Patrick Bailey (baseball)

Patrick Bailey (born May 29, 1999) is an American professional baseball catcher in the San Francisco Giants organization. He played college baseball at North Carolina State University. Bailey was selected 13th overall by the Giants in the first round of the 2020 Major League Baseball draft.

This article is about the Major League player born in 1999. For the college player and coach born in 1956, see Pat Bailey.

Patrick Bailey
Bailey with the United States collegiate national baseball team in 2019
San Francisco Giants
Catcher
Born: (1999-05-29) May 29, 1999
Greensboro, North Carolina
Bats: Switch
Throws: Right

Amateur career

Bailey attended Wesleyan Christian Academy in High Point, North Carolina, where he played baseball.[1] In 2016, he was selected for the U-18 United States national baseball team.[2] In 2017, his senior year, he batted .510 with five home runs and 33 RBIs.[3] He was drafted by the Minnesota Twins in the 37th round of the 2017 Major League Baseball draft, but did not sign and instead chose to fulfill his commitment to play college baseball at North Carolina State University.[4]

In 2018, Bailey's freshman year at NC State, he slashed .321/.419/.604(fourth in the ACC) with 13 home runs (a NC State freshman record) and forty RBIs, earning ACC Freshman of the Year honors alongside being named a Freshman-All American and to the All-ACC Second Team.[5][6] After the 2018 season, he played collegiate summer baseball with the Yarmouth–Dennis Red Sox of the Cape Cod Baseball League.[7] He was also selected for the United States collegiate national team.[2] As a sophomore in 2019, Bailey batted .288/.390/.513 with three triples (eighth in the ACC) and ten home runs alongside a .989 fielding percentage.[8] That summer, he played for the United States collegiate national team again.[9][10][2] As a junior in 2020, he hit .296/.466/.685 in 54 at bats with six home runs (fourth in the ACC), twenty RBIs (second) and 17 walks (third) over 17 games before the college baseball season was cut short due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Professional career

Bailey was selected by the San Francisco Giants in the first round with the 13th overall selection of the 2020 Major League Baseball draft.[11] He signed with the Giants for a signing bonus of $3.8 million.[12] He did not play a minor league game in 2020 due to the cancellation of the minor league season.[13]

Bailey made his professional debut in 2021 with the Eugene Emeralds of the High-A West.[14] After slashing .185/.290/.296 with two home runs and 15 RBIs over 33 games, he was demoted to the Rookie-level Arizona League Giants on June 26, but was reassigned to the San Jose Giants of the Low-A West after two games.[15] Over 47 games with San Jose to finish the season, Bailey slashed .322/.416(seventh in the league)/.531 with seven home runs, 24 RBIs, and 16 doubles, and caught 48% of attempted base-stealers.[16] He was selected to play in the Arizona Fall League for the Scottsdale Scorpions after the season where he batted .292/.375/.417 in 48 at bats, and was named to the Fall Stars Game.[17][18]

Bailey returned to Eugene for the 2022 season.[19] Over 83 games, he hit .225/.342/.420 in 267 at bats with 12 home runs, 51 RBIs, and 49 walks (eighth in the league), while leading the league with seven sacrifice flies and on defense catching 30% of attempted base-stealers.[20] He was named the 2022 MiLB Gold Glove as the best defensive catcher in the minor leagues.[21] To open the 2023 season, he was assigned to the Richmond Flying Squirrels of the Double-A Eastern League.[22]

References
  1. Joe Sirera. "Wesleyan catcher Patrick Bailey is among nation's best". Greensboro News and Record.
  2. "Forty-One USA Baseball Alumni Selected in the 2020 MLB Draft". USA Baseball. June 12, 2020. Retrieved June 26, 2020.
  3. Joe Sirera. "HSXtra All-Area: baseball". Greensboro News and Record.
  4. "Patrick Bailey Projected as Top 10 Pick in 2020 MLB Mock Draft". PackPride.com.
  5. "NC State's Patrick Bailey breaks freshman home run record". PackPride.com.
  6. "Patrick Bailey to build on historic freshman campaign". Technician.
  7. "Patrick Bailey". pointstreak.com. Retrieved June 11, 2020.
  8. Sutton, Bob. "ACC baseball preview: High hopes for in-state teams". The Times-News.
  9. Speight, Camden. "Patrick Bailey closes out USA Baseball summer in Japan". Technician.
  10. "Patrick Bailey Named to USA Baseball Collegiate National Team". USA Baseball.
  11. Schulman, Henry (June 11, 2020). "Giants' surprise first pick in the 2020 MLB draft: college catcher Patrick Bailey". San Francisco Chronicle.
  12. "Giants sign first-round draft pick Patrick Bailey for $3.8 million". July 2020.
  13. "2020 Minor League Baseball Season Cancelled".
  14. "Giants prospects get Minors assignments". MLB.com.
  15. Lockard, Melissa. "Giants minor-league notebook: Joey Bart plugging holes, Marco Luciano putting together 'next-level' at-bats". The Athletic.
  16. "Giants minor league review: Bailey finds stride for San Jose". RSN.
  17. "Here are the Arizona Fall League rosters". MLB.com.
  18. "Check out the Fall Stars Game rosters". MLB.com.
  19. @EugeneEmeralds (April 6, 2022). "What a sight to behold...The roster is here and it's spectacular! #GoEms" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
  20. "Patrick Bailey Stats, Fantasy & News".
  21. "Here are 2022's MiLB Gold Glove winners". MLB.com.
  22. "Where the Giants' Top 30 prospects are starting season". MLB.com.
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