortstops with a .980 fielding percentage, third in total chances (695), fourth in assists, (504) and fifth in putouts (226), while posting a .245 batting average. He led all NL shortstops in stolen bases and finished third in runs (82), fourth in hits (156) and walks (53) and fifth in doubles (33) and RBI (60). He was voted the starting shortstop for the NL All-Star team, and became the first shortstop in Major League history and first Phillie to make the All-Star team in his first two Major League seasons. He was named Best Defensive Shortstop in the NL and third-best NL Baserunner by Baseball America. He also participated in the MLB vs Japan All-Star Series in November in Japan. 2003 Jimmy Rollins raised his batting average nearly twenty points from the year before in 2003, while hitting 42 doubles and stealing 20 bases. He tied his career high in errors with 14, while making 204 putouts with 463 assists. In June, he had a nine-game hitting streak, his best of the season, and in September of that year, he stole his 100th career base against the Atlanta Braves. 2004 Accomplishments in Jimmy Rollins’ 2004 season included his third “quadruple-double” (four statistical categories—home runs, stolen bases, doubles, and triples—in double figures in a single season), making him one of three players to accomplish this feat during the season, along with Tampa Bay Devil Rays OF Carl Crawford and Detroit Tigers SS Carlos Guillén; his three ten-game hitting streaks throughout the summer and fall months; and his first career grand slam, hit in the final game of the season against Florida. He also hit .289 with 14 home runs, including 2 inside-the-park <a href="http://www.coolsportshoe.com"><strong>nike dunk shoes</strong></a> home runs and the first one of his career. 43 doubles, 12 triples, and 119 runs scored rounded off his fourth full season in the majors. 2005: Beat the streak The biggest highlight of Jimmy Rollins’ 2005 season came in August and September. Jimmy Rollins hit safely in 36 straight games up to and including the last game of the season. This broke a franchise record for longest hitting streak established in 1899 by Phillies legend Ed Delahanty. Jimmy Rollins hit .379 during the streak, bringing his average for the season to .290. He also hit 38 doubles, 11 triples and 12 home runs, along with stealing 41 bases, to complete his fourth career “quadruple-double.” He was also named to the National League All-Star Team. 2006 Though he extended his hitting streak to 38 games in the first two games of 2006, Jimmy Rollins struggled in the first half of the season (.259 AVG, .744 OPS, 9 HR, 40 K) while hitting leadoff, but went on a tear after the All-Star break (he was not invited to the All-Star Game) with a .319 AVG, .965 OPS, 18 HR, and 15 K’s. He set the Phillies’ franchise record for home runs in a season by a shortstop with 25, a record he would later break in 2007. Jimmy Rollins and Chase Utley (who hit 32 home runs) became the first pair of middle-infielders in National League history to hit at least 25 home runs each in the same season. 2007: “The team to beat” and MVP Jimmy Rollins and teammate Ryan Howard appeared on The Late Show with David Letterman early in the 2007 season, and he refused to back down from his prediction even as the Phillies began the season with a slow start. His first half numbers included a .286 batting average, with 53 RBIs and 16 home runs. On June 28, Jimmy Rollins had a four-hit game against the Cincinnati Reds, including a game-tying triple. The triple was Jimmy Rollins’ 10th, which gave him his fifth career “quadruple-double”. Two months later, Jimmy Rollins was named the National League Player of the Week for August 27 to September 2, 2007. He recorded seven consecutive multi-hit games from August 26 to August 31 as part of an 18-for-32 stretch, and homered in back-to-back games on August 28 and 29 during the Phillies’ four-game sweep of the Mets. On September 25 against the Atlanta Braves, Jimmy Rollins hit the home run <a href="http://www.coolsportshoe.com/nike-sb-dunk-high-c-9.html"><strong>Dunk High</strong></a> that completed his 30–30 season. On the last day of the 2007 season, Jimmy Rollins became the seventh player to collect at least 20 doubles, 20 triples, 20 home runs, in one season (and only the fourth player to also have 20 stolen bases in that same year) when he hit his 20th triple of the year in a 6-1 win over the Washington Nationals that clinched the National League East division championship for the Phillies. The club would advance to the playoffs for the first time since their 1993 World Series loss; however, they had to play the Colorado Rockies, who ended the Phillies season in a three-game sweep in the NLDS. 2008: Defending the division title Jimmy Rollins opened the year strongly, batting .308 through 12 games. However, on April 20, Jimmy Rollins was placed on the 15-day disabled list for the first time in his career after spraining his left ankle while trying to avoid being picked off during a game with the Mets two weeks earlier. Jimmy Rollins returned to the starting lineup May 9, 2008, against the San Francisco Giants. In the game, Jimmy Rollins went 3-for-5 with a 2-run home run and an RBI double in the 7–4 Phillies win. He went on to finish the month of May hitting .298 with 12 RBI and six steals. Though June was a weaker month for Jimmy Rollins’ hitting, he still hit three home runs, knocked in ten runs, and hit two triples.His offense became a spark in the Phillies’ lineup in July as well, as he hit three triples before the All-Star break alone. The Phillies proved Jimmy Rollins’ 100-win prediction correct, winning 92 games in the regular season and 11 in the playoffs as they capped the 2008 year off with a National League East Division title as well as a World Series Championship. Jimmy Rollins was honored with a Fielding Bible Award for defensive excellence as the top MLB shortstop during the year. 2009 In 2009, Jimmy Rollins started the season unlike his previous season, and at one point was hitting so poorly that he was benched four games in June by manager Charlie Manuel in an effort to turn around his season. Towards the end of June Jimmy Rollins was batting just .195 with a .237 on-base percentage when hitting leadoff, and through July 1 he had the lowest on base percentage (.250) in the major leagues. However, by late September, Jimmy Rollins had raised his batting average to .250, hitting 21 home runs, 43 doubles, scoring 100 runs, and stealing 31 <a href="http://www.casualphorum.com/viewtopic.php?p=1890123#1890123"><strong>Polo Shirts Casual Sophistication | Abercrombie and Fitch Mens ...</strong></a> bases. In game 4 of the 2009 NLCS, Jimmy Rollins hit the game-winning 2-run double against the Dodgers with one out left to win the game 5–4. However, Jimmy Rollins’ overall poor postseason performance continued, batting only .234 with an OBP of .306 and only 3 extra base hits in 64 at-bats. In the World Series, while his OBP went up to .345 his average dropped to .217. 2010 Jimmy Rollins strained his right calf just before the start of the game on April 12, 2010, and was scratched from the lineup. The Phillies still won the game 6-1. Jimmy Rollins had an MRI on April 13, showing a strained calf. On April 14, Jimmy Rollins was placed on the 15-day disabled list for the second time in his career. On June 23, Jimmy Rollins hit his first-ever walk-off home run, doing so against Kerry Wood of the Cleveland Indians. The two-run blast gave Philadelphia a 7-6 victory. It was Jimmy Rollins’ second game back from the DL. Related posts:MLB Philadelphia Phillies #6 Ryan Howard MLB Philadelphia Phillies #8 Shane Victorino MLB Philadelphia Phillies #10 Ben Francisco Being cautious Philadelphia Phillies gives a day off for Utley MLB Florida Marlins #20 Logan Morrison