Kevin Jordan (baseball)

Kevin Jordan
Brisbane Bandits
Infielder / Manager
Born: (1969-10-09) October 9, 1969
San Francisco, California
Batted: Right Threw: Right
debut
August 8, 1995, for the Philadelphia Phillies
Last appearance
October 7, 2001, for the Philadelphia Phillies
Career statistics
Batting average .258
Home runs 23
Runs batted in 175
Teams
As player
As manager

Kevin Wayne Jordan (October 9, 1969 in San Francisco, California), is a retired American Australian Major League Baseball infielder who played for the Philadelphia Phillies from 1995 to 2001. He also played a substantial part of his career with the Brisbane Bandits in the Australian Baseball League from 1993 through to 1997.[1]

While Jordan was playing in Brisbane, he met and married his Australian wife and obtained Australian citizenship, technically meaning he was the seventh "Australian" to play in the Major Leagues. He is excluded from the list of 27 Australian MLB players, however, as it is officially only Australian players to debut in the MLB, whereas Jordan was American only at the time of his debut.[2]

Jordan is currently the manager of the Brisbane Bandits in the Australian Baseball League.

In January 2018, it was announced that Jordan would be serving as a part-time color analyst for Phillies radio broadcasts during the 2018 season.[3]

References

  1. ↑ Flintoff and Dunn Alamanac
  2. ↑ Australians Playing in the Major League. Flintoff and Dunn
  3. ↑ Gross, Stephen (January 8, 2018). "Three former Phillies to join Scott Franzke in radio booth in 2018". The Morning Call.



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