Brandon Crawford arguably has no short-stop position comparison when professional baseball is mentioned. He is an American athlete who has played for the Major League Baseball (MLB) Giants since his draft in 2011.

His performance during his MLB career was punctuated with phenomenal milestones including three Rawlings Gold Glove Awards (2015-2017) , two Defensive Player Wilson awards, scoring the most hits (seven) in one game in the L Giants franchise history and part of the Giants’ two notable World Series victories.

Highly regarded as one of the best shortstops in MLB history, he is notably the sixth player in MLB history to hit a grand slam in his first major league game, as well as the first stop -short to hitting a grand slam in an MLB playoff game.

Apart from making his big league debut in 2011, he also exchanged marriage vows with his college sweetheart, Jalynne, the same year.

Brandon Crawford’s Bio

Brandon Michael Crawford is originally from San Francisco. He was born on January 21, 1987 in Mountain View, but grew up in Pleasanton after his family moved from Menlo Park when he was in elementary school.

He loved baseball when he was growing up and was a big fan of the San Francisco Giants, where he would play his big league career. Brandon was a tri-sport athlete at Foothill High School, Pleasanton, where he graduated in 2005. He played football, basketball and of course baseball and was the starting quarterback for the Foothill Falcons. Prior to college, he played in the Northwoods League with the Mankato Moondogs amateur baseball team in the summer of 2005.

However, when college time came, he chose baseball over other sports. He majored in physiological sciences at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) and played for the UCLA Bruins from 2006 to 2008, where he was twice named Most Valuable Player (MVP). During his time on the team, he helped them break the school record by leading them to National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) regionals in three consecutive seasons.

Between 2006 and 2007, Brandon Crawford was named team MVP for both seasons, as well as the All-Pac-10 conference team in 2007. He was part of the national team that led the United States for the 2006 World Championship of the International Federation of University Sports (FISU). While in college, he played in 2007 for the Orleans Firebirds summer collegiate baseball team of the Cape Cod Baseball League.

MLB Career

He was selected by the San Francisco Giants in the fourth round, 117th overall in the 2008 League Baseball Draft. After his draft, he played with minor league teams such as the San Jose Advanced Class Giants , the Connecticut Double Defenders and the Richmond Double Flying Squirrels. At the start of the 2011 season, Brandon was the sixth-best prospect in the Giants organization.

He made his league debut on May 27, 2011, against the Milwaukee Brewers after being called up the day before and hitting his grand slam in the third game of the game, making him the sixth player in MLB history to hit. a grand slam in his first match. It also put him in the ranks of fellow giants Bobby Bonds and Brian Dallimore, whose first major League career success was a grand slam.

Brandon hit his second career grand slam and led 5 runs to secure the Giants victory over the Philadelphia Phillies on July 20, 2012. He also helped his team win the 2012 World Series title in a 4-0 win over the Detroit Tigers. Additionally, his shortstop prowess ranks him third in shortstops in the National League (NL) in defensive save at +12 and he wins the Wilson Defensive Player of the Year award.

He continued with his standout performances in The coming years mark his third career and Edinson Vólquez’s first playoff Grand Slam, becoming the first shortstop to hit a Grand Slam in the playoff history of the league. Major League Baseball in 2014. His fourth Grand Slam came in 2015.

In 2015, he reached various career highs and won multiple awards, including six of his career against Mike Leake of the Cincinnati Reds, named MLB All-Star, batted .256 with 21 homers, 84 RBIs, 33 doubles and 130 hits, was the Giants’ first shortstop to lead The team debuted at home since Bill Dahlen in 1905 and won its first Rawlings Gold Glove Award and Silver Slugger Award, the first Giants to win both in the same year since 1997.

Brandon agreed to a contract extension with the Giants through 2021 after the 2015 season for a $75 million deal. He took his batting average to a career-best .275 in 155 games played in 2016 and was honored with the Willie Mac Award alongside teammate Javier López. His second and third Gold Glove Awards came after the 2016 and 2017 seasons.

Widely regarded as one of the best breakpoints in the league, he became the first Giants player since 1991 to score a one-way solo to win a game 1-0 in 2018. The game was against the Colorado Rockies. Batting .300 with ten home runs and 39 RBIs, he was named the starting shortstop for the 2018 MLB All-Star Game.

Family – Sister

Talk about the giants at the shortstopsociety, he was born in a family of 6 and he also has a family of the same number. He was the first of four children and the only son born to Michael and Lynn Crawford alongside his sisters: Amy, Jenna and Kaitlin Crawford.

Brandon Crawford grew up knowing he wanted to play ball, and baseball was for him. He became a huge Giants fan, and his parents, Giants season ticket holders, regularly took him and his younger sisters to fan-related events. His associates also contributed financially to the construction of the AT&T Park which opened in 2000 and bears the inscription engraved on one of the stadium’s brick tiles.

Of all Brandon’s sisters, Amy is the most famous perhaps because she has been married to Houston Astros pitcher Gerrit Cole since November 12, 2016. She was born on January 10, 1989 and was an athlete at UCLA where she met Cole and earned a bachelor’s degree in sociology and social sciences in 2011. She played softball on her junior high and high school teams and helped the Lady Bruins (UCLA) to a national championship in 2010.

Wife – Jalynne Dantzscher, Children

2011 was a watermark year for Brandon Crawford. It wasn’t just his freshman year in MLB, he also bonded with his college sweetheart, Jalynne Dantzscher, the younger sister of Olympic gymnast, Jamie Dantzscher. The duo reunited at UCLA for an initial athlete orientation in 2005.

Jalynne was born next to her identical twin sister, Janelle Leopoldo, on December 26, 1987 in Lancaster, California. She was a competitive gymnast at UCLA before joining Pepperdine University. The couple married in Kona, Hawaii on November 26, 2011.

They have four children: two girls, Braylyn Ann (born December 18, 2012), Jaydyn April (born March 8, 2014) and two boys, Braxton born in 2016 and Bryson Ryder born in June 2018.

Jalynne is active on social media and has over 20,000 followers on Twitter and over 40,000 on Instagram, where she provides her followers with interesting pictures and updates about her lovely family.

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